If you go through a sleepless night...

[zanana1]

How do you make it through the next day?

[Aristus]

1. Coffee!

When I was in PA School, I had pretty bad insomnia 3-4 nights a month, undoubtedly due to stress. When I knew sleep wasn't going to happen, I'd stay up late studying (a good use of the time, and also a way to avoid the stress of feeling like I wasn't doing enough to succeed) until I felt sleepy enough to try going to bed again (sometimes 1 or 2 in the morning, with a wake-up of 4:45 or so...)

The next morning, I'd take a nap on the express bus to UW, and then tank up on coffee when I got there. After morning lecture, I'd head over to a Palestinian restaurant on The Ave for lunch and some high-tension Turkish coffee to keep me awake through afternoon lecture.

[Raffi Ella]

2. take some rhodiola,

drink lots of water and eat well.

[PumpkinAle]

3. Thank you RE - I had not

heard of rhodiola before your post - will be on the look out for it now.

Do you recommend a certain type/brand/dosage?

Thanks again.

[Raffi Ella]

5. hi,

I bought NOW brand, I think it's 500mg. The important thing with rhodiola is that it be standardized at 3%.

[PumpkinAle]

7. Thank you so much

am definitely going to get that.

[Raffi Ella]

14. You're welcome~

and if I haven't said so before, welcome to DU.

[Xyzse]

4. Happens too often with me.

I just go through it, and keep busy.

Hoping, that when the time comes to sleep, I can do so.

[In_The_Wind]

6. Naps. 2 or 3 of 'em.

[MicaelS]

8. 5 Hour Energy or Monster Energy

http://www.5hourenergy.com/facts/

https://www.monsterenergy.com/

I don't drink coffee.

Get some Melatonin, start taking it every night 30 minutes before bedtime.

Make sure your bedroom is dark. If you can't do that get an eyeshade / sleep mask.

Use earplugs, or some sort of white noise, a fan, or a white noise machine. Or maybe a CD of surf sounds or something similar.

[a la izquierda]

9. Melatonin does nothing but give me wild dreams...

of course, it's combating an anti-depressant. I can fall asleep, stay sleeping for about four hours, and then I'm up, back to sleep, up, back to sleep. It's aggravating.

[MicaelS]

10. Wow, never heard that one.

Try the earplugs, they work wonders for me.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Exercise during the day.

You need to tire yourself out physically.

[a la izquierda]

16. I'm power lift

I work out like crazy. It's not that, though I did not have as many sleep issues as when I was doing cross fit 6 days per week.

[Raffi Ella]

15. It kept me up.

I was so wired, it was like I was in this twilight zone between sleep and awake and I couldn't "wake up" from it. It was horrible. I never took it again. I'd read that could be a side effect for a small percentage of people and I am definitely one of those people. Never took it again.

[a la izquierda]

17. Yeah, I definitely could not tell at times whether I was awake...

or asleep. It was a horrible dreamland...Sucked. But it may also be other meds I'm taking for depression.

[magical thyme]

11. Rhodiola rosa looks promising, but if you are on any prescription meds

run it by your doctor first.

Per Sloan-Kettering:

Herb-Drug Interactions


•Cytochrome P450 3A4 substrates: Rhodiola inhibits CYP3A4 and can affect the intracellular concentration of drugs metabolized by this enzyme (12) (21).
•P-glycoprotein substrates: Rhodiola was shown to inhibit P-gp activity and can interfere with the metabolism of certain drugs (12) (21).
•Antidepressants: Rhodiola has MAO inhibition activity and may increase the serotonergic side effects (13).
•Antihypertensives: Rhodiola has MAO inhibition activity and may increase the hypotensive side effects (13).
•CNS Stimulants: Rhodiola has MAO inhibition activity and may enhance the hypertensive effect

http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/herb/rhodiola

[shenmue]

13. Coffee and music