Insomnia

Recently i've been suffering it alot. Since yesterday i've had a grand total of one hour sleep. I was working before that hour, i then got up and drove 300 miles while generally been active during my travels. I kinda feel tired, but can't really see myself sleeping when i lie down.

For years i've always had a problem sleeping, i'll lie down and it'll be anything between an hour before i can sleep to two hours, if it exceeds two hours i'll go do something around the house until i feel remotely tired, so quite often i'll be awake at 4-5am still trying to sleep.

Pretty frustrating problem to have. Does anyone else here have this problem?

I can't sleep if I'm not completely worn out.

There's only 3 cures I know of.

1) Long days of physical labor
2) Tylonol a few hours before I anticipate going to bed
3) Sex

The first two leave me sore or still tired in the morning & I have a tough time getting out of bed the next day.

1 and 3 all the way. Cut the caffeine too, if you indulge.

Try to think Craig, what has been bothering you?

If you need psychotherapy, go ahead. In my place, we are not common to visit a psychotherapist. I'd learned that in the US, or UK - it's not uncommon.

After that, I'm sure you'd be better.

My way of dealing with sleepless nights is I grab a book, and I read until I'm really dozing off..
Don't attempt to sleep. Just stay awake and do the stuff you enjoy..

Make a glass of milk and drink it before you sleep. Sometimes, when I'm hungry I can't sleep either.

Last not least, manhood urge. Resolve it.

Hope this helps.

Apples are better at keeping you awake than caffeine...

That is a load of crap. I tried it once, did not work and I was miserable all day.

I read that on some crazy facts site or something...

Been recently watching the telly before nodding off. TV here is boring!

Your probably a caffeine addict though grinch

Myself I tend to be up late everynight and up fairly early everyday. Have been like that for the last 11 years so a hard habit for me to break now.

I never quite understood this, but i find the best remedy for me to wake up early is to go to bed very late after having alot to drink. Gets a bit expensive though after a while.

I drink coffee all day long. Does that count?

Join the club. It's 3 p.m. here and I'm on cup #5.

Whoa, i couldn't drink as much coffee as that. I do drink it and would at best drink no more than 2-3 mugs a day. Recently i'll have maybe one every fortnight at the moment. The weather here has been pretty warm and kinda humid, so i tend to drink softdrinks (or water) more.

Up until last week for about 5 months i'd drink at least one or two cans of Diet Red Bull. It wasn't until i realised my car was full of empty cans and a pain in the butt to clear out and i sort of relied on that alot. Got into this bad habit of grabbing a can before i went to work (as i usually pass a store) and always on the way back. Then during the days off i'd buy maybe one or two. One day i never bought a can and had a splitting headache, i then realised that i'd been relying on Red Bull too much as i knew that's why i was suffering from the headaches.

lol I have a bad habit at falling asleep at 4AM and waking up at 2PM the next day

I'm trying to break it before school starts

My problem is that once I crack an eye open, I'm up. Even if it's 4:00 AM. My brain goes, "...must...make...coffee...now..."

Heh.