Diseases & Conditions
Are your medications keeping you up at night?
Many common drugs can make it hard to fall or stay asleep.
It’s 4 a.m., and you can’t sleep. As you lie awake wondering why, consider whether any of your medications could be causing the trouble.
"Medications can interfere with sleep in a number of ways. Some delay sleep onset, which is how long it takes you to fall asleep. Some cause frequent nighttime awakenings or trigger early morning waking. And some medications impair sleep quality or how rested you feel in the morning," says Jennifer Corapi, a psychiatric clinical pharmacist at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Heidi Godman, Executive Editor, Harvard Health Letter
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