Trouble Sleeping?

[JohnRushing]

I'm just setting here getting ready for another long night and was curious if any of you have a problem sleeping and what do you do for it. I usually end up staying awake until 1:30 to 2:00am then finally falling alseep on to have to get up at 5:30am. The rest of my family fall asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow but I end up tossing and turning from the pain in my lower back and legs , plus my brain won't seem to shut down and I end up thinking about everything and anything. I've tried ambien but it makes me groggy the next day and messes with my memory, something I really don't need while going to school. Anyone else have to use ambien? I've tried several other sleep aids but they don't seem to work very well for me, doc says my body has a high tolerance for medication, I knew it did for alcohol but drugs! I don't eat after 5:30pm or drink any kind of caffine all day. I have tried listening to relaxing music, well what some would call relaxing but it just gave me a headache. So any of you have a problem sleeping and if so what do you do to overcome it?

[pavi]

I go to Memorial park and walk the loop, close to three miles usually between 8 and 9. The days tha I miss, I toss and turn all night and usually go to sleep really late.

Forgot to mention that the walking will do wonders for the back pain and leg pain. That is what got me started four years ago.

[mike78628]

Tylenol PM works for me. I can relate with you though. I also try to stay away from late night studying or project work.

[JohnRushing]

There's been nights when I couldn't sllep all night and I would end up riding my bike to the high school track around 4am to walk for about an hour, we only live about 1/2 mile from the track.

Man I can start trying to study anatomy late at night and I can't hardly keep my eye's open, of course once I stop and try to go to sleep I wake up again. Tylenol PM knocks my wife out but it doesn't work on me. Part of the problem is the Hydrocodine I take for the pain, makes me hyper. Sometimes when the pain is really rough I take perkadan (I'm sure I spelled that wrong). It makes me sleepy but it's also a pretty high dose and I ty not to tke it very often so I don't get hooked on it.

Some of the other things I've tried are laing in the hot tub before bedtime, warm milk, erbal tea, sound machine (the thing that makes ocean, rain and wind sounds), aroma candles, stretching, meditation (not my thing), breathing exercises, inversion table, reading, plus other stuff I can't think of.

[Glen_A]

I am usually one of those who fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. However on those nights when I can't seem to sleep, I will take two Benadryl tablets. Not the time release, but the 4 hour ones. Works everytime.

[iCe]

The best melatonin I have found works wonders. I've used all kinds because I'm on the road a lot and motels are hard for me to sleep in... none of them worked. A friend told me about this stuff and it works like a champ... LINK It's expensive but one drop does it for me...

The rest of the site is a little out there... but the melatonin works and that's all I was concerned with...

PS- It tastes like crap but it works

[JohnRushing]

At $38 a bottle it's a cheap price to pay for a good noghts sleep, Thanks Michael ! I'm going to order a bottle first thing in the morning and give it a try. I was taking the ambien every night for about four months but I started noticing my grades slipping and I couldn't concentrait. I would set through lecture class and at the end of class couldn't remember half of what the professor had said. I also started noticing that I had to read a page in my psychology text several time to understand what I had read, and then it would slip away after a few hours, not good when it comes to exam time. I haven't taken any ambien in over a month but now I'm back to not sleeping. Last trip to my doctor I was told that my back hasn't gotten any worse but it also hasn't gotten any better, plus she said I had chronic fatigue to go along with the chronic pain. But hey she said my cholestrol was perfect!

[boxofrocks]

Generic Benadryl helps me.

Also, getting away from my 3 year old who also won't sleep and wakes me up 4 times a night might do the trick for me as well.

[JamesB]

i may have to suggest this to my wife. she has a hard time falling asleep, and then when she does, she wakes up very easily.

James

[boxofrocks]

Originally Posted by mike78628

Tylenol PM works for me. I can relate with you though. I also try to stay away from late night studying or project work.

BTW, Tylenol PM is Tylenol and Benadryl. If you don't have a headache, just take generic Benadryl.

[andiesmith]

reading any textbook i have found works in the past!

[Mike G]

if the melatonin doesn't work try ZMA .. downside is some people get weird dreams from it.

http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/store/e...jsp?id=VS-1859

I use it during times while I'm hitting the gym hard and it works like a charm for me.

[Night Owl]

I could send you a copy of my wife's masters thesis on remote sensing. Snoozefest...

Simply Sleep (by Tylenol) does it for me. The wife takes Benadryl. I have numerous friends who swear by melatonin, though. Good luck.

[darktiger]

JohnRushing, I am in the EXACT situation as you. I am trying to find a solution too. I have tried a lot of things, some work some dont. The ones that work end up working for while before it stops working a few weeks later. I have tried Nyquil, nyquil+melatonin, Benadryl, benadryl+nyquil+melatonin, benadryl+nyquil+melatonin+tylenol PM, sleeping pills, natural stuff, unnatural stuff. If you find something that works I will be interested too.

[JohnRushing]

Thanks everyone, got several new ideas to try.

Stanford if I find anything that works I'll let you, heck I'll let the whole world know! I did pretty good and got to sleep early, early this morning that is, about 1:30am. That's actually a good night for me and today I fell wide awake, with the help of two Red Bulls . Now I just have to stay awake for an anatomy exam at 1:45 today on the skeletal system. The last two exams I let my score slip and I've gone from a low A to a low B so today I need to score a 90 or better. I had a practicle yesterday in lab and scored a 104, got 73 out of 75 questions correct and got two bonus question correct. Missed one joint classifaction and a question on one of the areas of the skull. Hopefully I'll be back up to at least a high B before the end of the semester.