Posted: 9/12/2006 12:30:32 PM EDT
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I work the swing shift and I'm trying to change my sleep pattern, but I cant get to sleep when I get home. I'm stuck staying awake till the early morning. If I go to bed I toss and turn, it sucks. Looking for a natural method. Melatonin or an herbal muscle relaxant. |
Turns out that turkey does not cause drowsiness or sleepiness, it's an urban myth. The "enzyme/compound/whatever" that causes sleepiness and is present in turkey is in such minute amounts that even if you ate a ton, it would not be active in causing sleepiness. The ton of turkey in your stomach might be a problem though. As to asjusting sleep schedules... EXCERCISE. Once I started hitting the gym every two days for the last three years, i've no longer had any problems with sleep and insomnia like i did in the days where I was a computer nerd. I beleive staying up all night on weekends to play online shooting games probably had something to do with my difficulty in achieving regular sleep on the weekdays as well |
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We use it for jet lag. I'm talking shifting from mountain time to UK or Taiwan. I never bother with it when flying to the east coast. 3 to 5 mg 1 or 2 hours before we need to go to sleep & we don't wake up at the wrong time, can actually sleep through the night. Usually only use it the first day or 2 in the new time zone. |
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My doctor told me that for Benadryl to work on an adult, you need minimum 50mg or 2 tablets. I've done this and it has helped me immensely. I also was prescribed Ambien and it was great as well! (for me anyway!) Good luck, after awhile, insomnia is just damn annoying! 
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OMFG.... Ambien fucks me up big time! I go absolutely crazy. If I was on Ambien and you told me to go evade traffic on I-5 I probably would do it.... no kidding. Oh yeah and even if I did it for 2 hours and made it back alive I wouldn't remember ANY of it. Some of the things my roommates got me to do........ oh well nevermind! 
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+1 Melatonin did nothing for me when I worked the noc-shift for 10 years. OTOH, 2 Benadryl tabs knocked me on my ass. Seriously, it works, & clears your sinuses to boot. Take it & be asleep w/in 15 - 30 mins. A small glass of red wine is a pretty good narcoleptic primer, & it doesn't conflict w/ the Benadry, either. |
| It works very well. Just don't use too much of it. Too much can either leave you awake and groggy or can leave you wide awake a few hours after taking it. The secret is to take enough to work but not take too much. The usual 3 microgram pills you see are about 2x as large as a 35 year-old adult needs. If you're younger you need around a 1/3 or less of the pill.z |