Sleepless in Lawrenceville

Fort: I politely disagree. I have years of experience as a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator. I have seen the damage done by too quickly running for drugs. This include all levels of medical (nursing) and psychiatric care. Granted there have been advances but I have yet to see a sleep aid that didn't have side-effects that were worse. Our usual routine on receive a sub-acute care patient was to re-baseline the drugs. Most patients came with as low as 4 Rx to a high of 15-20. Each was to treat the side-effect of another. Bill: I can see you have a lot of experience and that gives you a unique perspective. BUT I don't take 4-20 Rx drugs simultaneously to counteract each other. :rofl: I would bet that most other posters are reasonably careful about their health too. (Could be wrong of course.) The only medication I am currently on is allergy meds because the spring does not agree with me and I like to breathe. I can't even take NSAIDs because I'm doing prolo. (Although I do agree with Karen that they make me a bit sleepy sometimes!) I've given up my steroids, cocaine, creatine, muscle relaxants, ritalin, adrenaline, valium, coritsone shots, etc. :rofl: I'm just left with caffeine and wine. Ah, it's a dull life. ALSO BUT I didn't say to "quickly run" to a sleep aid. Not a good idea. You should definitely "walk." Plus, I gave a lot of other suggestions and said that, when I had a whacking bad spell of this stuff, I used behavioral therapy to rejigger my body. But let me be clear that if you have a bad case of hormones/chemical stuff run amok (from various causes, including possibly certain nighttime activities), ain't no herbals teas or sailboating gonna get you to sleep.

Fort: I politely disagree. I have years of experience as a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator. I have seen the damage done by too quickly running for drugs. This include all levels of medical (nursing) and psychiatric care. Granted there have been advances but I have yet to see a sleep aid that didn't have side-effects that were worse. Our usual routine on receive a sub-acute care patient was to re-baseline the drugs. Most patients came with as low as 4 Rx to a high of 15-20. Each was to treat the side-effect of another. Bill: I can see you have a lot of experience and that gives you a unique perspective. BUT I don't take 4-20 Rx drugs simultaneously to counteract each other. :rofl: I would bet that most other posters are reasonably careful about their health too. (Could be wrong of course.) The only medication I am currently on is allergy meds because the spring does not agree with me and I like to breathe. I can't even take NSAIDs because I'm doing prolo. (Although I do agree with Karen that they make me a bit sleepy sometimes!) I've given up my steroids, cocaine, creatine, muscle relaxants, ritalin, adrenaline, valium, coritsone shots, etc. :rofl: I'm just left with caffeine and wine. Ah, it's a dull life. ALSO BUT I didn't say to "quickly run" to a sleep aid. Not a good idea. You should definitely "walk." Plus, I gave a lot of other suggestions and said that, when I had a whacking bad spell of this stuff, I used behavioral therapy to rejigger my body. But let me be clear that if you have a bad case of hormones/chemical stuff run amok (from various causes, including possibly certain nighttime activities), ain't no herbals teas or sailboating gonna get you to sleep.