I have a very hard time falling asleep and staying asleep. Benadryl makes me hyper and paranoid. Trazadone a seroquil made me feel drunk-ish but did nothing towards knocking me out. Left towards my own devices I will sleep about 2-3 hours per night. Ambien works pretty consistently to give me about 6 hours of sleep per night but I have to remember to take it early enough. It is what I currently have a prescription for, although I fear it is going to be taken away. I often have an inverse reaction to meds, ie, sedatives making me hyper/anxious, so it is nice to find a sleep med that makes me actually sleepy. I think my fear of being drugged may be overriding the drug effect in some cases, leaving me in "flight" mode, and in other cases, it may just be my metabolism or something, causing the drug to act in an undesireable fashion.