Oh Insomnia - i Hate Thee

[Raekwon]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Asprin once a day (not sure if a regular dose counts) is directly correlated with a longer life expectancy.

I'm trying to find the article but it came out the other day saying taking asprin everyday was now found to be bad for you. Wait for a link until then i'm talking out of my ass.

[Azure]

Try ZMA.

Basically a combination of zinc, magnesium and Vitamin B6. It won't make you fall asleep faster, but once you're asleep, it can help you sleep through the night.

I usually just take zinc and magnesium citrate(the good kind) a couple times every week, and it works pretty good. Studies have shown that most people in North America are deficient in both.

[Daradon]

^^^ This is true. Good for heart health too.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Asprin once a day (not sure if a regular dose counts) is directly correlated with a longer life expectancy.

Originally Posted by Raekwon

I'm trying to find the article but it came out the other day saying taking asprin everyday was now found to be bad for you. Wait for a link until then i'm talking out of my ass.

You are both correct. It depends on what risk factors you have for MI/Stroke.

People at risk of MI/stroke live longer on average if they take an aspirin a day.

Healthy people see very little benefit yet very small but significant risks.

[CaptainCrunch]

Good sex is the best cure for insomnia, as long as there's no cuddling afterwards.

In the absence of good sex, probably firing off a couple of kneckle babies

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Good sex is the best cure for insomnia, as long as there's no cuddling afterwards.

In the absence of good sex, probably firing off a couple of kneckle babies

Drain babies or stomach pancakes

[dammage79]

I get insomnia all the time. When it gets to the point where nothing helps. I smoke a joint and I am out. Sleep cycle resets and I am good. And I don't smoke the stuff unless its a bad case of insomnia.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by dammage79

I get insomnia all the time. When it gets to the point where nothing helps. I smoke a joint and I am out. Sleep cycle resets and I am good. And I don't smoke the stuff unless its a bad case of insomnia.

cool. can you buy that at any safeway or shoppers?

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

Just a little bit of pot about 45 min before bed.

Never really got how that helps people that soon before bed. Whenever I did it in the past, tack on about 2.5-3hrs before I'd be able to sleep. But over-all I can see how it'd help doing it sometime that evening.

Lifelong insomniac too, getting worse as I get older. If I don't take a sleeping pill I'll get 4-5hrs tops. I'm just used to it at this point. Kinda sucks, but whatcha gonna do?

[Azure]

Go to a sleep clinic?

[To Be Quite Honest]

Since I've been taking Melatonin I have been sleeping extremely well.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by killer_carlson

I cant sleep more than a few hours at a time for the past 3 months or so. Damn it sucks. It started with a run of 2 of our toddlers waking up and crawling into our bed at night, and kicking and crying which would wake me up. We have stopped this habit, but the waking up hasnt gone away.

Anyone else get insomnia? What are the solutions that worked for you?

Past 3 months? I have been lucky to get no more than 4 hours sleep a night for the past 25 years usually 3 tops. I get an average of 20 hours of sleep during a week. I expect it will kill me young, and I am starting to see the health effects taking it's toll on me now.

Get it in check before there is nothing that will help.

[Dion]

If you can't sleep get out of bed and do something productive to take your mind off the problem of not sleeping. I sometimes pull out my walkman CD player and listen to music to relax me.

Exercise is great for helping you sleep. Try doing a 1/2 hour a day.

Anxiety will cause you not to sleep well.

See a doctor if it presists.

[peter12]

I find not doing anything significantly difficult in your life tends to cure insomnia. I am the worst at sleeping. Third night up in a row.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest

Since I've been taking Melatonin I have been sleeping extremely well.

Nothing against you or anyone else this works for, as I have heard it before and was suggested to me, but have an interesting side note on it.

When this was suggested to me years ago and I tried it I noticed I started having a lot more nightmares than usual when I did sleep. I think it did help me fall asleep a LITTLE more than usual, but the sleep felt more disturbed and sometimes filled with bad dreams.

I talked to the doctor about it and she said to me, 'actually that's a common complaint.' Even about the dream part. Weird, but true. So you never know.

[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Nothing against you or anyone else this works for, as I have heard it before and was suggested to me, but have an interesting side note on it.

When this was suggested to me years ago and I tried it I noticed I started having a lot more nightmares than usual when I did sleep. I think it did help me fall asleep a LITTLE more than usual, but the sleep felt more disturbed and sometimes filled with bad dreams.

I talked to the doctor about it and she said to me, 'actually that's a common complaint.' Even about the dream part. Weird, but true. So you never know.

I've always have weird dreams even as a kid. They are very vivid and, in fact, I've learned to love my nightmares - I challenge them and try to defeat the antagonist. Also they give me great ideas! Weird? Perhaps... So I may not be the expert here to comment about that issue.

I've only been taking them for a month but they are working really well for me.

[Daradon]

I agree with all that dream stuff, I tend to do great writing after weird dreams. I like weird dreams. When I had troubles with nightmares as a kid, I learned to control them as well.

However these dreams were different. It's not really like there is a 'protagonist' to confront or anything like that. Just feelings of dread, paranoia, reduced self worth, etc. However I do seem to be having to deal with increasing sleep apnea and sleep paralysis so there could be more to it.

I just found it didn't work very well for me and when I asked about it, I found my complaints were actually common. I wouldn't have thought that the 'dream' part would as I wouldn't think that which basically amounts to a supplement could affect your brain that deeply.

[Yasa]

Originally Posted by Dion

walkman CD player

I'm afraid I don't know those words.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Take an aspirin occasionally before you go to bed. That'll conk you right out. Not every night because that might eventually kill you . . . . but once in a while.

Don't eat anything after five p.m.

Exercise after work. Go for a run or something. Where some energy off.

Read cheap science fiction or something cheesy in bed for a while, then turn the light out.

Cowperson

Does anyone else feel like a degenerate reading this post. No food after 5pm and no painkillers after a night of drinking wouldn't work for me.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Yasa

I'm afraid I don't know those words.