This information is courtesy of acneresearch.org.
If you can’t sleep, focus on improving your melatonin cycle. Human beings evolved to be in daylight when we were awake and complete darkness (aside from starlight) when we are asleep.
This means being up and about during the day, and sleeping in a completely dark room at night. Daytime sunlight suppresses your bodies natural melatonin, which allows it to surge at night. The pineal glands in your brain sense daylight and produce melatonin. Note: you don’t need to be in the sunlight, simply looking at a sky from the shade causes your brain to suppress melatonin production. I would also recommend making sure you are actually in the sunlight for 20-30 minutes/day, so your body produces enough Vitamin D. When they sense nighttime, they suppress melatonin. This instructs your body to go to sleep. Go to bed at the same time every night. Your body will begin producing melatonin at this time. If you change bedtimes, you’ll disrupt your melatonin cycle and risk insomnia.
There is quite a bit of information that links problems with the melatonin cycle to acne, cancer, and other health problems.
You should spend the evening in the dimmest light possible so that your bodies melatonin begins to spike. Indoor lighting does not suppress melatonin, which prevents your melatonin from spiking in the evenings. It is this melatonin spike which puts you to sleep.
Get the LOWEST dose of ambien available. Crush 1 prescription pill very fine and seperate into 10 “lines”. Place 1 line into a glass of water. Simply put, if they could prescribe .1mg of ambien, that would be the ideal solution for intolerant users.
Did not drink or take with any other meds, was injured at work that’s why I have trouble sleeping. Ambien made my skin crawl, slept may be two hours off and on at night, with horrible dreams,felt like I was going crazy, glad I found this website and gave meds. back to Drs. not I know I’m not crazy!!!
My doctor prescribed 10mg Ambien 5 years ago after I had surgery and treatment that made restful sleep difficult. I have both the problem of falling asleep and staying asleep, though I don’t take the CR version. I’ve experienced many of the same issues others have reported: extreme hunger within about 30 minutes of taking the pill, crazy behaviors like cooking or cleaning if I take it and don’t go immediately to bed, phone conversations I don’t recall. My routine now is to have a glass of water on the nightstand and the pill bottle in the drawer so I take it ONLY once I’m ready to sleep and in bed. Several weeks ago I decided to wean myself off Ambien, hopefully for good, but I realize I may need to use it again now and then when traveling. The process I’m using is to first cut down from 10mg to 5mg per night and now I’m supplementing 1mg of melatonin about 1 hour before bedtime. This combination has helped so far to provide what seems like more restful sleep as well as less grogginess the next day. I also have one of those Philips light therapy goLight Blu energy lights on my desk that I turn on each morning to resemble sunlight. What I first noticed when I lowered the Ambien dose was a severe headache for about a week. That has since gone away. I’m about to reduce the dose in half again, to 2.5mg, which is a challenge as the pills are so small and splinter even with a new pill splitter. The pharmacist I spoke to yesterday told me that there is no real physical addiction to Ambien, but rather it’s all psychological; that’s what they were taught in school and what the company told them….He also added that the drug is entirely safe and there are no problems if someone takes it as recommended for less than 3 months. I reminded him that I’d been taking it for 5 years, and he just repeated what he’d already said. I smiled, thanked him, and walked away. He heard nothing of what I was asking. My doctor doesn’t have a problem with me taking this drug for perpetuity. Am I the only one in this mix that gets it? Bad things have happened to me as a result of this medication and I want to be free of its shackles. But, only I can do this and I appreciate the comments of others who have posted on this site. Be well and good luck!
I am interest in learning how many ambien’s will i have to take to OD. Will the amount abased on weight, the number of pills or the quality of the pill.
I’d be grateful for any information please.