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[Karmic Pendulum]

Hey girls, this is niece speaking. I should probably change my gender on there too..lol. Here is the problem in a nutshell: I have a horrible time coping with anxiety. I don't sleep. I usually wake up at 6am to get be ready for school, leave for school, go home and eat something (protein+fat most likely due to PCOS) and wait two to three hours before going to the gym. After the gym I come home, do whatever I need to do..I'm usually unable to get tired until about 12-1am, but when I'm lucky I go at 11pm. I end up waking up at 2am and eating something (only partly conscious, something clean, even) and am only able to fall asleep directly after. Sometimes I force myself to go to bed early thinking I'll get tired and I end up waking up 1/2 hr later or being unable to fall asleep till an hour later (or at all). This leads to waking up with the same routine over. See, if I could get my 8 hours of sleep in without having eaten something 2 - 3 before bed (which is the BEST approach with my PCOS and slow metabolism..trust me here.), then I will be perfectly fine for my morning meal, and so on.
I now wake up dizzy, feeling like vomiting, unable to function in class, etc.
The symptoms are BAD. This has been going on for a year.

Point me in the right direction and please don't tell me "to relax." There is nothing to relax about. My doctor won't even perscribe anything for my insulin resistance. Please, help me get some rest.

 

[Sassy69]

What have you tried? I'm not a big fan of using stuff like Nyquil or Excedrin to fall asleep because its like a drugged sleep and you are useless in the morning. Have you tried just plain old diphenhydromine (Nytol, any OTC sleep aid)? After years of havign problems sleeping this stuff actually works. And you wake up just like a normal well-rested morning.

Other herbal stuff is like 5-HTP, Kava Kava (pill or tea).

Script stuff that is fairly minor is Ambien. Harder stuff might be xanax but I wouldn't recommend going there.

 

[musclemom]

For me insomnia has always been a toxicity issue. Avoiding exposure to toxins -- I cannot eat conventional meat or eggs, cannot drink fluoridated water -- eating a clean diet, detoxing (I've been taking Sherry Roger's detox cocktail, do a google search on "detox cocktail" "Sherry Rogers, M.D." and you'll get the recipe) has seemed to help a lot.

But I'm not one to talk, due to emotional distress I've just spent the past two nights sleepless. I've adopted the "if I'm not sleeping, I will rest," I don't toss and turn, I try to remain quiet, almost try to meditate. Sometimes the problem with insomnia isn't that you aren't sleeping at all, it's that you don't go into the deep levels of sleep, so you're almost UNaware of having dosed off ... if you can stay physically and mentally quiet and not get too frustrated you can still "catch some rest."

I know sleep specialists say get out of bed if you can't fall asleep, but I noticed I feel crummier doing that than if I lay there quietly. It's boring, but I don't feel so hungover. I think the get out of bed and do something suggestion works if you have short term insomnia, but you need to develop other coping skills for chonic sleeplessness.

 

[Karmic Pendulum]

For me insomnia has always been a toxicity issue. Avoiding exposure to toxins -- I cannot eat conventional meat or eggs, cannot drink fluoridated water -- eating a clean diet, detoxing (I've been taking Sherry Roger's detox cocktail, do a google search on "detox cocktail" "Sherry Rogers, M.D." and you'll get the recipe) has seemed to help a lot.

But I'm not one to talk, due to emotional distress I've just spent the past two nights sleepless. I've adopted the "if I'm not sleeping, I will rest," I don't toss and turn, I try to remain quiet, almost try to meditate. Sometimes the problem with insomnia isn't that you aren't sleeping at all, it's that you don't go into the deep levels of sleep, so you're almost UNaware of having dosed off ... if you can stay physically and mentally quiet and not get too frustrated you can still "catch some rest."

I know sleep specialists say get out of bed if you can't fall asleep, but I noticed I feel crummier doing that than if I lay there quietly. It's boring, but I don't feel so hungover. I think the get out of bed and do something suggestion works if you have short term insomnia, but you need to develop other coping skills for chonic sleeplessness.