Product Review: Mid Nite Sleep Aid

Mid Nite sleep aid has two selling points: One, you can take it at any point in the night.  Seems great, doesn't it?  If you take over the counter Dyphenhyramine sleep aids (i.e. Benedryl), it's suggested to go 6 hours between doses.  Wake up in the middle of the night and it's a bad idea to take another one and wake up for work.  Most prescription sleed aids suggest leaving a full 8 hours for sleep; you've got to take it before going to sleep.  Mid Nite says you can take "any time of the night", though it recommends not driving or operating machinery for three hours. 

The second selling point: it's all natural.  In fact, there is no "Drug Facts" label, since Mid Nite is a supplement.  Most of the ingredients are found in food you eat every day.  Also seems like a great idea; for those with frequent sleep problems, you'd rather take a "sleep vitamin" than "drugs".

So, does it work?  I purchased a package, and in my opinion, it was no more effective than just trying to get back to sleep on my own, without taking anything.  I didn't feel any noticeable difference, physically or mentally.  I'll stick with Dyphenhydramine for sleep dififculty and struggle through it if 4 am comes and I'm unable to get back to sleep, until someone finds a product that really does the trick for a middle of the night, short-term sleep aid, even if it's not "all natural".  If there's any positive, the tablets dissolve and taste good...just too pricey to take the place of Sweet Tarts.