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TallyMan
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 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:18 am Post subject: Do you suffer from insomnia? |
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Does anyone have any tips for turning your mind off when it just won't shut down?
How do you turn off all the random rubbish going through your mind so you can sleep? |
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jawbrodt
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:20 am Post subject: |
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Seroquel. 
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TallyMan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| jawbrodt wrote: | | Seroquel. |
I just googled that. It sounds like strong stuff. I'd prefer a none drug solution if there is one. |
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jawbrodt
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^Yeah, it's pretty wicked. I only recommend it for severe applications.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:09 am Post subject: |
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I don't have any tips as my mind won't shut down when I'm trying to sleep, sometimes for hours. 
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MR_BOGAN
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:58 am Post subject: |
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I get really sleepy after I gorge myself with heaps of food.  |
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Mon
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:23 am Post subject: |
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No sorry, I'm suffering from insomnia at the moment.
I'm on my third week with barely any sleep. I've found a glass (or 2) of wine helps, but this could be problematic too  |
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nodice1996
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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try reading something boring, it works for me, reading shuts my mind down and i wont read something boring for 4 hours.
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Trigger11
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I used to **** off before going to bed every night, which would help some of the time. Now I take Lunesta, which can give me 5-6 hours of sleep. Although the Lunesta has been less affective since I got on psych meds. The psych meds made me go to sleep early, but I always wake up by 0200 and can't fall asleep. It's been months since I last got more than 4 hours sleep in one night. I am going to have a sleep study done to see if there is anything else that can be done.
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TallyMan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| nodice1996 wrote: | | try reading something boring, it works for me, reading shuts my mind down and i wont read something boring for 4 hours. |
That is worth a try. I've got a number of very dry, dull and boring computer programming texts I could read.
Someone else suggested listening to some soothing music on an iPod or whatever. That sounds worth a try too. Only trouble is most of my music collection is stimulating not soothing.
I think the insomnia may be ADHD related - the mind too hyperactive to sleep. |
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Hodor
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I would suggest not using sleeping pills. They work for a time, but you will find that you'll need stronger and stronger doses just to be able to fall asleep. People coming off sleeping pills often experience nightmares, which isn't exactly nice.
I have difficulties falling asleep, but I find that reading until you can no longer physically keep your eyelids open is a good, drug-free cure for insomnia. Progressive muscle relaxation might also help for some.
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Where's tim with his one word answer?
I occasionally get a bout of not being able to fall asleep not as quickly as I'd like. That's probably due to too much stuff on my mind or some stimulant just before bed. Normally though I'd say I fall asleep fairly quickly - at least 1/2 hour after my head hits the pillow which is 98% of the time.
Actually, I think that sleeping pills (the Rx kinds or the natural melatonin-based kind) are good to take for a little while. You'll find that if you go to bed every day at midnight, you'll feel sleepy around that time every day. If you take a sleep-aid at the same time every night and go to bed at the same time, you'll find that after you stop taking the sleep-aid, you'll feel sleepy at the time you would have on the medicine.
Don't suffer. Take something but not for too long.
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wisteria
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This is a big problem for me. My mind never shuts down. Sometimes when I try to sleep my mind seems to race faster and have more "noise" than during the day. Sometimes I'll have 2 or more songs playing simultaneously in my brain  . It's a cacophony in there. I'll see flashes of text too, like someone is spinning through microfiche inside my brain, or like a camera is quickly scanning page after page of text (sort of a P.O.V. of a Xerox machine copying a book ).
Does anyone else have the "text" visions?
I can suggest Benadryl... I'm too afraid to try the prescription stuff. |
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SabbraCadabra
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I get it sometimes, but I try to keep as strict as possible about my sleeping patterns. Try to force myself awake at the same time each morning, and I try to make sure that I'm in bed relaxing at least an hour before bedtime. I usually watch Good Eats or something, anything that isn't too exciting...
And if I accidentally stay up too late, I force myself to stick with my regular wake-up time anyway.
Just sucks when I know I have to be up early the next day, because it's hard as crap to get my mind to shut up Maybe I should get sleeping pills for those ocassions.
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syzygyish
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Damnit!
When am I going to get my finger out and 'sticky' this idea?
Back when I was first dx'ed at 39, I went into obsessive Aspy research mode
and found out that a low systemic alkalinity is a major problem, almost an indicator,
for ppl on the spectrum. We're too acid.This causes a lot of problems.
You check yourself with a strip of 'Litmus Paper'.
Lick it (or pee on it, more reliable) and if it turns yellow you are acid.
I take a teaspoon of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and a tablet of Calcium carbonate
every day.I am trying to find potassium bicarbonate to complete the trio.
I initially tried this looking for a non-drug cure for anxiety (no luck )
but was really surprised that that night I got really tired and went to bed early,
went straight to sleep and slept right through!
Try it!
I think this is the 3rd or 4th time I have written about this
and no-one yet has done it.
If anyone does, let me know how you go!
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