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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I have to disagree that drugs aren't helpful. I will occasionaly get to a point that even meditation and deep breathing don't work. It feels like I'm so exhausted I just can't sleep.
Even good sleep hygenie isn't always enough and by that point medication is needed. I have a very regular sleep routine, but I was still having problems falling asleep. With things like depression it's impossible to shut your mind off. I would meditate and fall into stage 1 sleep, but because I was depressed and my brain chemicals were out of whack (I'm guessing), I would wake up as soon as I started to drift off into stage 2. Without Ambien, I would have gone months without sleeping. I know that some people abuse it (but it's been that way with all drugs in history and will continue to be), but I use Ambien to get me back onto a sleep cycle when I fall out of mine for whatever reason.
I have to disagree that drugs aren't helpful. I will occasionaly get to a point that even meditation and deep breathing don't work. It feels like I'm so exhausted I just can't sleep.
Even good sleep hygenie isn't always enough and by that point medication is needed. I have a very regular sleep routine, but I was still having problems falling asleep. With things like depression it's impossible to shut your mind off. I would meditate and fall into stage 1 sleep, but because I was depressed and my brain chemicals were out of whack (I'm guessing), I would wake up as soon as I started to drift off into stage 2. Without Ambien, I would have gone months without sleeping. I know that some people abuse it (but it's been that way with all drugs in history and will continue to be), but I use Ambien to get me back onto a sleep cycle when I fall out of mine for whatever reason.
