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    Need ambiens.....

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    forget ambien... too many people with too many bad experiences....

    melotonin works for me
    GABA right before bed can make you drowsey, AND it stimulates your pituatary which helps improve the pulse of your GH, unless you are my age, and your body no longer responds to it anymore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Times Roman View Post
    forget ambien... too many people with too many bad experiences....

    melotonin works for me
    GABA right before bed can make you drowsey, AND it stimulates your pituatary which helps improve the pulse of your GH, unless you are my age, and your body no longer responds to it anymore.
    DITTO! exactly what I do......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Times Roman View Post
    forget ambien... too many people with too many bad experiences....

    melotonin works for me
    GABA right before bed can make you drowsey, AND it stimulates your pituatary which helps improve the pulse of your GH, unless you are my age, and your body no longer responds to it anymore.
    I use melatonin.... it doesn't work very well. Benadryl works sometimes, but I feel like shit the next day. Never heard of GABA, I'm gonna look into it.

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    I take 75mg's of benadryl when I cant sleep. It always seems to knock me out.

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    I go through bad weeks like this every 1.5 months or so... it's pure agony. I fall right asleep, but wake up an hour or 2 later and then it's just up all night. My body is tired, but my mind is racing. I am SUPER alert right upon waking, not even groggy in the least. I could wake up and take a fvcking SAT exam 2 seconds later. It's pure insanity, and NOTHING works. Ambien, Lunesta, Alcohol, Mary Jane, OTC sleep aids, Melatonin... NOTHING! Anxiety man... it'll kill ya.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gbrice75 View Post
    I go through bad weeks like this every 1.5 months or so... it's pure agony. I fall right asleep, but wake up an hour or 2 later and then it's just up all night. My body is tired, but my mind is racing. I am SUPER alert right upon waking, not even groggy in the least. I could wake up and take a fvcking SAT exam 2 seconds later. It's pure insanity, and NOTHING works. Ambien, Lunesta, Alcohol, Mary Jane, OTC sleep aids, Melatonin... NOTHING! Anxiety man... it'll kill ya.

    I can't fall asleep for shit. It probably takes me an average of 2-3 hours per night. Most of the time I stay asleep after I fall asleep, but probably once or twice a week I'll wake up all night long every hour or so. I don't have bad anxiety, but my mind is racing. I'm just thinking about shit all the time, and I think that's what's doing it.

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    Unisom is good too.....I did that for awhile and it helped and is OTC

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    nothing beats a Xanax or atavan if you have a script for them. When i can't sleep I use a combo of melatonin, valarian root, and 50mg of benadryl. But when i take melatonin i take a pretty high dose. 25mg. I usually sleep but have some strange dreams, like once i dreamed i got shot and could see a big gaping hole in my stomach and i got in a taxi and sylvester stalone was my cab driver who kept telling me it was just a scratch and making small talk. :S

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    Quote Originally Posted by scotty51312 View Post
    nothing beats a Xanax or atavan if you have a script for them. When i can't sleep I use a combo of melatonin, valarian root, and 50mg of benadryl. But when i take melatonin i take a pretty high dose. 25mg. I usually sleep but have some strange dreams, like once i dreamed i got shot and could see a big gaping hole in my stomach and i got in a taxi and sylvester stalone was my cab driver who kept telling me it was just a scratch and making small talk. :S
    MAN scotty! that is a high dose! Whew! I only take 3mgs and at the most 6.....I bet you did have some dreams....

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    Quote Originally Posted by scotty51312 View Post
    nothing beats a Xanax or atavan if you have a script for them. When i can't sleep I use a combo of melatonin, valarian root, and 50mg of benadryl. But when i take melatonin i take a pretty high dose. 25mg. I usually sleep but have some strange dreams, like once i dreamed i got shot and could see a big gaping hole in my stomach and i got in a taxi and sylvester stalone was my cab driver who kept telling me it was just a scratch and making small talk. :S
    Lmao! 10mg is the most i've taken of Melatonin... I figured if that didn't work, more wouldn't necessarily strengthen it.

    Xanax doesn't work for me either. I need a lethal combo of xanax, percocet, and valium - that should do it.

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    Sex helps you fall asleep.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSM4Life View Post
    Sex helps you fall asleep.....
    Hence, I'm an insomniac.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scotty51312 View Post
    nothing beats a Xanax or atavan if you have a script for them. When i can't sleep I use a combo of melatonin, valarian root, and 50mg of benadryl. But when i take melatonin i take a pretty high dose. 25mg. I usually sleep but have some strange dreams, like once i dreamed i got shot and could see a big gaping hole in my stomach and i got in a taxi and sylvester stalone was my cab driver who kept telling me it was just a scratch and making small talk. :S
    I've take large doses of melatonin too and have also gotten strange dreams. Typically though I will take half a pill, and the other half when I wake up in the middle of the night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LatissimusaurousRex View Post
    I've take large doses of melatonin too and have also gotten strange dreams. Typically though I will take half a pill, and the other half when I wake up in the middle of the night.
    Exactly what i'm trying to avoid...

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    Spend some time working on your breathing, might sound dumb....but it clears the mind.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gbrice75 View Post
    Lmao! 10mg is the most i've taken of Melatonin... I figured if that didn't work, more wouldn't necessarily strengthen it.

    Xanax doesn't work for me either. I need a lethal combo of xanax, percocet, and valium - that should do it.

    After that we'd have to change your title to AR's Heath Ledger...........



    too soon?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gbrice75 View Post
    Lmao! 10mg is the most i've taken of Melatonin... I figured if that didn't work, more wouldn't necessarily strengthen it.

    Xanax doesn't work for me either. I need a lethal combo of xanax, percocet, and valium - that should do it.
    pfft thats a slow monday night...jk

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    Quote Originally Posted by gbrice75 View Post
    Exactly what i'm trying to avoid...
    Well I can't help it I always wake up, usually to unload a monster piss, but often I can't get back to sleep so I take another melatonin as soon as I wake up to ensure I'll get back to sleep. I use only half to A) that's all I really need B) I use half as much as I would using a whole C) It leaves me less drowsy in the morning

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    I got a call last night from Washington at midnight....
    "hello roman? how are you?"
    "sleeping"
    "oh, sorry for disturging you" (ya sure)

    i was given instruction i had to can someone, inventory thier sh1t, blah blah blah

    what i really could have used to get back to sleep was a big jigger of some bourbon

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDawg1536 View Post
    Hence, I'm an insomniac.
    I can help...

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    Quote Originally Posted by scotty51312 View Post
    After that we'd have to change your title to AR's Heath Ledger...........



    too soon?
    Lmao!

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    pfft thats a slow monday night...jk
    Haha, not for this old man, not anymore!

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    Melatonin, masturbation, benadryl...... now I've graduate to Makers Mark at 5am. **** you, sleep. **** you.

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    Are you consuming caffeine? Are you on a B Complex?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDawg1536 View Post
    Need ambiens.....
    Liar.....just an excuse for you to get up and watch the royal wedding...we all know that was really your plan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyclehard View Post
    Are you consuming caffeine? Are you on a B Complex?
    Nope. Neither..... Unless you count the coke I mixed with my whiskey at 5am. I think that helped though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kawigirl View Post
    Liar.....just an excuse for you to get up and watch the royal wedding...we all know that was really your plan
    What can I say... I'm a hopeless romantic.

    In my defense, I don't have cable and it was on every ****ing channel..... So, yeah, I watched it.

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    Tons of caffeine in Coke.

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