Any suggestions to help with chronic inability to sleep?

Phoenix said:
As mentioned above and earlier in the thread, I found a solution that works. No need to feel bad for me. Please notice my responses: TART CHERRY JUICE WORKS FOR ME!:love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love::love::):love:
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I will be trying this for Mr. Robinson. His lack of sleep is starting to affect MY sleep!
 

To help turn my mind off I do some mental exercises. I’m looking for more.

One is a form of self-hypnosis. Too complicated to explain.

One is to count backwards slowly from 300 going down by 3. 300, 297, 294....

Deep breathing & relaxation.

Dull podcasts with the timer set for 30 minutes. It’s a form of white noise.

There’s one I don‘t have the details for. Pick a word. The next word will start with the last letter of the previous word, etc.
 
Is your mind too active? I've just got up after a night of just 3 hours sleep. I've been rearranging my furniture so I've been physically active and feeling tired. However, my mind won't switch off. Forget about the body and concentrate on relaxing your mind. Listening to a relaxation tape does work for me, but, I must be honest, lying in bed is the only time I can really give attention to my thoughts.
 

Mrs. Robinson said:
I will be trying this for Mr. Robinson. His lack of sleep is starting to affect MY sleep!
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Just make sure you get a good brand. With the Dynamic Health Certified Tart Cherry, it is unsweetened juice concentrate. Some of the others have water added. The serving size is 2 tbps. - that is all I need. Then be sure and have him dilute it. Otherwise it can be hard on the innards. One of the ones I tried had a serving size of 8 oz. It takes the 8 oz to work. So while it seemed cheaper, it really isn't.
 
Phoenix said:
Just make sure you get a good brand. With the Dynamic Health Certified Tart Cherry, it is unsweetened juice concentrate. Some of the others have water added. The serving size is 2 tbps. - that is all I need. Then be sure and have him dilute it. Otherwise it can be hard on the innards. One of the ones I tried had a serving size of 8 oz. It takes the 8 oz to work. So while it seemed cheaper, it really isn't.
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Thanks for the tip-I`ll look for that brand. And good to know about diluting it....
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
Thanks for the tip-I`ll look for that brand. And good to know about diluting it....
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I looked up suggestions about taking it online. It has a lot of health benefits. If a person takes a lot of it, it may cause interaction with medications, one place said and to ask your doctor. Well, my doctor doesn't know squat about things like that. So I don't ask him. I just do online search.
 
Jules said:
To help turn my mind off I do some mental exercises. I’m looking for more.

One is a form of self-hypnosis. Too complicated to explain.

One is to count backwards slowly from 300 going down by 3. 300, 297, 294....

Deep breathing & relaxation.

Dull podcasts with the timer set for 30 minutes. It’s a form of white noise.

There’s one I don‘t have the details for. Pick a word. The next word will start with the last letter of the previous word, etc.
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I have a couple of hypnosis sleep MP3s that work well for me. I consider myself fortunate, since many folks I have told about this, say these won't work for them.

Tony
 
Each of us has a set of physical needs. What works for one may or may not work for another. It's good when we find something that does, as long as it does not have other negative side effects. :)
 
Robert59 said:
My bi-polar girlfriend has a big problem about sleeping because of her mental condition which makes her not sleep at all some nights.
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You might just start referring to her as your girlfriend. It’s kind of like my saying my PTSD husband, all the time. It is, in my opinion, not necessary to point out a person‘s mental health status all the time.
 
Magnesium - 200 mg to 350 mg...at night. Our bodies need magnesium as we age. Its a very important mineral and really is sleep promoting. Both hub and I take it and trust me, no trouble falling asleep.
 
Liberty said:
Magnesium - 200 mg to 350 mg...at night. Our bodies need magnesium as we age. Its a very important mineral and really is sleep promoting. Both hub and I take it and trust me, no trouble falling asleep.
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I take 800mg a day and sometimes have to take 1200 depending on blood tests results. Let me share how important magnesium is. After being sick, in 2018, and hospitalized for 2 weeks I went home and started to shake.

My entire body shook and I thought I had got advanced Parkinson’s. I could barely walk with assistance, could not stand because I shook so badly, and was wheelchair bound. I sat in the wheelchair and my whole body simply shook. Doctor said idk. It was horrific.

Doctor started with basic blood tests which found the problem right away. Too little magnesium. My magnesium still goes low for some reason, but I never forget to take my pills, never.
 
Phoenix said:
For a month now I have now been taking 2 tablespoons of tart cherry juice in milk with my protein powder about an hour before I go to bed. It's helping, a lot. As with any natural ingredient it takes a while for it to fully kick in. But I am now able to sleep in larger segments and I'm getting a lot more sleep. It's still improving. Thank you HazyDavey. :love:
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Phoenix,
Curious, how much milk did you mix with two tablespoons of Tart Cherry Juice? My wife is going to try it....Thanks
 
needshave said:
Phoenix,
Curious, how much milk did you mix with two tablespoons of Tart Cherry Juice? My wife is going to try it....Thanks
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Be sure to get a Tart Cherry Juice where 2 tablespoons is the serving size. Otherwise it does not work as good. The best brand I've tried so far is Dynamic Health Certified Organic Tart Cherry Unsweetened Juice Concentrate. I found it at Puritan Pride online. It seems expensive, but it isn't as bad as it seems, because you take a lot less of it. I really don't know how much you need to dilute it. You can dilute it with water as well. At night about an hour before I go to bed I have 8 oz of milk. I mix in a couple of large dollops of protein powder and
add the cherry juice to that. I have the milk and protein powder to stabilize my blood sugar overnight.:)
 
boliverchadsworth said:
I take a melitonin and 500 mg of niacin before bed get 7 sometimes 8 and half ..up tho for the mandatory potty call dont know if I really have to go or just go so I don't have to be woken up later...one of lifes mysteries I guess..
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Revisiting a thread here...

I am now trying this combination and it seems to work for me. In the past, I had tried melatonin by itself and experienced a sleepy "hangover" the next day, which is a complaint I have read frequently so it isn't just me. I suspect that including the niacin seems to help since I don't get that next day "hangover" thing now. This stuff is just like any vitamin supplement rather than some heavy duty pharmaceutical drug, so I feel better about taking it and it is available most anywhere and not very expensive (unlike various concoctions specifically for sleep such as Zzquil and that sort of thing).

Tony
 
Phoenix said:
Melatonin did squat for me. Over the counter stuff didn't work either. I would not take any prescription a doctor recommended. They don't seem to care about side effects.
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There have been a few in this thread for whom melatonin helped with sleep. We each seem to have different constitutions, and what works for one, may not for another. Neither melatonin nor niacin are prescription drugs, so those of us who wish to try it can simply go to grocery stores that have a pharmacy section that carries common vitamins and supplements or a local pharmacy, or most any other store that carries common vitamins and supplements, and pick these up at quite reasonable prices.

There have been a number of suggestions made in this thread to try. Some, all, or none, might work for you. I am simply reporting that one suggestion made here is working for me.

Tony
 
tbeltrans said:
There have been a few in this thread for whom melatonin helped with sleep. We each seem to have different constitutions, and what works for one, may not for another. Neither melatonin nor niacin are prescription drugs, so those of us who wish to try it can simply go to grocery stores that have a pharmacy section that carries common vitamins and supplements or a local pharmacy, or most any other store that carries common vitamins and supplements, and pick these up at quite reasonable prices.

There have been a number of suggestions made in this thread to try. Some, all, or none, might work for you. I am simply reporting that one suggestion made here is working for me.

Tony
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Agreed. I'm glad it's working for you.:)
 
Someone on this site suggested tart cherry juice.
My husband was having serious insomnia and nothing seemed to work. I passed on this info and for the last month he’s bern sleeping like a baby. It seems to work really well.
Best of luck.
 

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