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Posted by J Albert Lennox. [old family doc] on March 15, 1998 at 20:05:33:In Reply to: Help me sleep please - bad insomnia? posted by Mary Zimmerman on March 15, 1998 at 17:40:57:
You seem to have been through so many stresses and life-changes that you are fortunate that the sleep problem is the only thing going wrong with your health. This would be a time to look after yourself healthwise to preclude other things coming up.
You seem to be doing all the right things. Keeping off caffeine and sugar and taking hot baths are all excellent. Is the amount of excersise in your life now much, much more than you have been used to? I dog-walk and jog about a mile a day seven days a week, and I find that if I am too carried away with it, I can put my "Endorphins" up so that I can't sleep at night. This makes me cut back a bit on excersise, and I sleep better.
It may not feel like this, but you are probably getting small bursts of REM sleep during the brief times you do sleep and that keeps you in ballance. Then every few nights you will have a period of deeper sleep too, which you do not recognise, but it will, over the long-haul, give you what you need.
I certainly think that when you are established in your new life, with new friends, comfortable quarters and satisfactions from your new career, you should return to your previous good sleep cycle. Personally I do not think that a few sleeping-pills to take the odd one from time to time, might not have been a bad idea. Everyone needs a long term Family-Doc. who knows and trusts you and can give you what you need most at a time like this- Encouragement. I think you're going to do well in the end. Your biggest enemy at the moment is being worried about it. I suggest you keep your money and give the sleep-centre a miss.
- Re: Help me sleep please - bad insomnia? Jim Romeo 3/20/98 (0)
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