What types have strategies have people used to help improve sleeping issues. (
This does not include medication, surgery and other medical treatment)

Other than taking way too many sleeping OTC pills, and even beer sometimes (not a regular thing, but it does help, unfortunately), I can offer you nothing. I got NO sleep last night. Which is way too common for me. I sleep little to none at least 10% of all nights. I laid in bed 9 hours. and after the day I had, bad migraine, vomiting, soreness... that (sleep) was what I sorely needed. If it were not for the H part of my adhd I would have been dead on my feet. Yet I got a lot done today. My psychitrist seems to care a lot but accepts my sleep disorders as part of me. I know this is a little of thread topic, but does anyone else take ambien or any other perscription meds? I'm desperate. Should I push it? I hate to make myself look like I'm using her for meds. I feel guilty even going as it is :(

Straterra is my main source of proper sleep schedule. Whatever is in that drug, it activates the part of my brain that understands it is evening time and time to get tired and slow down. Without the Straterra, I'm back to the all nighter monster that I am! With it, I am on a normal schedule, and it does not seem to matter what time of day I take the Straterra. The drug effects the frontal lobe activities I think, so I am assuming the frontal lobe is also controlling energy, wakefulness, sleep habits and schedules. I'm also having a good enough sense of time on Straterra that I am on time to most things. Without it, my sense of time diminishes, and 5 minutes in my mind is really 2 hours. I look at the clock one minute and its 3 oclock, the next minute its 430...happens all the time without Stratterra, happens much less often with Strattera and not to the same degree.

Funny thing is only 40 mg per day gives me this pos benefit, but 25 mg does not give it to me. The recommended doses are in the 80-100 mg per day so I'm glad 40 does the trick. But 40 mg still gives me soem prostate issues, so I'm working on how to work that out.

Jon
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What types have strategies have people used to help improve sleeping issues. (
This does not include medication, surgery and other medical treatment)

Something that's worked for me is staying out of my bedroom until I am absolutely ready to go to bed. Subconsciously, I shift gears into sleep mode much easier now.

I try to walk until I feel tired. I read to get my mind off all the crap I deal with daily and sometimes I count sheep.
Mechelle