Kick my tylenol pm addiction

First of all the commercials for Tylenol Pm say it is not habit forming. I want to know where they are getting their information. I don’t know if I am addicted, all I know is that I have been taking them every night for a while now to help me sleep. Actually I don’t have a problem sleeping, but I am really depressed and I take them so that I will sleep for a long time the next day. I guess this would be a problem. I am going through alot right now and I just don’t want to do anything. The days go by faster if I sleep. I really don’t know what else to say. I guess I have a problem.

I’m basically addicted to anything under the sun I can get my hands on without a prescription, like tylenol p.m., and diet pills, and even vitamins that get you fucked up. I have a problem and I need help. I’m worried about my health, and I’m mostly worried about my mental health because of what I’ve been through. I attempted suicide with tylenol pm twice in the past by overdose and alcohol. It was the most terrifying experience of my entire life, and I hope to never feel like I did during that time. Completely deliriousness, it was like being fucked-up on a complete other level unlike anything. Nothing made sense I had lost all sanity and memory. It was horrifying… Tho I doubt I will ever try an overdose again, I hate that I cannot kick my habit. Sometimes life gets so overwhelming that I just have to fall asleep so that I feel refreshed and with no anxiety. My anxieties kick in mid-day and I just, HAVE to fall asleep or I will either- fall right back into my depression (which I’ve been getting better so I don’t want to go back into my rut), or eat so much food that I fall asleep and feel like absolutely shit when I wake up.
I feel I said too much and I’m so ashamed of anyone knowing the truth. But in my own reality nobody even cares to know so I guess that is why I vent on here.

This was a very important goal for me. I was always very worried about the harms to my health I could be doing by taking so many tylenol pm. I finally have been sleeping without it! I started taking a couple unisom instead of taking 10 tylenol pm, and I have finally been sleeping without ANYTHING! yay!!!!

i have been very worried about the health risks this addiction comes with. I take 8 pills at night. I’ve tried to sleep without them but it is impossible. I’ve been taking them every night for a little under a year. That’s a lot of acetiminophen eating at the liver. Some nights, no matter how much I take I still can’t get to sleep. I get restless leg syndrome once in awhile and I get hungry. Any advice?

I have been taking alot of tylenol pm to help with sleep! Well, I have STOPPED, in the last two days that I haven’t been taking it actually feel like I am in an opiate withdrawl. Why is this? I am having hot flashes, mood swings, and very restless, what will help? Am I going to be okay?

first stop buying them during the next few days sleep will be tough but work through it. after about a week of insomnia and staying up the bedtime will get earlier and earlier, another week or so and you will be on track i found that drinking alot of water during the day and just before bed helped also eating a bit before bed. the first time i had to quit using them i would take 2 or three ibuprofen instead and it semes to help quite a bit but be careful you dont want to become addicted to those as well.

I am a student so many days I have to be up early in the morning and I work 3PM-11PM, you would think that I would be tired after a hectic day and often I feel sleepy but just cannot fall asleep. I lay awake thinking constantly and then at a certain point I feel like I can’t sleep knowing I can only get 3 or 4 hours of sleep so i lay awake worrying about that. I love to sleep, I just cannot sleep when I need to. I need to fall asleep around midnight in order to function but my problem is I can be awake for days without taking something. I take tylenol PM’s everynight to go to sleep. I feel that my dependancy on Tylenol PM has become a real problem.
I also have side affects from it such as I become very hungry about an hour after taking them, I feel a ticklish feeling in my stomach muscles and feel very restless with tossing and turning and restless leg syndrome. Do others experience this?
What do I need to do to stop taking these?
If i dont take them and I fall asleep, its usually around 9AM and if i dont have class I sleep until its time to be at work, so naturally when i get off from work since I slept so late I am up all night again…..

I love the way I can sleep for hours and not wake up when I take tylenol pm. mmm.

I thought i was the only person who was addicted to non-perscription sleep aids

I need to stop using these pills as a crutch. Last year around this time, I couldn’t fall asleep without them. Now, I am down to one a night, on work nights. I’m a terrible insomniac and I just have this fear that I will be staring up at my ceiling every morning at 3am, waiting to surrender to sleep. I’ll try to sleep tonight without one and see how it goes.