I'd encourage you to stick to OTC and only use half doses of diphenhydramine hydrochloride (Benadryl) at first. Drink caffeine only in the morning and maybe early afternoon, however, if you get a good amount of sleep eventually just cut it out altogether. Stop eating food at least 2-3 hours before bedtime which I assume is 12am. Same goes for working out unless you're the type of the people who, after working out/hot shower, crash immediately. Take the pill an hour before desired bedtime. Dim the lights and try reading a book or listen to some soft music. Do this for a week successfully and your body's sleep cycle should eventually reset to sleeping ~12am. If you want faster results, pull an all-nighter and hit the bed before 12am. Your clock will soon catch up to this new time. Just don't ruin it too much on the weekends and for the first 2 weeks stick to going to bed at the same time.
i've always had a ton of trouble keeping any sort of normal sleep cycle, but i started taking melatonin about 6 or 7 months ago and that has worked quite well. i started off taking 1/3 or 1/2 mg but now i've leveled off at 1mg about 2 hours before i want to go to sleep. it certainly doesn't knock me out but it usually gets rid of the nervous energy that keeps me awake and it gets me nice and calm and allows me to drift off to sleep. i remember taking valium for a couple of weeks a few years ago right after i got tinnitus and that was excellent. same thing, didn't knock me out but just made everything ridiculously peaceful. and that was just taking some small tablet and dividing it into halves or quarters. wish i had some of that.
if i smoke pot it would take at least a couple hours before i could go to bed. i always drink coffee in the morning, but i stopped after noon or so - ill end up drinking a couple cups of tea (no caffeine) later in the day/early evening. im the opposite here - i can eat a full meal and go right to sleep. last night, for example, i grilled up a steak at midnight and was asleep a little after 1. have you tried exercising? i always sleep very well if i went for a bike ride that day.
I had chronic problems sleeping. I tired all the melatonin and herbal stuff I could. It would help a little bit for one or two nights, and then back to the insomnia. Finally the doctor gave some trazodone. It's an anti-depressant but I wasn't depressed. It isn't addictive, and it does make you fall asleep and helps you stay asleep all night. After a couple of times of upping the dosage it worked like a charm. Then after a while I didn't even have to take it anymore. It is a prescription drug, but from my own experience it worked great.
Yes, but sometimes it takes a while; and if you don't complete you could have a sore wrist, tricep and shoulder to keep you up.
I have a ridiculously hard time getting relaxed/sleepy enough to actually fall asleep. I take Temazepam with a herbal relax/sleep blend + a melatonin supplement and it's still difficult to fall asleep. Other nights I take the herbal relax/sleep blend + melatonin + 1.5 mg of xanax and it doesn't work too much better. I'm considering adding moderate dosages of alcohol to the regime, lol.
indeed, if you can't go to sleep naturally, i suggest exercising and then going to sleep. or anything natural. whatever you do, stay away from any kind of pills. for they are ALL pretty much chemicals, and are not healthy and can be addictive.
Where do you get melatonin? The only melatonin I use is a med called mid-nite. I took two pills last night as was able to fall asleep. Are there bigger doses of melatonin to buy? Lynus, I use Klonopin myself. I think I could be addicted to it though. But I like it, and I'm thinking about giving up alcohol for a while. I also take zoloft (5 weeks)....and it feels like a placebo to me.
just look in the vitamin/supplement section of a grocery store or walmart and it should be there. i just by the 1 mg pills at HEB or walmart.
Keep in mind melatonin is not a sleeping pill. It help regulates your sleeping pattern. If you go to sleep different times each night, melatonin can make it more difficult to sleep and harder to wake up.
For real? You need something to fall asleep? FAIL. Watch a movie by Woody Allen. That way you learn. I thought Mary Jane had a "munchies" effect on peeps, not a sleepy effect... MoBalls, did you get sleepy last time you mowed my lawn? Tell these people, man, tell'em!
this stuff works. take the 5 mg extra strength from CVS. You dont wake up feeling all groggy and it's not extra hard to get out of bed if you dont devote alot of sleep to it. Oh and it's not dependent.
Absolutely. For the people who have been knocking it, I'd really recommend stepping it up to the 5 mg dose, hell I'll even take two of those if I took a short nap that day. Always knocks me out in a respectable time and I feel great in the morning.
