Get Better Sleep And Find Natural Remedies To Cure Insomnia
The retail store I work at is doing an all-night inventory and I’m already feeling tired — very scared I won’t be able to make it till 6am when we finally get to go home and crash. Coffee doesn’t cut it for me.
For you personally, how long does the caffeine buzz (jittery feeling, awakeness, etc) last you before you crash or need another one? Just curious about the caffeine effect on other people.
I get so sleepy its like a tranquilizer when I eat pancakes. I know they syrup has alot of sugar, is it because I crash or is it something else.
Ok so yesterday I was tired so I went up to 7/11 to buy some Red Bull to give me a little boost, and then I’d take advantage of the crash to take a nap. 7/11 is about a 10 minute walk from my house.
I started drinking it on the way home and immediately felt completely exhausted, way more than before….. I kinda walked like I closed my eyes and hit my feet on the edge of the sidewalk to make sure I was going straight.
When I got home I fell asleep, at 3pm, and didn’t wake up until 11pm. I never got any type of boost or anything, and this isn’t the first time this happened.
It’s like caffeine doesn’t give me energy or any type of boost, it just automatically makes me tired.
Any ideas why this happens? And how I can NOT feel sleepy?
(I’m somewhat bipolar and have insomnia which is why I’m tired, and no sedatives or ANYTHING I’ve tried for the insomnia has worked, even the stuff my doc prescribed :/)
I am… immune? lol to caffeine and sleeping stuff?
btw I thought about using caffeine to help me sleep, but the thing is once I’ve woken up from it I’m still really tired but I still have insomnia,
it also doesn’t seem to last through the night so I end up online at like 4 AM then exhausted the next day at school
I persistently have problems trying to go to sleep. I don’t watch tv before I go to bed and I avoid caffeine after 4 pm. I either can’t sleep til really late, like 3 am or so or I crash early and then still can’t wake up in the morning or if I do I’m exhausted.
I wake up with ugly purple bags under my eyes. I’m a young adult (21) but look 30 because of this. Not only that it’s beginning to affect my school schedule. Either I go to class exhausted and rarely feeling rested or I sleep through my alarm.
PLEASE help. I NEED to fix this insomnia problem!! I have a MUCH harder semester coming up this week and an exam this Monday…if I sleep in on Monday I’ll fail.
What are effective ways to treat this problem? I already have an eye mask but what else can I try? ie. techniques, drinks, etc
If I had an apple for breakfast (and I’ve heard apples have more caffeine than coffee), would it give me an energy boost and then a crash later on in the day? Also, does caffeine make it harder to concentrate, focus, and stay still?
So I was pretty much born with insomnia, if that’s possible. The only time I cried when I was a baby was when my mother tried to put me to bed. Even when I was in early elementary school I would be up until 2 a.m. before sleeping, and then have to wake up and go to school exhausted, and then at the end of the school day, I would be completely energized, and I would stay that way until I fell asleep and woke up again. I stay up for like two or three days at a time if I don’t seriously make myself go to sleep. Then I crash and sleep for like 24 hours. I have tried everything I can think of.
Not doing anything 2 hours before bed except reading or relaxing.
Drinking warm milk.
Taking a hot shower.
Exercising during the day
Progressive muscle relaxation
"Counting sheep"
Deep breathing
Visual imagery
Taking Melatonin (I think thats what its called)
and a bunch of other stuff, but I still can’t seem to make myself go to sleep every night, or I just lie down and close my eyes for like 2 hours and nothing happens.
I have a summer college course, and its begins at 9:20 each morning and with my sleeping habits, it’s very hard for me to work with this schedule.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can sleep at night!?
***NOTE**** I have been to a doctor, and they just want to prescribe me sleeping pills which a) my parents don’t approve of and b) my medical insurance doesn’t cover because I’m only 17.
I currently stay up till about 2 every night and then crash until 6:15, then i go to school and come back home and take a nap till about 7 or so, if i manage to not take my nap, how can i make myself fall asleep around 9 or 10, and will this regulate my sleeping pattern? if not, how can i. Thanks 
I haven’t slept well in at least a month. I will go 2-4 days with minimal or minimal or no sleep, and then crash for about 12 hours. I can be physically exhausted, and still unable to sleep. The sleep I do manage to get isn’t restful, and I’m trying to make medication a last resort. I’ve tried music, silence, meditation, vitamins, temperature variations, positions, and even where I sleep, but all to no avail. Do you guys have any other ideas that will help? Thanks in advance!
I’ve always had some problems with sleep..but things have been abnormally bad since I returned from Iraq last summer. I’ll stay awake for 3 – 4 days in a row and then crash for 14 to 16 hours at a time. It’s really annoying…and I know what everyone’s first reaction is going to be, but other than the insomnia itself and maybe a little more jumpiness when I got back, I don’t have any other symptoms of PTSD. I don’t have bad dreams…I don’t have flashbacks…I don’t have anger control issues…I don’t drink or do drugs…I don’t feel overly stressed out…maybe a little depressed, but hell, I was depressed before I went. I just can’t frikkin sleep.
Thanks for the advice dude, but I’ll self medicate with pot the day it becomes legal. Until then, I have a career to think about.
lol…at this point the only "cure" I’ve found so far has been some left over flexeril I had from old injury and a dry martini or two. First, I’m all out of flexeril…and second, it’s not a habit I really want to stay with for obvious reasons. But I’m desperate.
El Duderino, that actually was the effect I went for. Thanks for noticing. I thought it was funny…but that could just be the lack of sleep.
This is a very weird and bad case of insomnia. My problem isn’t getting to sleep, and it never has been. But for some reason, I’m only sleeping 4 hours now.. its been happening for over two weeks. No matter what home remedy I try, after EXACTLY four hours (It’s very spooky how exact this is, folks…) I will wake up, feeling wide awake and physically impossible to fall back asleep.
What is going on in that brain of mine? Am I skipping out on one of sleep’s stages, or are all my stages of sleep being condensed itno a "micro session", I do crash hard so I know the 4 hours a night is not enough, but what the hell is wrong with me?
When I wake up, my mouth is completly dry and I have a very strong need to urinate. Even though I don’t drink anything before bed. I’ve been thinking.. possibly diabetes, I hope not, but at this point, just figuring out the cause of this would be a relief anyway. BTW, I have seen a doctor for this, and got Lunesta, and it didn’t work
