So true, when deployed aboard the Coral Sea our berthing was under #3 arresting wire. Loud but your body adjust and you sleep like a baby.Hey, in my 20s, I was sleeping in my state room under CAT 3.
Age matters. Big time.
So true, when deployed aboard the Coral Sea our berthing was under #3 arresting wire. Loud but your body adjust and you sleep like a baby.Hey, in my 20s, I was sleeping in my state room under CAT 3.
Age matters. Big time.
My vote is to try the melatonin first, I only need 1mg so far. You can buy the liquid or cut the pills to find what the proper level is for you.Melatonin works very well. 5-10mg is a typical dose. One popular brand that starts with N and ends in -trol has a time release version that is very good. Half gets released right away, the other half later on.
The trick with melatonin is to take it about 90 minutes before you go to bed.
My wife bought me the 6 volume set of Winston Churchill's WWII books, beginning with "The Gathering Storm". They're very well written as he won the Nobel Prize for Literature just about then.I'm doing the things in your second sentence (though I'm finding it hard to read paper books that I haven't already read -- my local libraries are still hiding from the Big Hysteria, and if I want new stuff to read, I have to buy it).
You cannot turn off your thoughts.Turning off your thoughts may be very difficult.
sleep deprivation is no joke. That being said maybe you should see a sleep specialist and have a sleep study done. OTC stuff may work but there are other methods to help, asking what others do is not a solution you really need someone that is a trained professional and can help YOU.
But ... but ... I thought you were from Iowa!Stay with me here........
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I guess I am missing the joke.But ... but ... I thought you were from Iowa!
I guess I was making fun of all the flatlanders (myself included!) who allegedly don't think about such things.I guess I am missing the joke.
All we got here is corn and pigs.
3mg is max physiological dose. As you note, more can cause issues. The highest dose I've observed a patient taking is 100mg. No typo. Wild. Yea, they had psych issues on top of physical. No, this was not a medically sound or indicated dosage. OTC be like that.The linked blog post is interesting - the author says that most people take way too much melatonin, due to the pills typically containing way too much of the active ingredient. Executive summary: The optimum dose for most people is 0.3 mg. (I split a 1 mg pill and take half [so about 0.5 mg] several times a week, with good results.) Too high a dose has paradoxical effects; I tried 3 and 5 and maybe 10 mg years and years ago, and experienced poor sleep and crazily vivid dreams.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
There are different kinds of apnea. Central/neurological exists as well as obesity/physical driven.I agree, a sleep study is the only way to approach this. I had many of the same symptoms as the OP, thinking it was stress related. It turns out I had severe sleep apnea and the study showed over 70 apnea events per hour! One CPAP machine later, I'm down to 1-2 apnea events per hour. The difference is literally night and day.
I put off getting a study for years because I didn't want to do it at a lab. My doctor prescribed an at home study and after three nights I send the data recorder to the lab for analysis. Easy-peasy.
Don't think you can't have apnea just because you're in good shape. Anyone can have apnea, genetics, aging, all can contrubute.
Prayer works, but I talk to my friend Jim, Jose, or even my poor friend: on sale $4.99 wine.When my mide was running like a hampster running in a wheel cage until 2 AM, finally said out loud "I can't do this God, Please take it from me"
I turn off the toughts that keep me from sleeping. I learned how to do that. I simply change my focus. I think of surfing. Meditation doesn't work for me and it has never appealed to me. What about holding your breath until you pass out? Does that count as sleep?You cannot turn off your thoughts.
There was a club in Britain where the initiation rite was to sit in a corner and not think of a white bear. Just try. You can't do it. That white bear constantly invades your thoughts.
And that's why you have to concentrate on your breathing as you're going to sleep. The idea is to distract your brain - by thinking about something very bland - breathing: in, out (slowly, slowly) in, out ... concentrate on your breathing ..... in, out (slowly, slowly) in, out, etc.
Surfing would be good. Holding your breath, not so much.I turn off the toughts that keep me from sleeping. I learned how to do that. I simply change my focus. I think of surfing. Meditation doesn't work for me and it has never appealed to me. What about holding your breath until you pass out? Does that count as sleep?
When you go surfing you end up holding your breath a lot. When you come out of the "washing machine" its a great relief.Surfing would be good. Holding your breath, not so much.
Surfing is a killer workout!! After a day of surfing I totally pass out as soon as my head hits the pillow!!When you go surfing you end up holding your breath a lot. When you come out of the "washing machine" its a great relief.