Insomnia

[CabezaBlanca]

I do 20mg of Melatonin. As soon as I lay down it’s lights out.

[Copanocruisin]

5 mg melatonin for me. I started off with ten, although that made me a little groggy in the am. I cut them in half (5mg), works like a champ. I have been taken them for about 3 months. I quit for a few day and went back to Waking up around 1 am. Just saying…….cC

[miket]

I feel for yall with sleep issues. I have an uncle that can only sleep a couple hrs at a time. No matter what time he goes to sleep, he wakes up after a couple of hrs and cannot go back to sleep. Walks around like a zombie.


I do fear this as I get older, but I still pass out within minutes of laying down. I do wake up earlier now, almost always before the alarm goes off.

[Passafist]

I'm normally a 12-7 sleeper, but when I have issues thc helps a bunch.

Seems I go through phases. Good luck, real weed won't be the popular opinion on this forum, but it works with far less side effects comparatively.

Edit: my insomnia seems to be 100% work related. I can't fall asleep until 2 or 3 on some weekdays, and will pass out at 9pm Friday night on the couch. It's unbelievable.

After 4 separate spinal surgeries the only way I slept was massive amounts of opiates. Then I found THC edibles, if you aren’t tested at work i promise you will sleep better than you have your entire life

[Snowflake Killa]

Ambien or i can't sleep.

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[Huntingfool]

After having a sleep study done years ago my doctor suggested I try Silenor. It is a prescription but not like Ambien and others. It is non habit forming and designed to be taken long term. I take a small dose.

It is not designed to help you go to sleep but rather to keep you asleep. Use to when I woke up during the night I could not go back to sleep. Now if I wake up I fall back asleep - I get 7-8 hours of sleep a night with zero side effects. I suggest looking into it (it takes a week or so after you start taking it to have an effect)
It literally changed my life for the better

[Tbuddyandroby]

I work shift work and have a hard time sleeping at night. I actually slept better during the day. I did a sleep study and was diagnosed with sleep apnea. I have been using a CPAP machine for about 2 weeks, and I can tell a huge difference! I used to wake up Tired and be groggy most of the day. Now, I feel more rested. My wife also benefits because I don't snore anymore...

[Throwin Darts]

I fought with sleep issues for a long time. I now get great sleep but it takes a lot of work.

Black out curtains and cover all light.
Temp low and cold
Don’t keep your phone next to the bed. I charge mine overnight in the other room
I eat dinner early. 5:30 - 6
I stay on a schedule for when I go to sleep
No tv or electronics for at least an hour before sleep
Heavy dose of cardio exercise every morning, not in the evening

I sleep with a Garmin Fenix on and it measures all my sleep stats including restlessness, time awake, heart rate, pulse ox, etc. I pay attention to it religiously. The number 1 thing that will lead to bad sleep for me is alcohol. My “sleep score” is usually anywhere from 88 - 94 out of a 100 on the Garmin app. If I have two cocktails or more it drops to about 20 out of 100.

[hoythunter02]

Ambien or i can't sleep.

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Same bro.


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[WItoTX]

Lot's of exercise, eat right (Pasta, tomato sauce, and ice cream ruin sleep for me), and have a proper diet. I mean proper diet in the sense of know how your own body reacts to food. Some folks need a keto diet, others high in carbs to sleep, others some mix. Only you can figure out which it is. Make a list of what you ate at dinner, what time, and how you slept. That includes snacks after dinner.

Stay away from alcohol. If a person is drinking to go to sleep, they aren't "sleeping", just passed out. Which is why they wake back up in the middle of the night, when the body has burned all the alcohol out. And why a person still wakes up tired.

Good luck, sleep is the one thing I cannot go without. I feel for you OP, it's no fun not getting enough sleep.

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

I cannot do the whole turn all the lights and tv off and lay down to sleep. Just can't. I fall asleep best when not trying to. Sitting on the couch watching tv, playing on phone. I also eat late.

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[jshouse]

some great info here. i feel like melatonin helps me as well and i dont take very much, i think its 5mg. i dont really feel like it makes me go to sleep as much as it keeps me asleep through the night. and makes me have wild azz dreams.

my brother is a big dude, 6'5" 240-250, and one of his 4yo sons 1.5mg melatonin gummies knock him out.

OP, maybe try backing it down to 5 or 10mg and no alcohol and see what happens.

[MadHatter]

I cannot do the whole turn all the lights and tv off and lay down to sleep. Just can't. I fall asleep best when not trying to. Sitting on the couch watching tv, playing on phone. I also eat late.

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Same, if it isn't noisy, I'm not going to sleep.
When it's quiet I just toss and turn, brain going 100mph.

[Dr. Evil]

I read for 30-40 minutes before turning in. Takes my mind off reality.

[WItoTX]

Same, if it isn't noisy, I'm not going to sleep.
When it's quiet I just toss and turn, brain going 100mph.

LOL, same here. I always put earbuds in and listen to some non-nonsensical sit-com like Seinfeld. The hard part is not laughing.