sleeping pill risk

It's all over our news today (england) that most sleeping pills, all the ones with z in name and over the counter antihistemine sleeping aids can cause premAture death, but they say do not panic?!?!
I'm on the fence.
Thoughts?

Wow, I didn't know that. I took Zyrtec a week ago and because it didn't work, I bought sleeping pills, which contain the antihistamine Diphenhydraminhydrochlorid, yesterday.
They also didn't bring me to sleep, so I decided better to lay awake in my bed with no pills, than take the risk of whatever, that doesn't work for me.

if they study something long and hard enough im sure there will always be bad points, but you do take the risk,or is it just the news making a story out of sometthing minimal x

Yikes! I was just prescribed and started taking zopiclone on Saturday. I will have to look that up! I needed some kind of medicated relief - nothing was working and I was averaging only two hours sleep a night. Nothing I had read so far made me too worried about it. Hmm.

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Originally Posted by Housito Wow, I didn't know that. I took Zyrtec a week ago and because it didn't work, I bought sleeping pills, which contain the antihistamine Diphenhydraminhydrochlorid, yesterday. They also didn't bring me to sleep, so I decided better to lay awake in my bed with no pills, than take the risk of whatever, that doesn't work for me.

Melatonin works great, we produce it naturally in our brain

There probably is a link, but I would think that short term use, the risk would be minimal. It was in our news today too (Australia).

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Originally Posted by Nicole J Melatonin works great, we produce it naturally in our brain

I know it from American Health Stores but melatonin isn't available and also not allowed in Germany :-/
But thanks a lot for the advice. Maybe I should try to eat a huge amount of bananas before I go to bed. They contain melatonin as far as I know ;-)