Sleeping help please?!
Question: Every night i lie for hours trying to get to sleep does anyone have any tips on how to enduce sleep or used any sleeping tablets/ medicine that they would recommend?
I was told that the doctors wont perscribe sleeping tablets,is this true?
I reguarly exercise and have an active life and eat healthily,i know that stress affects sleep and worrying ect but i cant really change that so any advice would be much appreciated
Thankyou in advance
Answers: Every night i lie for hours trying to get to sleep does anyone have any tips on how to enduce sleep or used any sleeping tablets/ medicine that they would recommend?
I was told that the doctors wont perscribe sleeping tablets,is this true?
I reguarly exercise and have an active life and eat healthily,i know that stress affects sleep and worrying ect but i cant really change that so any advice would be much appreciated
Thankyou in advance
Trouble is the whole package of using sleeping pills is a myth. It takes as little as 3 days to become habituated. From that point on if you try and go without them you sleep less that you did initially. This convinces you that you can't sleep without them, which is true, but only because they have taught your brain to rely on them to switch off.
Overall patients on long term sleeping pills sleep on average only 20 minutes more than they did pre-medication and fall asleep only 12 minutes sooner. Not much of a gain to balanced against a life time time of addiction.
The trick is never to prescribe them in the first place, GPs with good pharmacological knowledge seldom do. Refusing to prescribe may look hard, especially when well meaning relatives insist for example that you prescribe for a grieving widow. Looking at chronic sleeping pill abuse, one of the commonest reasons given for the initial prescription to these silent addicts is in fact a traumatic life event like a bereavement. You really are not doing the patients any favours.
In 25 years of GP practice I have confined sleeping pill prescriptions to 3 patient groups.
1) The terminally ill
2) Patients with psychotic mental illness who require sedation as an adjunct to their other mediation
3) Elderly demented patients in nursing homes.
Beyond these groups I do not even give patients one sleeping pill.
Try looking at some sleep strategies instead.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Sleep-Strategi...
use sleeping and if your mattress is bad get a new one
close your eyes and think of what you wanna do tomorrow or what u want for your bday, its good for working out problems.
or you could call me and ill sleep with u ;)
You could try....
1.Listening to calming music in bed
2.Trying to clear your mind and focus on your breathing
3.Herbal remedies which you can find in most chemists
4.Over the counter tablets such as Nytol one a night.
I have tried all and they have all worked at diff times as I have trouble sleeping. Nytol one a night always give me a good night's sleep before an exam or something but don't use them excessively, they are not for prolongued use.
I'd try all these first before visiting the docs, you don't want to get too reliant on tablets!!!
Cut the caffine at night, but do you feel tired cause i had this problem, sort of.....i don`t need as much sleep as other people i only sleep 4-5 hours, so it`s maybe a case that you go to bed a bit later.
if you drink too much coffee that could effect your sleep, i gave up coffee along time ago coz i had the same problem and now i drink peppermint tea which is caffine free
Lettuce is suppposed to be a soporific. You could try having a lettuce sandwhich before bed with a cup of warm milk.
I have also tried some tablets from Boots. You have to go to the counter to buy them, they are not kept on the shelves. They are called Sleepeeze and come in a blue box and a pink box. I found that the ones in the pink box worked for me.
The other thing to do is make sure you come off the computer and switch the t.v. off an hour before bedtime. Read something instead and that will also help.
Good luck!
I've been an insomniac since I was 11 - you're quite right, doctors won't prescribe sleeping tablets unless they can see a clear cause for the problem. I use over the counter medicines - try the herbal ones to start with, they might work for you (although they didn't for me) alternatively try Nytol or something with similar ingredients.
Close your eyes and imagine a journey to the next town on a bike or even in a car. Each yard has to have at least a minute on it and you must look at every single detail on that road and around you. You will just bore yourself to sleep.
I have a very special method. I think about a very special lady that I had to give up 11 years ago. I think of how I will see her again and how she will receive me and how we progress or otherwise. Sometimes the scene I picture is a bad one but there are so many possibilities that I fall asleep always with her in my thoughts.
If you're waking up refreshed there's no problem and you just need less sleep but if you're unrefreshed try eating lettuce before bed, it has something in it that induces sleep. When you cannot sleep your breathing quickens as in times of stress so try listening to your breathing and try to breath deeper and slower as people do in sleep. I find this works for me and after a few weeks you'll be sleeping like a baby.
Good luck