Irwin Naturals Power to Sleep PM – 120 Liquid Soft-Gels – with Melatonin, GABA, Ashwagandha, Valerian Root & L-Theanine – 60 Servings

This is the best non-prescription sleep aid I have ever used.
This is the best non-prescription sleep aid I have ever used. Melatonin alone will help me fall asleep but it won’t help me stay asleep. And it isn’t really expected to because that is not how it works. So I was also taking Diphenhydramine (the active ingredient in Unisom and also Benadryl) to stay asleep. It worked OK but I felt drowsy in the morning.My doctor prescribed Ambien and it worked great. Except that my wife complained because she could have entire conversations with me and I would not remember in the morning that we even talked. Plus, I did a couple of kinda loopy things that I did not remember later. I also got a bit dependent on Ambien after about 2 weeks and found I could not sleep without it.I went to the health food and supplements store to look for a solution there. I looked at GABA, Valerian Root, Lemon Balm extract and other supplements to try to come up with something that might work for me. The practitioner in the store recommended Irwin Natural Power to Sleep PM and I took home a bottle of 60 liquid soft gels.The dosage is 2 of the gel capsules 39 minutes before bedtime. These are the biggest capsules I have ever tried to swallow. They are about an inch long and a quarter inch in diameter. And you have to take two of them. Because they’re soft gels I actually had no problem swallowing them despite my initial trepidation.How did they work? They worked great. They’re a combination of the sleep aid ingredients mentioned above plus other beneficial ingredients. It helps me get drowsy and fall asleep and then it keeps me asleep. No, not as good as Ambien. But better than anything else.I have tried.I used to wake up in the middle of the night and could not get back to sleep for 1 to 2 hours. This made me very tired the next day. This product didn’t keep me from waking up in the middle of the night, but I wasn’t up for long. I may realize I woke up but then I fall back to sleep in minutes. If I wake up enough that I want to try to read to go back to sleep, which used to stretch up to 2 hours, now I am only awake for 5 to 10 minutes before I am so drowsy thar I go back to sleep.Where the experience with Ambien is that I simply fall asleep and the next thing I know it is morning, this product feels a bit heavy and I might wake up in the night a few times but I feel like a heavy blanket or something is holding me heavily into the bed and I don’t feel like I can move or even open my eyes without a lot of effort. Then, in the morning, I wake up just fine and only sometimes experience some mild grogginess.I bought the huge 120 capsule bottle from Amazon and I am very pleased with the delivery and the quality of the product. 10/10 would buy again.

Best sleep stuff for women in 50s
I am 53…one of my girlfriends recommended. I tend to fall asleep but wake up in the night at around 3. This stuff helps me sleep though the night. Never makes me even a bit groggy. It may say to take two? I only take one. The bottle smells disgusting when you open it — like fish. Who cares — take it. Do you want to be sexy or well-rested? Rest trumps sex (and I am kidding…the bottle smells, but you don’t necessarily smell fishy when you take it, though I have never consulted my husband on this….I am so quickly catching my zzzz’s that I don’t have a moment to chat). People who gave it one star have reported that many of the capsules in their bottle open up….yes, that would indeed be disgusting. Maybe that does not bode well for an online purchase (perhaps they burst in transit…but mine were ok and I buy on Amazon). Anyway…however, wherever you get it…nothing “fishy” about it…it’s good stuff!p.s. I am editing my review. The next bottle did not smell as fishy. Think I, too, had a capsule that opened in that first bottle or two. This is much more pleasant. But, fish smell or not…is worth it. I have been taking this for well over a year. I do not take every night…just when I sense that I will need a little extra help sleeping.