Not sure why. Not sure whether regulation of sleep through melatonin management is necessarily the solution though I appreciate it is good for jet lag management. But I do have views on sleep, how to get it, what good sleep feels like rather than bad, how bad it's been for ages for me and how that leaves you. It is so essential for mental balance and a feeling of wellbeing. Poor sleep is wretched.
For reasons previously raised in posts passim, my life has become a festival of poor nights. After a while of tiredness, emergency rescues of my addicted son at 4am (in car accidents, in strange towns in doorways, hypothermic in car parks, unconscious in unknowns' flats) and many hours six days a week sitting in cars outside AA meetings and medical appointments, my entire body rages with fatigue. It is a pain of a mental and physical nature. My muscles ache, my head aches, my mind is wretched and I am burnt to a crisp of worry.
Yesterday I found a bit of a solution. I went to an accupuncturist to work out a problem which I am very familiar with. My lower back tightens after some exercise (not always, just when absolutely fatigued and my body is exercised with a poor posture or niggling injury). this is usually walking with an unknown change in gait (e.g. a hip or ankle injury) or gardening and lifting stuff, and not having got my lateral obliques playing their part. the core goes to mush in a car seat or office chair. Once that cycle has started my muscles all the way up my back, between my shoulders, up my neck and into the back of my head and over the top of my shoulders slowly lock in place and begin to hurt. My posture adjusts to avoid the pain points and I end up not straight, all bent up, with a poor range of motion, turning to stone.
Yesterday I had needles in my ankles, calves, hips, back, all the up the back, shoulders, neck, ears, wrists and hands. Muscle twitche all up and down. One side as hard as rock but an hour later they began to unlock.
We had another disturbed and stressful night. But when I slept between 1 and 6 I had deeper sleep than I have had in a decade. The (Johnny) Vegas nerve is being given some relief. I have awoken with a lymph system which is flowing such that I feel like I have a massive hangover headache but have not had a drink for weeks. My entire body feels like I have been in a fight with an angry stegasaurus. But there is a strange calm and comfort. My posture is different and my sleep was good. Really good. But I have a sinus and head cold (though I don't, I just have a lot of fluid finally able to course about rather than blocked). I think all this is the biggest fu cker of sleep more than imbalance of melatonin levels.
Nope, she means melatonin. Delayed sleep and late wake up is common and leaves people muggy and slow. This is often because the body clock is wrong and your mind is saying it is not yet night. Managing your melatonin levels with medication can reset that so that your natural sleepiness is in time with the setting and rising of the sun. In places which lack a real sunny dawn and dark night (e.g. a city in scotland in the winter) the mind can get out of whack and the body is not told to snooze.
I seem to have hit a plane of tiredness where even my mouth guard no longer bothers me and I'm out cold for a good few hours although I'm still waking up at 6am for no good reason. At least the clocks going forward will turn that into the time I want to wake up around 7am.
It's taken us best part of 18 months getting this prescribed for our daughter. Makes a massive difference. Even now her hospital consultant isn't allowed to prescribe any changes to the dosage and it has to be referred up, and he has to apply for a license to prescribe a different brand etc.
It does make me wonder what person or persons decided that an over the counter supplement readily available in almost all western countries should not be allowed in the UK unless under a doctors prescription.
"Am I wrong? No, it's the children who are wrong."
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do you mean melanin?
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Not sure why. Not sure whether regulation of sleep through melatonin management is necessarily the solution though I appreciate it is good for jet lag management. But I do have views on sleep, how to get it, what good sleep feels like rather than bad, how bad it's been for ages for me and how that leaves you. It is so essential for mental balance and a feeling of wellbeing. Poor sleep is wretched.
For reasons previously raised in posts passim, my life has become a festival of poor nights. After a while of tiredness, emergency rescues of my addicted son at 4am (in car accidents, in strange towns in doorways, hypothermic in car parks, unconscious in unknowns' flats) and many hours six days a week sitting in cars outside AA meetings and medical appointments, my entire body rages with fatigue. It is a pain of a mental and physical nature. My muscles ache, my head aches, my mind is wretched and I am burnt to a crisp of worry.
Yesterday I found a bit of a solution. I went to an accupuncturist to work out a problem which I am very familiar with. My lower back tightens after some exercise (not always, just when absolutely fatigued and my body is exercised with a poor posture or niggling injury). this is usually walking with an unknown change in gait (e.g. a hip or ankle injury) or gardening and lifting stuff, and not having got my lateral obliques playing their part. the core goes to mush in a car seat or office chair. Once that cycle has started my muscles all the way up my back, between my shoulders, up my neck and into the back of my head and over the top of my shoulders slowly lock in place and begin to hurt. My posture adjusts to avoid the pain points and I end up not straight, all bent up, with a poor range of motion, turning to stone.
Yesterday I had needles in my ankles, calves, hips, back, all the up the back, shoulders, neck, ears, wrists and hands. Muscle twitche all up and down. One side as hard as rock but an hour later they began to unlock.
We had another disturbed and stressful night. But when I slept between 1 and 6 I had deeper sleep than I have had in a decade. The (Johnny) Vegas nerve is being given some relief. I have awoken with a lymph system which is flowing such that I feel like I have a massive hangover headache but have not had a drink for weeks. My entire body feels like I have been in a fight with an angry stegasaurus. But there is a strange calm and comfort. My posture is different and my sleep was good. Really good. But I have a sinus and head cold (though I don't, I just have a lot of fluid finally able to course about rather than blocked). I think all this is the biggest fu cker of sleep more than imbalance of melatonin levels.
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Nope, she means melatonin. Delayed sleep and late wake up is common and leaves people muggy and slow. This is often because the body clock is wrong and your mind is saying it is not yet night. Managing your melatonin levels with medication can reset that so that your natural sleepiness is in time with the setting and rising of the sun. In places which lack a real sunny dawn and dark night (e.g. a city in scotland in the winter) the mind can get out of whack and the body is not told to snooze.
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I guess because people don’t use it properly (eg they take it every day or take too much) and then end up worse off.
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i think you are meant to take it for a day or two and then stop
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I seem to have hit a plane of tiredness where even my mouth guard no longer bothers me and I'm out cold for a good few hours although I'm still waking up at 6am for no good reason. At least the clocks going forward will turn that into the time I want to wake up around 7am.
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Can easily get it in France.
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Good point!
I'm off to marrakesh in a couple of hours, will I be able to get it there I wonder?
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It's taken us best part of 18 months getting this prescribed for our daughter. Makes a massive difference. Even now her hospital consultant isn't allowed to prescribe any changes to the dosage and it has to be referred up, and he has to apply for a license to prescribe a different brand etc.
Such a faff.
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It does make me wonder what person or persons decided that an over the counter supplement readily available in almost all western countries should not be allowed in the UK unless under a doctors prescription.
"Am I wrong? No, it's the children who are wrong."
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Whenever we go across the pond we stock up on it and get the lovely 5mg and 10mg chewables.
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