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See how your doctors advice and the medicine he / she has prescribed you go's. Let us know how you get on after that.
However to help you in the mean time or if things do not work out (still take your doctors advice above any thing else), I have listed here a few things that help me.
- Ensure you have done lots of physical exercise during the day. If you exert yourself at the gym, check this one off. Personally I have to exhaust myself cycling on occasion.
- Calming music on headphones / quietly on speakers. I listen to gentle trance, Enya or classical some times for this purpose.
- Reading. I find reading fiction quite good at helping my brain to wind down. I would suspect that non-fiction may be too engaging to read.
- I am very temperature sensitive, with a pre-disposition to colder temperatures than most people. Are you sure your rooms comfortable and your duvet is not too hot/cold. I use the lowest tog available (5.5 I think it is) year round, wearing a thermal or dressing gown in bed and rarely a sleaping bag (also) for the very coldest of nights.
- The herbal sleaping aid tablets sold in Boots helped me for a while but I think I grew a resistance to them. In any event, the product your doctor has prescribed you is likely far more powerful anyway.
I generally sleap well but in the past I have had long phases where, like you; It took me simply hours to actually drop off. Once I am gone I am fine.
I connected these phases to my stress levels relatively early on. If you have any problems in your personal relationships, job issues or are particularly sensitive (like me), its easy for even little things to get to you (and you may not immediatly know it).
However to help you in the mean time or if things do not work out (still take your doctors advice above any thing else), I have listed here a few things that help me.
- Ensure you have done lots of physical exercise during the day. If you exert yourself at the gym, check this one off. Personally I have to exhaust myself cycling on occasion.
- Calming music on headphones / quietly on speakers. I listen to gentle trance, Enya or classical some times for this purpose.
- Reading. I find reading fiction quite good at helping my brain to wind down. I would suspect that non-fiction may be too engaging to read.
- I am very temperature sensitive, with a pre-disposition to colder temperatures than most people. Are you sure your rooms comfortable and your duvet is not too hot/cold. I use the lowest tog available (5.5 I think it is) year round, wearing a thermal or dressing gown in bed and rarely a sleaping bag (also) for the very coldest of nights.
- The herbal sleaping aid tablets sold in Boots helped me for a while but I think I grew a resistance to them. In any event, the product your doctor has prescribed you is likely far more powerful anyway.
I generally sleap well but in the past I have had long phases where, like you; It took me simply hours to actually drop off. Once I am gone I am fine.
I connected these phases to my stress levels relatively early on. If you have any problems in your personal relationships, job issues or are particularly sensitive (like me), its easy for even little things to get to you (and you may not immediatly know it).
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