I have not tips, I would love some. I go down with pills but am up at 2am. Drives me crazy.

Have you tried Melatonin?
I have a friend that had trouble sleeping and she takes it now and sleeps well.

I haven't heard of Melatonin.. I'll have to ask my doctor about that one.

spamula- I do the same thing! I'm like why is this sleeping pill not keeping me sleeping!

It is herbal and OTC.

I use Melatonin and 3 other sleeping pills, multiple of each. I still get up at 3 am, 1:30 am lately. It stinks. So I go to bed at 8-830 to get at least 5 hours even though they suck. who wants to be up at that time of night? They want to try me on Rozeram which is a RX for basically Melatonin. It puts you out fast but does not keep you there.

I also recommend Melatonin.

use Melatonin 3g it really helps and now i use it to fall asleep,
i recommend it

Ambien CR has 2 layers that release once to help you fall asleep, and again to help you stay asleep. It's helped me a ton

I have had problems all my life. It is to long a story for this post but two months ago my wife put a shoe box over the clock radio. When I would wake up I would look at the clock out of habit. Now I can't tell what time it is so I don't have any anixity over time. I get bored and go back to sleep. 45 days so far best I have slepy in years.

I also take melatonin and it does not react with my ritalin

I ll tell you what, I got sort of the same issue. Part of it was the wrong medication, depression meds in combination with ADD meds. In my case Wellbutrin and Adderall, with the doctors recommendation I gave up the wellbutrin and that helped. I think massive exercise can definetly help both of us.

If you choose to take melatonin, take enough to make you sleepy and if you drink at night put a 1mg crushed in juice and when you wake up at 3 have some and it will help you go back to sleep quicker. If you find melatonin doesn't help you, get gogi juice and drink a couple of ounces of that and it will help the melatonin "kick in"

Tried Melatonin longggg before I was diagnosed with ADHD.....
My problem is GETTING to sleep....lost track of time....once I GO to sleep, am knocked out like a rock...
getting up has always been HARD for me.
STILL have to set the TV and two alarms to get up for work...
Adderall keeps me 'up' --- tried Lunesta and that helps..
If I wake up in the middle of the sleep, it's because I am anxious.....

so you might want to think about that, too.....

Sleep for ADHD can be Difficult at best.......

Thanks for all the advice. I got the falling asleep down, by reading at night...I'm going to look into the melatonin for staying a sleep .. now the key is to wake up which is the toughest part! I've seen 'dawn simulator' alarm clocks that look like they might work. Right now I have to have the coffee on delay, set the oven timer, set my alarm, set my cell phone and then have anxiety all night about waking up :/

L-Tryptophan 500mg you can purchase them over the counter at most health/vitamin stores or in some of the super stores
i.e., Walmarl, Target ect.

Set up a daily routine. I would suggest exercising three hours proir to wanting to go to sleep in addition to eating a good meal and a longer than usual shower or bath. God Bless.