any tips to sleep better?

There are two ways you can get to sleep. With medicine or without. Personally, I use either Ambien or Lunesta which are prescribed to me by my psychiatrist. Both are safe and work fairly well. However, after seeing a "sleep doctor", he gave me some tips: turn your alarm clock the other way so you can not see what time it is once the lights go off. Only sleep or have sex in bed. Do not eat, talk on the phone, read, watch tv, or do anything else in bed. If you can not fall asleep within 20 minutes upon placing your head on your pillow, go into another room and dim the lights. Then do something terribly boring such as reading a manual on how to put together a lamp. Once you start to feel drowsy, go back to your bed and try to sleep again. Make sure that there is no light in your room. Go to sleep at the same time every night and wake up at the same time every morning. Exercise four hours before you want to sleep. If you can, and this is my advice,try to get a massage before going to bed and make sure that you do not have caffiene past noon. Make a list of all the things that you have to do the following day and place it on your nightstand so you don't think about it all night. You know that there is a reminder waiting for you right next to you. Also, the sleep doctor told me that Tylenol PM was simply benedryl and Tylenol. He told me it was just an advertising ploy and it was much cheaper just to buy the benedryl if that helped. I find that it does not help but that dramamine, the travel sickness medicine does... I hope this helps..Good luck!

Hi,

I had the same problem of sleep disorder during my college days. Those days were stressful, studies and then uncertainty about the future. I would suggest try to relax, read a book and try to divert your mind from things that might be troubling you.

My favorite sleeping tactic was take a book and read it before going to bed. I am not talking about interesting murder mysteries but what I felt as boring history books. I slept like a baby after implementing some of these following tips:

http://www.knowabouthealth.com/10-key-sleeping-tip...

http://www.knowabouthealth.com/cold-room-temperatu...

Here are some standard relaxation techniques that may help by reducing your stress levels in general:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/relaxation-techni...

Common recommendations to promote sleep include:

Go to bed at the same time every night, including weekends.

Don't do daytime tasks in bed.

If you can't sleep after a reasonable amount of time, get up for a while and do something non-stimulating.

Glass of warm milk.

Try taking a hot bath or shower before bed to relax you.

Herbal teas:

http://www.sleep-deprivation.com/articles/sleep-di...

I have had some success with melatonin, sold in health food stores. Your body normally manufactures this when it is time to sleep. It does not make me sleepy at all, but I often fall asleep better after taking it. Strange stuff.

Perhaps you can find some useful tips in a web search for "tips to sleep better".

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