I had never taken a sleeping pill until just this week. A heat wave hit SF, and I was going on three nights without sleeping at all (too hot and too uncomfortable), and I could feel myself starting to break down a bit.

So I took a Unisom and knocked myself out. I slept like a baby for 9 hours, and while I woke up feeling groggy, as soon as I had my coffee I was back in business, feeling far better than I had the previous few days.

Knocks me out like an elephant on a tranquilizer. 

I've been an insomniac since my early 20's, and for a long time was taking Tylenol PM. A friend of mine, who was more versed in pharmaceuticals than I was at the time, asked me, "Why are you taking something with pain medication in it if all you're trying to do is fall asleep?" He recommended ShopRite's sleep-medication, which was cheap and worked without excess chemicals that I really didn't need to be taking (although the Tylenol PM did come in handy if I had been drinking heavily). I used the ShopRite brand for awhile but they soon discontinued it (at least it was no longer available in the ShopRite I patronized). Again, I turned to my friend, who next recommended Unisom to me-- "The blue pill, not the Gel-Caps." For me, it has worked. Let me caution the unwary consumer, though: take it early enough so you can get a full night's sleep. I've made the mistake of taking it fairly late even though it was necessary for me to get up early the next morning, and I felt like an absolute zombie the next day. Recently, I've been trying to wean myself off of the Unisom, and am down to taking half a pill a night, which works fine for me at this point. Some time in the near future, I'd like to stop taking it entirely. But, of all the sleep medications I've tried over the years--- and I've tried most of them--- Unisom has worked the best.

I'm a chronic insomniac and have tried Sominex and Simply Sleep but this stuff works the best for me. I've only used it for 2 days but have slept at least 8 hours each of those nights, which for me is about 3 hours longer than usual.

I hate Unisom. Yes it made me tired but I kept on waking up randomly in the night like atleast 5 or 6 times. I thought maybe it was just me and not the pill ut my father tired it and had the same problem.

After 3 nights of little sleep decided to try a sleep aid for first time Unisom did not do much for me but since it appears to act differently on different people...I suppose it's worth a try. Will try a valeria/melotonin combo next

Unisom worked REALLY well for me and still does. But, when combining it with Melatonin, the effects were not as great.

I have only taken one other kind of sleep aid, but with Unisom I feel asleep with no problem. So much so, I became addicted to them ( not to mention I was going through depression) so that was the reson why I was taking them all the time to sleep.

i think unisom started my sleeping problems. it was an over the counter medication and was popularly advertised in the late 1990s in the Philppines but has since been removed/recalled. i remember taking half at first everytime i needed to catch up on sleep and it worked for a few months. later, i had to take a whole tablet and then after sometime, it just didnt work anymore. i tried combining it with melatonin and nothing happened. i just felt really groggy and heavy in the morning from lack of sleep for the longest time.

I like Unisom - the one with the active ingredient - Doxylamine. I find that a half tablet (they score them to make them easy to break in half) is just right. If I take them for more than 2 nights in a row though they seem to lost their potency, so I vary the sleep aids I take to avoid taking any one more than 2 nights in a row.