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[That1TyGuy]

Hey everyone i just wanted to ask somewhat the same Question as the topic below me, its just that everytime i get off to bed i always find myself back up and either having a snack or going onto the computer...etc, i've tryed most things a normal person would like, changing my pillow, changing sides and all sorts of things. i just wanted to see if anyone else where having a problom (though i alrighty do know note other's post) but i would like to still see some replys thanks for listen guys

[registeroff]

I have found that taking 5-HTP (serotonin precursor to melatonin) along with sublingual Melatonin helps me go to sleep and stay and asleep. Start with 50 mg increments fo 5-HTP until to consistently go to sleep and stay asleep all night. You can take up to a maximum of 300 mg.

[Carlyn]

I know how you feel. You are ready to go to bed for a good nights rest and you hardly get your head on the pillow and bam, you are back up looking for something to occupy your mind. I have taken benadryl and it helps but I still have the sensation that I can't wake up and feel like I am paralyzed and dream that I can't move to get myself out of bed. I hesitate to take something to make me sleep because I still feel all the eerieness. I just seem to need to stay in the present time for now. I don't like the out of control feeling. I know it can only get better. It is just getting to the better part that is a challenge.

[schmb01]

I hear you on the paralysis thing. I did take a benedryl, 25 mg last night, and then, instead of having TV on, which was kind of invading those early dreams and making them worse, I listened to some really soft music, with a low light on. It relaxed me enough to get to sleep. I woke up again, and just turned the TV on really low, on an public TV station and slept fine. I think as jumpy as our brains are right now, and very prone to nightmares, it likely isn't a good idea to fall asleep to any of the CSI shows! I slept well and fairly deeply the rest of the night, and the dreams while vivid, were not nearly as scary.

[serendipity]

I've had bouts of insomnia all of my life, so the topic is not new to me. As I approached menopause and now, years subsequent to that, both my sister and I have difficulty falling/staying asleep. My physician prescribed Trazodone for me. I know....another drug, but this one isn't a central nervous system depressant, and I don't think has the physical addiction concerns like many others. It affects serontonin. I was prescribed 60mg. nightly, but I often cut the pill in half, and do just fine with 30mg. I found Benadryl to produce hangover effects, and cause palpitations when taken long term. Even if you wake up in the middle of the night, and can't get back to sleep, even a teeny amount (say, 15mg) can induce sleep again. Good luck!

[schmb01]

I've had bouts of insomnia all of my life, so the topic is not new to me. As I approached menopause and now, years subsequent to that, both my sister and I have difficulty falling/staying asleep. My physician prescribed Trazodone for me. I know....another drug, but this one isn't a central nervous system depressant, and I don't think has the physical addiction concerns like many others. It affects serontonin. I was prescribed 60mg. nightly, but I often cut the pill in half, and do just fine with 30mg. I found Benadryl to produce hangover effects, and cause palpitations when taken long term. Even if you wake up in the middle of the night, and can't get back to sleep, even a teeny amount (say, 15mg) can induce sleep again. Good luck!

I'm staying away from anything that affects my seratonin levels, since that is what is so screwed up from the Cymbalta. I'm glad it works for you, but I would use caution there. There is another med that others have talked about called Zonegran, but I've not researched that either. I'm at the peri-menopause time of my life, oh joy, so I'm sure insomnia is part of that. My issue is more that my brain is racing all over, and the zapping noise sometimes gets very loud just as I'm dozing off, so, I'm almost afraid to sleep sometimes.

I'm not working due to another medical condition, so I have to say that I am way impressed with those of you that are dealing with this and working at the same time; I know that I don't have the strength to do it. Sometimes it is all I can do to wash dishes or do laundry, how sad is that?

[hopeful]

oh I hear ya, I have been up until 2 and 3 every night, even with OTC sleeping meds. Benedryl worked wonders and seemed to help in AM. I am getting tons done in the anxious night since the zapping and nausea have decreased. praying for you since you are probably up right now. soo sorry to hear you are off work and dealing with this. sometimes going to work and having to focus on something/someone else is my escape and I sit in a wing back chair so I have somethign to hold my head up with the zaps hit. I just hope my clients can't hear the brain zaps or see the sand pour out from my head. lol