Sleep Help!!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone taken Valerian Root or Ginseng Root to help them sleep?  Can't sleep since I broke my arm and stop taken pain meds
  What do you take?
                                                                                       Thanks Sue

Sue,
I used to take ESTROVEN  PM.  It has Valerian and black cohosh in it and seemed to work pretty well.

Benadryl is the old standby for me

I use melatonin.   I take 30 mg at bedtime.   It doesn't knock you out, like some sleep meds.   It's a natural product of your body that decreases at my age (probably not at your age, but you might have messed up circadian rhythms b/c of your pain medicines).   It just helps you drift off to sleep when you want to.

I think it works for about 4 hours, so if you hae problems waking up in the night, it might not be the greatest.   I wonder if they have a time release melatonin?

Dennie