I've always been a night owl ... never been a morning person ... I hate mornings ... I have been able to get up and be successful working at 6am or having class at 7 ... but it's not my first choice ...
Lately I've been having problems sleeping, but what drives me most crazy is that I could sleep until three in the afternoon if I let myself ... but I can't get to sleep at night ... at least not without "help" ...
I hate the idea of being dependent on a pill or even a stiff drink to get me to sleep at night ... and I don't understand exactly what is going on with my body right now. I've always struggled with issues of insomnia, but
this is something I've only dealt with a handful of times ... instead of just not being able to sleep period ... I just can't sleep when I should sleep, when I have the time to sleep ... but then I'm exhausted all day ... could fall asleep at the drop of a hat, but at night, I'm wide awake and full of energy, regardless of how much sleep I've gotten in the last several days ...
I don't want to rely on drugs to sleep, but I may need to for a few nights to maybe adjust my body to where it needs to be again ...
Sunday, September 19, 2010
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Miss Ash · 758 weeks ago
Which was weird to me, since I had been consuming caffeine for, well, since I was a kid.
Nothing _changed_, except maybe ME.
So I quit caffeine altogether. I weaned myself off of it, though, b/c I didn't want to deal w/ headaches & what not. After about four or five months, I started back in on caffeine, but only on that which is in green tea. Now I drink green & black tea a LOT, and the caffeine seems to not bother me anymore.
Anyway, I refused to use sleeping aids and/or alcohol and/or Tylenol PM or whatever. So I found valerian root... it didn't work for me the first ten or so times that I tried it, but I had read you have to build up on it, or something. So I used it for like... two weeks, and eventually it started working. And then I used it for two more weeks just so I could re-set my pattern of going to bed at a reasonable hour. Now I only use it on Sunday afternoons, when I know I've messed up my sleep schedule all weekend AND consumed more caffeine than I ought to have.
Anyway, if you want to try some valerian, I can make you a tea. ;) It smells like dirty socks, and the taste isn't a lot better, but you can acquire a taste for it and sleeping is soooo worth it.
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Barbara Byrem · 758 weeks ago
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