For us guys, to keep from waking up for the restroom, I use 60 mg of Beta-Sitosterol and a good Nettle Root Extract. These really work for me.
Always the exception to the rule but going on 13 or 14 years since my bad head injury and 13 or 14 years of bad sleep :)
Been awake as much as 74 hours.
Never sleep more than 4 hours in a row.
Wake up with tremors.
Blood pressure has always been fine.
BTW, I RARELY have those long bouts anymore.
The brain is a wonderful thing and kept healing and healing WAY past two years.
But now i think it’s done!! :)
Any smart people out there wanna take a shot at why I wake up with brutal tremors all over and my eyes shooting back and forth for about 1 to 3 minutes before it stops?
Damage to thalamus, cerebellum and vestibular area.
NO doctor can give me an answer in all these years.
They said brain injury damaged the sleep-wake cycle. I don’t think they know what that means :)
If I don’t drink, I might sleep through the night, but I wake up parched in the morning. If I drink, then I have to get up several times. It’s a no win situation.
Does melatonin really work for people? I have to take a Lunesta when I get a restless night going. Which is frequent.
“cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, or CBTI”
Does anybody know anyone for whom this worked>
Personally, I am very skeptical of this.
I take a couple of Gaviscon or Tums before bed, and that helps. Even though I don’t feel that my stomach bothers me, I’d heard that imperceptible stomach issues can cause restless sleep.
I can drink strong black coffee an hour before bed and sleep fine.
Magnesium works for me. I use a spray.
Or is it possible high blood pressure causes sleepless nights? - Tom
Even though I take it in the morning, it still gets me up every hour or two all night long, to pee. I can usually fall back to sleep right away but many times not.
So which is it? My blood pressure is high so I take a medication to help lower it which causes me to lose sleep after getting up to pee all night long?
Or is my blood pressure high because I get up all night long to pee and can't get back to a restful sleep?
Inexplicable.
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Sleepless nights are mostly due to stress from life issues that one cannot resolve.
Kicking all the demonrats from DC would help my sleep.
Natural Calm with Calcium. Magnesium/calcium drink before bed you will sleep like a baby.
Backpackers know that one of the reasons for insomnia is dehydration. Basically, your kidneys wake you up. When you get up to pee, drink some water. As much as you can. I keep a cup of water with an evil straw next to my bed.
Hydrate all day long.
“Sleepless nights linked to high blood pressure”
The title is a poor and near opposite expression of what the report was talking about. It is more a report about “High blood pressure linked to sleepless nights”.