Insomnia

[Allie]

Well this is the 4th night that I can't seem to fall asleep. I have been sick for a month, I try to rest as much as I can durring the day, but once noght time comes I'm dead tired and as soon as I get into bed I'm wide awake. So anyone have any suggestions?

[PowerManDL]

Beer.

[Tryska]

kava kava

[syntekz]

I've got the same problem and I haven't found anything to work. I've tried antihistemine(sp) medicines. I've tried sleeping pills and cough syrup. Nothing.

[Allie]

I always try to go to sleep and after an hour or two of just laying there I get up and take some cough syrup and within 40 mins I'm asleep. So as much as I don't want to I think I'm going to just take some before I go to bed.

[syntekz]

Do you take any fat burners? I've been thinking that might be my problem although I only take them once at 8 in the morning and usually try to sleep at around 11PM every night.

[Neil]

ive been having the same problem ever since I started my new diet, 4 or 5 hours a night was all I could get. But then I bought some Kava, knocked me right out, I'd try it if I where you.

[Monkeybrains]

Another thing you could try is drinking lots of chamomile tea.

If its really bad, the doc might prescribe you some weak tranquilizers, but be careful with them, they are bloody addictive.

[little guy]

'awa or Kava Kava is good if you aren't allergic to it. Plus it's a pain to strain it everytime before drinking (the pills and extract are extremely weak). A good natural way would be to meditate. Clearing my mind always seems to help me sleep. I often can't sleep if I'm thinking too much.

[Delphi]

Ambien 10mg on an *occasional* basis

[Shocker]

Are you stressed from the sickness? Even if you dont think so you probably are and ur unconscious mind is working over-time.

Possibly, find some way of tiring yourself out more during the day.

I have recently read that milk has some sleep inducing agents in it - which if true means that Grandma's hot milk before bed time technique could be a winner. Go grandma!

...if that doesn't work move on to the hard stuff...

[pastdoubt]

Hey, I have the same problem, except nothing will put me to sleep, not even normal doses of tranquilizers. Beer and Marijuana (and even Kava Kava in doses that I suspect are probably toxic) don't even do the trick... have been to the doctor for two years, he just now referred me to a psychiatrist. Think of it this way, it's only the fourth day... what would you say to yourself if it were every week Sunday to Thursday, 2 to 4 hours sleep per night, go to school and still workout 3 - 4 times a week. It's hell. And I don't even take fat burners anymore, and drink only water and caffeine free diet coke.

[Chris Rodgers]

Maybe I'm weird, but I could honestly lay down at night and pass out for 12 hours or more every day if I had the time. I can sleep forever.

[SweatHawg]

Naaaaah Doc-not that weakass Ambien! If your gonna get a script, get Temazepam 30mg!! or-2 15mg's and then ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:drooling:

[Monkeybrains]

I used to take a few Diazepam and then sleep for about 16 hours non stop.:D
That is some seriously relaxing ****.

[Reinier]

im the same as latty.
if you dont wake me up ill be sleeping forever.

[Allie]

If anyone cares... I am sleeping better. Although I do have to read for a little bit everynight then I'm just dead tired. Other wise I am usually a "peppy" person, I guess it just takes me some time to relax and unwind at the end of the day. I'm working the whole stress management thing :rolleyes:

[Monkeybrains]

Good, getting your sleeping pattern in a routine and getting plenty of kip should help your stress allot.
I always have to read for quite awhile before I can get to sleep too.

[pr3]

Now that Allie's back to normal, I'm not. I usually get this in cycles. It's back. FOr the past two nights, I haven't SLEPT. I lie in bed, and I can see myself tossing and turning with my eyelids opening off and on.

SOmetimes this happens when I take a nap after work. And usually if I go out until 3 or 4am, I usually can't sleep after that (may as well stay out real late, huh?)

BUt I'm jsut worried that this lack of real, DEEP sleep will affect my muscle growth. I know that natural growth hormone occurs during deep sleep.

Any suggestions, besides what's been said?:confused:

[Cackerot69]

Get the doc to prescribe some "Ambien"...just don't take it for more than a couple days straight or it fooks with your brain.

[Reinier]

i have never had any trouble sleeping. ill sleep in the first minute i hit the bed, always have. is this rare?

[TreeTrunks]

Eat turkey and let the tryptophan(sp?) do the work.

[mr_hand]

sex

[Belial]

Originally posted by TreeTrunks
Eat turkey and let the tryptophan(sp?) do the work.

100 grams of turkey has ~.34 grams of tryptophan, the same as chicken or lean beef, and only slightly more than fish. Thanksgiving dinner tends to make people tired because of the volume of food, the rest is arguable psychosomatic. lol. Turkey doesn't have any soporific properties.

Thank you.

[TreeTrunks]

that makes sense. All the blood goes to the stomach and not the brain. Elementry dear watson. I guess that why my biology professor in college always said its best to take test on an empty stomach b/c of the whole blood going to the brain instead of the stomach.

[Orange357]

red and blue tulenols, lipstick red seconals;)

[Orange357]

or get some exercise and chew some valarium root..