I don't mean to be nosy, but I've now read quite a few references to Ambien CR and insomnia. Is it a big problem among posters? How do you combat insomina or sleep deprivation during meets and training and life? I'm not a big sleeper myself in terms of # hours, but I seem to know a lot of folks suffering from insomnia. Some are resigned to their fate; others are unhappy. What gives?
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Hormonal flucuations in MEN and women can change or challenge our sleep cycles through out life. Please do not spam me for that comment as all gender's hormonal cycles vary with the stage of life they are in. That is another topic and why I capitalized the word men.
Sleep clinics can benefit people but they take work. Insomina can be a symptom of other problems and those problems need to be ruled out as the cause of sleep depervation. In the end sleep depervation takes work to over come and there is no easy solution.
Being accepting of YOUR sleep cycle and becoming informed about good sleep habits will go a long way towards helping ones sleep patterns. Everyone of us is unique and worrying about going to sleep will certainly not help our sleep patterns. Pills are not the answer.
Yes, I agree. I have known people (my mother, unfortunately) take valium to sleep. Ugh. That seems like a bad one and very addictive. It's made me very anti-drug.
I am generally accepting that I need and will get less sleep. My wife does seem to suffer from some of the hormonal fluctuations issues more than me, that is the only reason I made that comment. And I truly do not mean to offend anyone here.
The only person I know of that went to a sleep clinic had sleep apnea. Are you sure it would work for insomnia? It seems like a little self-treatment with behavioral therapy and some of the suggestions here would help. What can they do there that you couldn't do yourself?
I completely agree that the very worst thing for sleep is worrying about whether you will sleep. Then it become a self-fulfilling prophecy. And obviously insomnia can be caused by depression and undue stress, as anyone who reads knows.
I still like cold, dark and quiet best.
I see we finally had a sleep bragger. Way to go KNelson!
Hormonal flucuations in MEN and women can change or challenge our sleep cycles through out life. Please do not spam me for that comment as all gender's hormonal cycles vary with the stage of life they are in. That is another topic and why I capitalized the word men.
Sleep clinics can benefit people but they take work. Insomina can be a symptom of other problems and those problems need to be ruled out as the cause of sleep depervation. In the end sleep depervation takes work to over come and there is no easy solution.
Being accepting of YOUR sleep cycle and becoming informed about good sleep habits will go a long way towards helping ones sleep patterns. Everyone of us is unique and worrying about going to sleep will certainly not help our sleep patterns. Pills are not the answer.
Yes, I agree. I have known people (my mother, unfortunately) take valium to sleep. Ugh. That seems like a bad one and very addictive. It's made me very anti-drug.
I am generally accepting that I need and will get less sleep. My wife does seem to suffer from some of the hormonal fluctuations issues more than me, that is the only reason I made that comment. And I truly do not mean to offend anyone here.
The only person I know of that went to a sleep clinic had sleep apnea. Are you sure it would work for insomnia? It seems like a little self-treatment with behavioral therapy and some of the suggestions here would help. What can they do there that you couldn't do yourself?
I completely agree that the very worst thing for sleep is worrying about whether you will sleep. Then it become a self-fulfilling prophecy. And obviously insomnia can be caused by depression and undue stress, as anyone who reads knows.
I still like cold, dark and quiet best.
I see we finally had a sleep bragger. Way to go KNelson!
