re: Can't sleep

Try Aleve pm instead of Tylenol.

Heavy lifting or physical activity (i.e. bjj) 2-3 hours sleep. Add an anti-histamine and/or hot soak if needed.

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Folks who suffer from insomnia sometimes do so because they feel not in control of their own lives. In short, folks don’t sleep because it’s the only threshold in their life they control from their perspective.

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I don't suffer from insomnia, but I will say when I have trouble sleeping now it's because something isn't "right" in my life or there is something I feel like I need to "fix".

Somethings upset me and it's hasn't been resolved, I owe someone an apology, I'm stressed about something out of my control that I need to take a step back from and realize I can only control myself and not the world and others around me.

That tends to help.

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Don't want to take anything with cannabis because of drug testing at work

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Isn’t that crazy. Go to the doctor and get something way more powerful and addictive because work wants it that way?

Are you on any other medication’s? The first line of treatment recommended by all the organizations is what is called CBTI, Cognitive behavioral therapy insomnia. It deals a lot with sleep hygiene, and behaviors associated before sleep. They all have the basic tenants- Get your heart rate up during the day, The bedroom is only for sleep and sex, no screen time 30 minutes or one hour before bed, no food three hours before bed no liquids one hour before bed no stimulants after noon.

If these aren’t working, they have some methods like delayed sleep onset where you deprive yourself of sleep to build up sleep pressure in the next day. Some suggest if you wake up, you get up out of bed and go sit in the living room.

Prescription drugs and antihistamines make most people groggy the next day. Anti-anxiety meds work well and have a short duration, but are only to be used a short period of time because of the addiction potential.

Some over-the-counter supplements can help, but if the antihistamines aren’t touching it then these probably won’t either. Magnesium Of all varieties, but threonate is good. Passion flower, L theanine, gaba. There’s quite a few that stack all these and you can buy in one pill, you just have to make sure that the doses are what you want. Sometimes they’ll be like a 10th of what you really need to have an effect.

I really thought that Louisiana passed a bill that said that employers cannot discriminate against medical cannabis users as long as their roles weren’t safety sensitive like first responders or heavy equipment operators. But I can’t find the bill atm.

I wear these blue light blocking glasses that are orange and look like safety glasses, and I swear they work. They say melatonin does not make you sleepy, but many users report that it does, but may be placebo. They say that it can drop your core temperature which will make you sleepy. That’s another thing that your body must drop. It’s temperature by a couple degrees to fall asleep. If you want to learn more about these things, you can listen to any podcast with Matt Walker or read his book why we sleep.

I have the same problem. My doctor gave me ambien. I take it occasionally to reset the sleep center in the brain. Works great. Make sure you go straight to bed when you take it.

Magnesium

Wife has trouble falling asleep and when she takes magnesium and has some physical activity, she falls asleep quick.

I wake up at 4:15 and workout before work and I fall asleep quick. On weekends I have a little trouble falling asleep because I sleep in and don’t workout