Hi Muji,

Oh so sorry you are being plagued by insomnia. You and i have this affliction in common as you know...

i've heard magnesium can help you too get to sleep...try the powered kind.
i take it during the day for anxiety. Sometimes it helps sometimes it doesn't.

i also highly recommend Dr.Teal's Soothe & Sleep epsom salt and lavender bubble bath.
That stuff often knocks me out.

I hope you will get some other suggestions and some deep peaceful sleep soon, very soon, friend.

Yogic breathing, and not caring that I have insmonia. I play solitaire on the iPad till I pass out, basically. Nogt great, but it does work.

Eventually.

I would talk with your pdoc about giving you something for sleep that won't affect your kidneys Muji

Melatonin can have a rebound affect... Thus it can stop sleep if you take it regularly ... I hope that you can find some relief... xo

Thanks, y'all, for the insomnia help. I had a GREAT night's sleep last night, and today I'm getting to feel how great that is for coping with my PTSD symptoms. Here's wishing good rest to everybody.

HI Muji, there are reports that melatonin increases nightmares because it increases REM sleep, so it allows more time for dreaming/nightmares.

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/melatonin/can-melatonin-cause-nightmares

I no longer take anything since 2010. When I can’t sleep I go through it and when I can sleep I am happier. Sleeping help doesn’t work for me. I have a heavy blanket that helps me to fall sleep

Thanks, Andromeda. That's good to know, since I also take Prazosin for my combat PTSD nightmares. I don't want to counteract that.

rose, the heavy blanket works for me, too, it makes me feel like a baby being swaddled. Nice.

A strong margarita, small fan blowing cool air around me and a weighted blanket. Even then nightmares wake me up on and off. My best sleep comes when I can flip my days to nights. The black out curtains let in just enough light so that when I wake from nightmares I can see well enough, quickly enough that there is no danger and I can drift to sleep.

They have me on 16mg of prazosin that's the top dose plus 1mg klonopin and 8mg rozerem. I do not sleep much at all still due to my pain levels but it used to work great. I am going on 1 hour sleep right now. I hope you get sleep!

I take Prazosin, too, AJ, and it's the first time in years I've had a good experience with a sleep med.

Sorry you're going on 1 hour of sleep! Yikes!

Muji it was working great for me but now the nightmares are slipping thru, although not as bad as a few months ago. I worry though because were 5 weeks away from when i was beaten and raped by an exbf it will be 18 years on june 11th.

Sorry to hear that, AJ, and for some reason last night it didn't work for me for the first time all week. I didn't get to sleep until 3:30am! Fortunately, since it was a Friday night I could sleep in today Saturday, but I'd like to figure it out by tomorrow night Sunday night so I can have a normal Monday.

You can count on me to be with you as June 11th looms large for you, my friend. For me it's Dec. 8th, when that military death squad tortured me when I was a teen on the mission field abroad. Sending you support for rest tonight.