Ideas of things to do when you cannot sleep
Psych's decided to lower the dose of my sleeping pills and eventually take me off of them.
Mind you I've been hooked for about 2 years and last time I just COULD NOT sleep unless I take my sleeping pill (zopiclon).
What do you guys do when you are forced by your mind to stay awake, no matter how tired your body is???
Need a backup plan so that I don't go mental
Ideas of things to do when you cannot sleep
I sleep, but terribly. Sleep is very shallow and dominated by restless, wakeful dreaming. This has been going on for months.
I also have a bad case of nocturia. On a good night i get up three times to drain the snake; on a bad might 6-7. This is clearly a function of BPH - although my PSA number is low normal and scans show only a relatively small physical enlargement of the prostate. The only saving grace of the nocturia is that getting up lets me out of whatever dream is playing and changes the channel.
Talked to my endo about it yesterday. He said that the fundamental problem is the nocturia, so he recommended addressing that first and noting the sleep effect. He wanted me to take Proscar for the prostate, but i waved that off. After thinking about it a bit, he decided on Tamsulosin, which has the added advantage of lowering BP, thus obviating the need to up the dosage of my angiotensin receptor blocker, Cozar.
I took the first dose last night after dinner. Worked great. I didn't have to get up at all, didn't experience any urges and thus got about the only uninterrupted 8 hours of sleep in a year. Dream volume also was dialed down significantly. Will go with the flow for a couple days to see if sleep quality continues to improve. If not. The plan, per doc, is to add a blast of magnesium cit and B6 an hour or so before bed. Mag cit can be had in bulk from Bulk Supplements., direct or via Amazon.
Has anyone else had any experience with Tamulosin? I'd be interested to get additional input.
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Re: Ideas of things to do when you cannot sleep
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markam
Jams? LOL I only play when I get paid. Sad but true:)
Maybe I'll post a link to me playing so you can see how uncool I am :)
I'd be interested in this.
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markam
Any requests:)
Think American songbook.
Anything for the guy in the pink briefs:)
(No homo) LOL
Haha. The guy in the pink briefs may die, but the jokes never will.
Hmm. You've played with a lot of bands... I like some of the late 70s early 80s stuff like Journey, Foreigner, any Sammy Hagar stuff, Van Halen, etc.