Insomnia Support Group

Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...

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bruticus 06/26/2013

One bottle of beer before bed time along with a lot of humus works great. Anyone else tried?

I even woke up in the morning feeling rested and lazy (like how you don't want to get out of bed lazy). It's been a very long time. :)

deleted_user 06/27/2013

Hi Bruticus. Sedatives like alcohol may work to initially induce drowsiness, but most of us experience a stimulating rebound effect when it wears off within a few hours. That can and will disrupt sleep, awakening us in the middle of the night, and potentially leaving any remaining sleep fragmented and unrefreshing.

That's why most sleep experts suggest drinking alcohol before bed in a misguided attempt to help yourself sleep is absolutely one of the worse things you can do.

That said, most of us can enjoy a beer or glass of wine with dinner, providing it's not too close to bedtime, without negatively impacting our sleep.

How's your sleep been otherwise?

deleted_user 06/27/2013

I get the effect sleeptrain just mentioned - I become energized and I'm up until 3 in the morning.

SlayerEnraged 06/29/2013

I don't drink so I don't know but I heard it causes less deep and more fragmented sleep according to my book "No More Sleepless Nights".

deleted_user 07/05/2013

Melatonin and beer help me...to some extent, anyway...

deleted_user 07/05/2013

As ST said, too much before bed usually disrupts sleep later. And most of that is REM sleep. In addition, if you snore and/or have OSA, it will worsen that.

harp

lightbright 07/10/2013

Very interesting about the rebound stimulating effect of alcohol. I wonder what exactly ahppens to cause that. Good info.

bruticus 07/15/2013

Seems to work pretty well. I think beer is safer than ambien.

I tried two bottles of blue moon and that knocked me right out.

bruticus 07/18/2013

Turns out that hummus helps you sleep too. So beer to knock you out and hummus to keep you sleeping.

All natural ingredients for better sleep!

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