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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Do you ever have trouble waking up in the morning? When you do get up are you tired and groggy for the rest of the day?

What if there was a pill out there that promised to wake you up without an alarm clock and guaranteed you would feel great throughout the rest of the day?

Sound too good to be true? FOX21 News asked the experts.

"Before, you know when I had to get up it would be just a struggle. It would take me, like, a half hour to get up in the first place," Link Oshinski said.

Oshinski said the pills, also known as the Rise and Shine Pill or Wake Up On Time Pill, have changed his life. Before he said he tried numerous alarm clocks to wake up, all to no avail.

"It was really hard getting him up in the mornings for school. It was hard even getting him up on the weekends at 10 or 11 to do anything, he just wanted to sleep all the time," Kim Oshinski, Link's mother said.

Kim Oshinksi said she was the first one to hear about the pills. Skeptical at first, she decided to have Link try them out. The results have been unbelievable, she said.

"If he does not take them, and he did not take them this morning, I will have to shake the bed and pull on his legs for, like, 10 or 15 minutes," Kim Oshinski said.

While the Oshinskis have had luck with the pills, many sleep doctors remain skeptical. They said sleep is more complicated than one might think.

"The biggest thing that I would worry about is if folks feel like they are not ready to wake up in the morning or their sleep is not restorative, you need to make sure there is not a medical problem that is causing you to be excessively sleepy in the morning, or feel like you are not getting a good night's sleep," Dr. Gregory Ruff said.

Ruff, director of the Penrose Saint Francis Sleep Disorder Center, said the main ingredient in the pills is caffeine. He said it is released over time with the largest dose hitting you when it is time to wake up.

Ruff said he would not necessarily recommend the pills to all his patients.

"Medications like these can be used, but you need to be careful because some of these things can have adverse side effects, so if you have heart abnormalities, high blood pressure, seizures, things like that, you need to be careful because it may only aggravate those things," Ruff said.

He said it is important to talk to a health care provider before beginning any kind of medication.

As for Link Oshinski, he said he will continue to take the pills as long as they keep working for him.

"It was a big change. I mean it helped with school and stuff getting up on time, so yeah, they have helped from before when I did not take them," Kim Oshinski said.