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[tfunk]

What is the worst thing that can happen? I mean, they cost 1,500 won, they send you to sleep...

I'm nearly through my first packet and I'm thinking of buying more. I've got a very addictive personality. What could happen?

[Masta_Don]

What are they? They sound over the counter. If so there's next to no worry.

[JMO]

[tfunk]

Sleeping tablets are too good to be true. You take a tablet, two if not sleepy and you wake up after a proper night sleep...you even get dreams...and you're ready for the day.

Is it possible to develop a tolerance to sleeping tablets or are they like alcohol where you don't really develop a tolerance...just a bad memory of how many you took?

That's not Bosco by the way, that's a photo of my dad moments before he passed away.

[Bugmenot]

Sleeping pills are sedatives and can be abused like any other drug and can also be highly addictive, both physically and psychologically. I have a friend who abuses sleeping pills...and she's a doctor, too. Just be careful.

[swetepete]

Probably the worst thing is that you won't be able to sleep without them.
I'm pretty sure the over the counter knockout drops in this country are in the antihistamine family. Check out sedating antihistamines on wikipedia, and see what one you're eating. They each have different side effects.

But google the stuff, or check out wikipedia, and don't take Dr. Nick Swetepete's advice on the specifics. The ingredients should be listed on the side of the box...likely it'll be a chemical name ending in 'mine' or 'ine.'

I like a sleeping tablet now and again myself, but I find they make me kinda groggier and dumber than usual the next day.

[tfunk]

I thought antihistimine tablets were only given in relation to allergic reactions?

[JMO]

Did your dad use to pop out of boxes and scare children as well?

[swetepete]

Antihistamines are a rainbow of fun. There's a million kinds...but yeah, aside from their sleeping tabbiness, they are mostly used to reduce allergic reactions. They're painkillers, too. Strong little monkeys...
I'm pretty sure they're not particularly good for you if you take them all the time, and yes you do build up a tolerance to them.
Sorry to hear about your dad. Looked like he went out in a cheery mood tho, and what more can we ask, really?

[tfunk]

All my friends back home are popping all sorts of pills and going to nightclub. I tried to do the best thing by coming to a country where I could make a decent wage and stay away from drugs. I'd hate to think I came all this way and in a few years time I'll stumble into some Beverly Hills mansion where my friends will all be sipping Champagne:

My Friends: Jolly good of you to stop on by, won't you stay for a spot of tennis.

Me (my eyes heavy and edging towards the large pillbox in my pocket): Good to see you friend, I just have to go into the toilets for a while.

My Friends (suspicious): You're not still doing Charlie are you? We've grown out of that...become mature and sophisticated with families and bookshelves and gardens of our own.

Me (feeling very wakey): No, no, I just feel a bit out of shapes. I'm goanna go to the jacks, gotta relieve the old fella.

My Friends (whispering amongst themselves): Ha, ha. The fool. While we were all partying it up back home, this crazy monkey was babysitting kids in a country half way across the world. We did all the good drugs, but he did all the semi legal politically subsidised drugs from a country subsidised by American military power and chock full of robots.

Me (secretly to bathroom mirror): Ha, ha, but at least I'll sleep tonight.

Whatever..

[swetepete]

Ha, ha! Here's you, all tucked in, so tranked out you don't realize you're about to be eaten by an escaped wildcat.



And here's your hip friends, making a splash at the weekend bash.


F$%@ing posers...my friends are like that too. Ass holes.

[OiGirl]

In the US, I have to take an antihistamine everyday for allergies. At night the antihistamine I take is Benadryl. It makes me so sleepy that I can't take it in the daytime.

[Bugmenot]

[Masta_Don]

When I can't sleep I take 20mg flunitrazepam and a shot of whiskey and I'm good to go. Been working its magic for me for the last 11 years so I think you should go this route OP.

[tfunk]

Actually I'm trying to sleep so I can stop drinking. I don't feel like drinking in the day but at night I feel like drinking so if I pop a few pills before it gets to late then I won't drink too much. What's in your avatar?