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A book on tape gives me something to focus one, where I can keep my eyes shut, plus the rhythm of the language puts me to sleep within a half hour or so as opposed to the hours it usually takes.

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helps you sleep hmmmm. Orgasm.

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What helps You sleep at night
when You are Restless or have had
Insomnia.

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Melatonin. It's a hormone that induces sleep that your body is supposed to produce naturally, but as we age, many of us produce less. It doesn't really "cause" sleep like a drug does, it just helps let the body do what it needs to do to prepare for and fall asleep.

The "PM" drugs work pretty well, the basic sleep-inducing ingredient is basically Benadryl, and I've found that, over time, I build up a tolerance to them. I've taken as many as 5 at once, (dumb! I know! I'm NOT recommending it!) and still been wide awake.

I've used Ambien, it's good, but the effects usually last only about 4 hours. Plus, it's not recommended for long term use.

My doctor gave me an Rx for Lunesta, and for me, it works great! It doesn't make me feel drowsy and loopy like the others do. My mind just calms down, I think, "I'm just going to rest my eyes for a minute", and next thing I know, I'm taking the glasses off and rolling over to sleep. I personally think it's a great drug. I found that it kind of "taught" me to sleep again and I don't need to take them every night anymore.

I hate to recommend more drugs, but depression and anxiety disorders can cause terrible insomnia, speaking once again from experience here. I took a mild anti-anxiety drug called Serzone for about 5 years and I slept great, after having endured about 3 years of horrible insomnia. I finally divorced the main anxiety and insomnia-causing factor in my life and have been much better since.

Now, I find that a melatonin every night before bed, sometimes a couple Tylenol PM's and once in awhile a Lunesta do the trick for me. Forget orgasm (for inducing sleep, anyway!)....I'm one of those weird people who, after the initial dazed afterglow suddenly finds herself full of energy and wide awake.

chymes

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Kyami,

I know you didn't mean offense, and it wasn't taken that way....but I wasn't talking about an occasional night of having trouble falling asleep. I was talking about true, clinical insomnia, where your heart begins racing as soon as the light goes out. Where your hearing becomes so hyper-sensitive that a distant corner of your house settling in the night sounds like a rifle shot. Where thoughts race uncontrollably in your mind like someone's spinning a radio dial through the stations. If someone next door closes a car door, you jump out of your skin and become even more upset because you know you just added another hour onto your "falling asleep" time. You're disgusted because you just can't fall asleep....and you can't get to sleep because you're so disgusted because you can't sleep....and on and on. If a really unpleasant thought pops into your head, like a big test coming up, or an overdrawn check, or trouble on the job, well, there's yet another shot of adrenalin into your system, complete with palpitations, sweating, and more frustration.

All the baths and camomile tea in the world aren't going to combat insomnia like that. Of course, I would hope that anyone experiencing mild insomnia would do the relaxation exercises, have orgasms, hell, have lots of orgasms :), drink warm milk. If that workd for me, I'd definitely be doing it. But it doesn't, and I'm really glad I am able to get help through OTC and Rx means.

And BTW, for some reason, watching the Japanese version of Iron Chef at 11 seems to knock me out, lol. I never make it to the end of the show.

chymes

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ORIGINAL: DesiredLamb

The Healing Garden makes some bath aids(wash, lotion, room spray) for evening time that has chamomile in it .......... I found it at Walmart in the cosmetic section. The name of it is called zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz therapy. It is safe, smells so wonderful and clean and just gently promotes restfullness. sub lisa

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ORIGINAL: windchymes

Kyami,

I know you didn't mean offense, and it wasn't taken that way....but I wasn't talking about an occasional night of having trouble falling asleep. I was talking about true, clinical insomnia, where your heart begins racing as soon as the light goes out. Where your hearing becomes so hyper-sensitive that a distant corner of your house settling in the night sounds like a rifle shot. Where thoughts race uncontrollably in your mind like someone's spinning a radio dial through the stations. If someone next door closes a car door, you jump out of your skin and become even more upset because you know you just added another hour onto your "falling asleep" time. You're disgusted because you just can't fall asleep....and you can't get to sleep because you're so disgusted because you can't sleep....and on and on. If a really unpleasant thought pops into your head, like a big test coming up, or an overdrawn check, or trouble on the job, well, there's yet another shot of adrenalin into your system, complete with palpitations, sweating, and more frustration.

All the baths and camomile tea in the world aren't going to combat insomnia like that. Of course, I would hope that anyone experiencing mild insomnia would do the relaxation exercises, have orgasms, hell, have lots of orgasms :), drink warm milk. If that workd for me, I'd definitely be doing it. But it doesn't, and I'm really glad I am able to get help through OTC and Rx means.

And BTW, for some reason, watching the Japanese version of Iron Chef at 11 seems to knock me out, lol. I never make it to the end of the show.

chymes

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ORIGINAL: KatyLied

In review...

orgasm > walk in cold weather

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I want to get off Perscription drugs altogether.

What about Homeopathic Medicines. Anybody know of any?

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ORIGINAL: windchymes

Hi Kyami and Irishmist,

Yes, you're both absolutely right, mine is definitely caused by anxiety :) It's definitely a clinical sleep disorder....