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BrokenSaint -> RE: Insomnia... (5/14/2009 8:52:11 PM)
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That's why melatonin is my last resort. It's amazing, and has a whole plethora of other benefits, but it is easy to build up a certain tolerance. I do find it does the trick for a few days though, should be great if your problem is more a phase advancement. For me it basically is like rebooting my internal clock. For a few days afterward I find myself getting tired right around when I had taken the pill before. Though it always wanes. Really my easiest time to sleep tends to be around noonish. At night I tend to be wiiiiide awake.
The turkey thing I think was mostly based on tryptophane or something like that. I recall seeing something a ways back, maybe a report, maybe on discovery don't remember, but it basically stated the sleepiness after was more due to holy crap I just ate alot, than anything else.
I wouldn't go the marijuana route myself. After a healthy amount of experimentation during my high school years, while it did do the trick much of the time, it was a weird sleep. Not like regular sleep. That whole spinny feeling while you're going to sleep, and waking up with what amounts to weed hangover a few hours later was awful. Though interestingly enough people observed that was the only time they ever saw me completely still. Most of the time I'm always active, moving around or doing something, even when I'm relaxing. Add marijuana? Still as a stone.
I'd recommend also a fair amount of diagnostics. There's a myriad of things that can actually cause sleeping disorders. Thus leading to a myriad of different ways to alleviate symptoms. Mine they could never make any determination of the cause. Sleep dep eeg's, sleep labs, all basically told me nothing productive, though I did get a few pieces of really odd information out of it, but they didn't help things any.
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