Zopiclone 7.5 mg / 10 mg tablets

Zopiclone usually takes about an hour to work, which is why the label says to take it immediately before getting into bed rather than earlier in the evening. Only take it when you can stay in bed for a full night, roughly 7 to 8 hours - taking it later than intended is the most common reason people feel dazed and impaired the following morning. If you wake in the night, do not take a second tablet. If it consistently fails to help you sleep, tell your prescriber rather than increasing the dose.

No. Do not drink alcohol on any day you take zopiclone. Alcohol increases the sedative effect, and together they can make you sleep so deeply that you do not breathe properly and are very difficult to wake. That combination has caused deaths. The same warning applies to opioid painkillers, benzodiazepines, other sleeping tablets and sedating antihistamines. If you have been drinking, do not take your zopiclone that night - skip the dose and speak to your prescriber if this happens often.

Zopiclone carries a real risk of dependence, and that risk grows with the dose and with how long you take it. Health Canada's monograph says treatment should usually not exceed 7 to 10 consecutive days, and that use beyond 2 to 3 weeks calls for a full reassessment. The NHS puts the practical limit at four weeks, including the time spent reducing the dose. If you have taken it regularly, do not stop suddenly - stopping abruptly can bring on rebound insomnia and withdrawal. Ask your prescriber to plan the ending before you start.

Not for at least 12 hours after your dose, and possibly not at all - the advice depends on your dose and how you respond. Studies behind Health Canada's 2014 safety review found that healthy adults taking 7.5 mg at bedtime can still have reduced vehicle control the next morning, even when they feel alert. Feeling fine is not evidence that you are unimpaired. Driving while impaired is an offence in most jurisdictions regardless of a prescription. Ask your prescriber what applies to you before you plan any early morning driving.

Both are non-benzodiazepine sleeping tablets, often called Z-drugs, and both act on the same receptor system in the brain. They differ chemically, in licensed doses, and in how long they stay in the body, and zopiclone is the one commonly associated with a bitter or metallic taste. Both carry the same core cautions: short-term use only, no alcohol, next-day impairment, and dependence with longer use. Neither is a better choice in general - what suits you depends on your health, your other medicines and your prescriber's judgement.

No. Zopiclone is a prescription-only medicine and is controlled in many countries, and we cannot dispense it without a valid prescription from your licensed prescriber. Anyone offering it without one is operating outside both the law and any safety check. The prescription requirement is what puts a clinician in the loop on dose, duration and interactions with sedating medicines. Send us a valid prescription and our pharmacist reviews it against everything else you take, and will contact you or your prescriber if anything needs clarifying.

We dispense zopiclone as 7.5 mg (14 tabs) and 10 mg (14 tabs). The current price for each pack is shown on this page and again in your cart before you pay, with no membership fee and no tiers. Stock may be branded or generic on any given day, depending on what is in supply; the active ingredient, the strength and the pack size are what the label says either way. What we dispense is set by your prescription rather than by what you select, so if the quantity on your prescription differs from the pack you picked, our pharmacist will contact you before anything is sent.

We dispense only where we are licensed to, and the checkout tells you whether we can ship to your address before you pay. Sleeping tablets are controlled in many countries and cannot lawfully be posted across some borders at all, so the rules differ by destination. If we cannot dispense to your address, nothing is charged. If you are unsure, contact us before placing an order and we will tell you plainly whether your address falls inside our service area.