Back in the early 80's, I was having trouble falling asleep. My Dr. prescribed Halcyon. It worked, but it made me depressed--and I'm not a depressive person. So, I stopped taking it, and the depression lifted after about a week.
Later I read that Halcyon caused a rash of suicides. Now I hear that dentists use it as an anesthetic.
Had one doctor give me antidepressants for ankle pain one time and to "help me sleep" as well. It's a well known one but I forget the damn name. Made me suicidal as well and I quickly got off. Told them they better never write me anything like that again.
Now I'd rather take over the counter sleeping pills for sleep than I would Ambien or anything of the such. Even took Melatonin one time and wont do that again either, crap makes you NOT want to wake up, you think you've only been asleep for 2 hours instead of 10
