What to take for sleep? 
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Hello,
I have been dealing with severe adrenal exhaustion for a long time and one thing that doesn't seem to improve is sleep. I feel much better during the day when I can get a decent night's sleep of at least 8 hours without constantly waking up, but it rarely happens. I've tried all kinds of pharmaceutical meds and natural herbs/hormones. I currently take melatonin 3 mg, but it only gets me to sleep but I end up waking up a couple of times in the middle of the night in horror and in pain and it takes me hours to get back to sleep.
I've tried klonopin, rozerem ( which is basically a melatonin receptor drug which works to regulate circardian rhythm, but it completely knocked me out the next day and made me even weaker). Klonopin helps me to a certain degree not to wake up in the middle of the night too often but I'm afraid of developing tolerance to benzos as I heard it can be hard coming off. I don't take it more than 4 days at a time. Should I avoid benzos all together? I'm kind of running out of options at this point and might decide that it's just worth it to take it in order to REST my body b/c that's what it's really LACKING in order to properly reset my autonomic nervous system and hpa axis. But could benzos potentially destroy my autonomic nervous system and hpa axis further? I'm stuck in a real dilemma.
Any advice and/or recommendations on this would be greatly appreciated.
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- Re: What to take for sleep? Tena Cious
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This is a reply to # 2,150,758I don´t think benzos are the answer. You will be exchanging one problem for another, one that will become apparent with time. Downregulation of GABA receptors and addiction.
I know where you are at. Sleep and digestion are the keys, and sleep is even more important IMO I haven´t found anything that helps much and in fact I am doing just like you, melatonin which puts me to sleep but I wake up several times from the vivid nightmares (without melatonin I wake up nonetheless but without vivid nightmares).
When I sleep better I come back to life so to speak, when I sleep worse I want to die (suicidal thoughts/wishes) and am unable to do almost anything. The difference is that marked. Sleeping is the single most important thing to heal AF.
- Re: What to take for sleep? nyckid10
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This is a reply to # 2,150,786ABSOLUTELY AGREE! There's a reason the body is designed to require sleep. So much essential healing occurs when one is asleep. I am prolly going to stay away from the benzos. I don't want to acquire another problem, I have enough.
I think if I get a couple of months of REAL rest I will finally be able to leave my house without fearing of fainting.
Just gotta figure out how to accomplish this!!- Re: What worked for me InCharge
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This is a reply to # 2,150,839
Been taking Lugol's Iodine, And using this relaxing audio by Jose Silva.
From waking up 4 or 5 times a night to being in a deep sleep all night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxdAR97CbUc
Which one is responsible? Don't have a clue.
- Re: What worked for me Tena Cious
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This is a reply to # 2,150,850Pretty amazing. Very amazing in fact!! How much Lugol´s are you taking? Never experienced detox?
Do anyone else thinks that thyroid could be to blame of some cases of sleep dysfunction?- Re: What worked for me InCharge
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This is a reply to # 2,150,858
I am pretty new to Iodine. There are forums that would be able to answer your questions better.
Two individuals would be "Trapper", and "Grizz" on trappers forum who seem to be pretty knowledgable on the subject.
I wouldn't discount the Jose silva mind exercises. Here's a video explaining how it works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ0Zuye3HPg
- Re: What worked for me Tena Cious
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This is a reply to # 2,150,862I did the Silva breathing for a while, it was a very unsettling experience every time.
That´s strange. You should be able to respond to my questions. I asked how much Lugol´s are you taking and if you experienced detox, because I am in fact familiar with the Iodine forum.- Re: What worked for me InCharge
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Sorry, One verticle drop of 5% Lugols in about 6oz of distilled water.
The first Silva link I gave you wasn't about breathing, although it is important.
The point is that the human body is a universe unto itself, not just flesh. The whole, body and mind has to be nourished to get optimum health. The second link I gave you explains why.
- Re: What worked for me Tena Cious
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- Re: Give feedback either way Klauss
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This is a reply to # 2,150,877High dosage of Iodine may provoke Hashimoto's. Check also for this! Japanese consume a lot of Iodine and have the highest Hashimoto's rate.
Klauss
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- Re: What worked for me Tena Cious
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- Re: What to take for sleep? Tena Cious
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This is a reply to # 2,150,839http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/impact-of-sleep-and-its-dist...
I found once a study that proves that sleep dysfunction causes a shift towards the sympathetic branch of the nervous system. Of course, without proper sleep AF will never be healed, because for many unrefreshing sleep is the cause or one of the causes of AF!
- Re: What worked for me InCharge
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- Re: What to take for sleep? Klauss
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This is a reply to # 2,150,786In the beginning, when AF was bad, I did not know what's going on. Family doctors had no idea. A friend suggested me to go to a homeopath. He said it was AF and gave me some remedies. Some of them were for sleep. They worked. Helped me sleep longer up to 6 am.
Klauss.
p.s. I mentioned before when I was half way through the treatment, I drunk tea with honey and cheese sandwich 1 hr before going to bed. (it was an experiment after reading Dr. Peat articles) It worked. I started eating easy carbs again.
- Re: What to take for sleep? nyckid10
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- Re: What to take for sleep? Sherpa
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This is a reply to # 2,150,758Benzo's are said to be problematic, I would personally avoid.
I stopped waking up in the middle of the night after months of perfect eating and enduring insomina HELL. I just had to ride it out.
Inositol 500mg to 6000mg - start low and go slow - still helps mne get back to sleep when I occasionally awaken in themiddle of the night.
500mg to 1500mg of L-tryptophan is another option that sued to work great back when I had mild AFS. Do not take L-tryptophan with SSRIs
- Re: What to take for sleep? #147592
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This is a reply to # 2,150,758Cannabis is a safe herbal remedy that is a less addictive option than benzos. Certain varieties are very helpful for sleep if consumer approx 1 hour before bed. Cannabis is available by doctor's prescription in 21 states.
- Re: What to take for sleep? aerowallah
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This is a reply to # 2,151,158
Someone pointed out that it's problematic to knock down cortisol, glutamate, histamines until we know why they are elevated.
I upped my olive leaf and switched to lactium (which still has some cortisol lowering effect) and lemon balm. Dumped the PS and adaptogens. Still taking one Kav, TC, `tho will eliminate that next. Slept 10 great nights in the last 12. Neatest thing, tiredness before bedtime now feels "normal". I used to feel super drowsy on all the old pills but with the first anxious thoughts "will this be a bad night?", the drowsy would evaporate and I would be level and alert all night. Now I'm tired the way I felt before AF and I'm asleep as my head hits the pillow. I think the Olive Leaf is elminating inflammation (CRP was 1.6) so there is less elevation of cortisol and glutamate and therefore I don't have to load up on all these other things (PS,theanine,NAC, ashwaganda, HB etc. etc.)that my brain must then rebalance.
When the body is reacting to inflammation by releasing cortisol and your reaction is to take something to knock it down and not address underlying cause, isn't that producing more immune stress?
On a related note -- anyone had root canals????? They alone could be causing the adrenals to work non-stop.
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