Restless sleep

[kroert99]

I've had restless sleep for years, and it's getting old. My doctor doesn't see the need for a sleep study, as I don't snore and my husband said he's never noticed me stop breathing like I have sleep apnea.

I'm looking to experiment with some peptides for sleep. She gave me gabapentin for restless legs I get in the evening, thinking that my fidgety legs is waking me, but we aren't sure. My mind stays busy and I toss and turn. The more nights it happens, the more anxiety I have about even going to bed. I'm on about 7-8mg of Tirz for maintenance, but that's it at the moment. I have KLOW I have yet to mix up and pin. I'm kind of scared of the sting. I also have tesa/ipa I have not mixed up. I got that to help body fat before my lipo360 but it said it takes 6 weeks to kick in, and I was scheduled for surgery sooner than that. I am now 12wpo and ready to maximize sleep and workouts.

 

[CandyCap]

I have never been able to shut off my brain at bedtime. I know, for me one of the most helpful things has been listening to a podcast specifically for sleep. It puts my brain in task forward mode, and gets my mind off of all the things running through it. My favorite is Nothing Much Happens.
Admittedly, I never thought something so simple would help, but it was a game changer.

 

[tubby]

I'm not in a position to recommend anything, but will note that in the past trazodone was useful to me for coping with what you've described. It's an older anti-anxiety medication that's no longer prescribed for that because it made people so drowsy and tired that they'd fall asleep on it so it wasn't suitable for daytime use. Thus, why it's mostly prescribed for sleep these days. It's not habit forming the way that most other sleeping pills are. I found that it didn't really shut up my brain so much as when I took it I no longer cared about whatever nonsense my brain wanted to think about. My brain could fixate on what I needed to do for work tomorrow (or whatever other stressful pending thing might exist), but instead of feeling a stress response, I felt an indifference. I'm exaggerating a bit, but I would joke that if a fire broke out in the kitchen, instead of jumping up to put it out, I might lay there a bit longer since it hadn't spread to the bedroom yet.

 

[woundcarping]

I've had more friction sleeping than in the past, still sleeping but waking up more and waking up earlier. I've started taking magnesium glycinate this week to see if it'll help. Last night was a better night's sleep in a while, but it's still early to tell. I've started wearing my watch to bed to track sleep so I can have more quantitative data/logs.

 

[kroert99]

I have never been able to shut off my brain at bedtime. I know, for me one of the most helpful things has been listening to a podcast specifically for sleep. It puts my brain in task forward mode, and gets my mind off of all the things running through it. My favorite is Nothing Much Happens.
Admittedly, I never thought something so simple would help, but it was a game changer.

I did get a headband with speakers to try to listen to something. I had earbuds, but they are uncomfortable to sleep with, so I'll get my headband set up and try this tonight. It's maddening. We have a sleep number bed and it tracks how horrible I sleep, like an hour and a half to two hours restless. It affects my concentration and energy the next day lately. Ugh!

 

[kroert99]

I'm not in a position to recommend anything, but will note that in the past trazodone was useful to me for coping with what you've described. It's an older anti-anxiety medication that's no longer prescribed for that because it made people so drowsy and tired that they'd fall asleep on it so it wasn't suitable for daytime use. Thus, why it's mostly prescribed for sleep these days. It's not habit forming the way that most other sleeping pills are. I found that it didn't really shut up my brain so much as when I took it I no longer cared about whatever nonsense my brain wanted to think about. My brain could fixate on what I needed to do for work tomorrow (or whatever other stressful pending thing might exist), but instead of feeling a stress response, I felt an indifference. I'm exaggerating a bit, but I would joke that if a fire broke out in the kitchen, instead of jumping up to put it out, I might lay there a bit longer since it hadn't spread to the bedroom yet.

I did try that a couple years ago and also progesterone which is supposed to help too. Nada. I tried different marijuana gummies and didn't help. I just woke up high the times I would remember actually waking up. It was a horrible feeling. I have some cbn gummies and they aren't working either. I have Hyland Calm Forte and they aren't working, as well as Hyland restful legs. Ativan works. I've been prescribed it for anxiety flying and it knocks me out. lol

 

[kroert99]

I've had more friction sleeping than in the past, still sleeping but waking up more and waking up earlier. I've started taking magnesium glycinate this week to see if it'll help. Last night was a better night's sleep in a while, but it's still early to tell. I've started wearing my watch to bed to track sleep so I can have more quantitative data/logs.

I will try the magnesium again. I had tried it in the past but maybe I didn't stick with it long enough. I read about DSIP and maybe even sermorelin helping.

 

[Chili777]

I will try the magnesium again. I had tried it in the past but maybe I didn't stick with it long enough. I read about DSIP and maybe even sermorelin helping.

Epitalon is also reported to reset your circadian rhythm. I just finished a cycle of it, but primarily for brain health. It didn't do that from me, but I'm also on Reta which seems to power through anything I take except Trazodone. I'll take a half of a pill the night of, and the night after, my weekly dose and that gets me through the week. Some people have reported DSIP also helps and others say it did nothing, but the ones it did help swear by it. I also read that DSIP can interact with ACE inhibitors for HBP, so that one is out for me at the moment.

 

[miss-sanne]

eptalon or pinealon both are great. DSIP could also help

 

[kroert99]

eptalon or pinealon both are great. DSIP could also help

I'll have to check vendors for all of these and figure out which one to try.

 

[dndgeek]

I like DSIP for me it feels like I get a deeper more restful sleep. I have Epitalon on order hoping to research that next.