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I feel and sleep well with welldorm

I read WDDTY vol 15 no 11 with great interest. Pneumonia is something to be avoided - my wife died of it.

With regard to sleeping pills, I would like to draw your attention to an old-fashioned drug I have been taking for about 20 years, with no apparent ill-effects.

I don’t sleep well, and after a trial with benzodiazepines, which gave me hallucinations, my doctor gave me Welldorm, which contains chloral betaine 707 mg. Chloral is also known as a ‘Mickey Finn’; it is combined with betaine, a useful compound containing methyl groups.

I take two when I go to sleep, count to 100 and seldom reach the end - which means about two minutes. This usually carries me through to 4 am, when I take another to last me until my alarm-clock goes off at 7 am. I’m 93 and don’t suffer from any illnesses. - A.J.S. McMillan, Bristol

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Side effects of sleeping pills - I felt personally involved after reading Vol 5 no 2 (Drug Secrecy), as for 27 years of my life I was on tranquillizers and sleeping pills, and during...

The zs, the newest sleeping pills - The pharmaceutical industry has never quite got it right with mother’s little helpers. The first sleeping pills were barbiturates - and highly addicti...

The zs, the newest sleeping pills - All too dependent - Known collectively as the Z drugs, zopiclone (a cousin of Lunesta), zolpidem (Ambien) and zaleplon (Sonata) have been touted as the non-addictive alte...

Ec restrictions on sleeping pills - The EC's Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products is recommending new prescribing restrictions on seven short acting sleeping pill/tranquillizers,...

Over-the-counter sleeping pills over-the-counter sleeping pills - What to do instead - * Change your sleeping habits. This can correct the problem without the need for drugs. Good sleeping habits include regular sleeping times, a comfort...

Sleeping Pills: Dozy drug regulator finally wakes up over drugs’ dangers - Every sleeping pill prescribed and sold in the USA is about to come with a far stiffer warning of its potential dangers.

My doctor gave me tranks as a teenager - I read your Viewpoint about tranquillisers and children (WDDTY, vol 11 no 7) with despair. ...

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