Anxiety affecting sleep

[navy6587]

Ralph...I, too, had and continue to have anxiety that has caused a huge loss of sleep for the past year or more. I know what my problem is but, in your case, you haven't provided any clues as to why you're anxious. Can you share your story (although, since you're on a site for ED issues, I can guess that it's at the root of the cause) and please include a signature section that gives us all an insight to your predicament. Know that we, on FT, don't bite and are all here to support and enlighten each other...each in our own ways.

Welcome...

[paulgonzales86]

You can try some technique it might help you to remove anxiety and stress.
1- Try mediation daily for 5-10 minutes daily. Listen to mediational songs and focus on one thing.
2- Do exercises. It helps you to fall asleep.
3- Clear Stressful activities before going to bed.
4- Tense and relax
5- Till when you dont feel more sleepy dont go to bed.

[Lost Sheep]

Keeping strictly regular hours (whether a workday or not). A regular wake-sleep cycle is essential to keep your circadian rhythms in harmony with your sleep cycle.

Eating regularly (and not too close to your bedtime) is helpful.

Keep your sleeping area (at least at your bedtime) cooler. Your metabolic rate likes it that way. I can't figure out why, but that is what sleep specialists say. Sleep under covers for warmth, but keep the air around you cooler than you think it ought to be.

None of this is designed to reduce your anxiety, but is designed to enhance your sleep. Half the battle.

[Martin6469]

In World War II, radio men who listened for enemy transmissions tended to get sleepy when hearing only static. My wife and I keep little AM-FM radios with single earpieces in bed. We tune them to an unused FM channel or to the so-called AM graveyard frequencies of 1230, 1240, 1340, 1400, 1450, or 1490. There are radios which turn off after 90 minutes, to save batteries.

We also use melatonin, but don't take the dose in the bottle! It's much too high and overloads the receptors. Split 1 mg tablets into four pieces, take one an hour before bedtime. When you wake in the night, put another piece under your tongue (no need to get up for water), and repeat some hours later until you've had 3 or 4 pieces, but no more than four!