@evillarreal I hope you won't take anything I suggested as advice. I offer only what I might try experimentally IF I were averse to what was being offered to me professionally....which I am not. I do advise, though, that you carefully interpret the reservations of the pharmacist. He/she may be onto something. I had a pharmacist caution me about taking zopiclone as prescribed by my family physician when I had problems sleeping in the days following an angiogram in preparation for a catheter ablation of my pulmonary veins to stop atrial fibrillation. Both events, the angiogram and the ablation, left me in half-sleep some of the time at night. The pharmacist leaned over close and in a low voice said, 'Does your physician know you have sleep apnea?' I leaned closer still, and in a low voice said, 'Yes.' 'We don't normally see such prescriptions for apneic patients, so would you consider taking half the recommended dose?' I said I would agree to that, and did so the first night taking the zopiclone. It worked rather well, and I went back to my GP and told him of what I had learned experientially. He approved because he is averse to prescribing any sleep aids....if he can help it..., and was glad I was getting by with just half his prescribed dose. It wasn't a week before I was fine and stopped taking any more of it.