Restless sleep

I've never been able to turn my brain off at night. One thing that has helped me a lot is putting on a podcast made for sleep. It gives my mind something steady to follow so it stops spinning through everything else. My go-to is Nothing Much Happens. I didn't expect something so basic to make a difference, but it really did.

I can't really suggest anything, but I can say that trazodone helped me with the same kind of problem in the past. It's an older anxiety drug that got repurposed for sleep because it makes people so drowsy. It isn't habit-forming like most sleep meds. For me it didn't silence my thoughts so much as make me stop caring about them. I could still think about work or whatever else was stressing me, but without the usual tension that came with it.

My sleep has been more broken lately. I still get some rest but I wake more often and earlier than before. I started magnesium glycinate this week to see if it helps. Last night felt better than most, though it's too soon to tell. I've also begun wearing my watch to bed so I can track the numbers and keep records.

Epitalon or pinealon can both be useful. DSIP might help as well.

DSIP gives me a deeper, more restful sleep. I have epitalon on order and plan to look into that next.

Trazodone didn't do much for me and neither did hydroxyzine. I'm a mess, honestly.

I know the feeling. Sleep has always been hard for me. If you want to avoid SSRIs like trazodone, three over-the-counter options have helped me the most, ranked by how well they worked: glycine first, then magnesium L-threonate, then magnesium glycinate. Worth trying.

I have epitalon coming. Pinealon didn't agree with me and left me drowsy during the day. Apparently ADHD brains sometimes react that way to pinealon, but epitalon should be different.

For years now I've relied on 50 milligrams of trazodone to keep me from waking up at night. Falling asleep was never a challenge for me. The effectiveness lasted until recently when the issue returned around three months back. Even after increasing to three times the amount the trouble persisted. Fortunately my primary care physician sent me to a specialist in sleep disorders and I'll undergo a sleep test at home sometime soon. Although I could have tried peptides to address this as someone who's into weightlifting at two hundred pounds I prefer ruling out any underlying health problem first. In particular I'm thinking about the possibility of sleep apnea that's not caused by obstruction given that I don't make snoring sounds and my spouse verifies this.

Peptides didn't move the needle much for my sleep. Most people who get serious about it end up building a sleep stack. Things can work for a while but a stack tends to hold up longer. I sometimes add lunesta or an antihistamine, but my regular mix is l-threonate, melatonin, gaba, saffron, magnesium, agmatine, and California poppy. Different combinations suit different people, but this is the first time I've consistently slept seven or eight hours.

Try lemborexant. It took two weeks to reach full effect but the improvement has been huge for me.

Not sure if this applies, and I'm no expert, but I used CJC-1295/IPA for fitness and one unexpected result was much better sleep.

Thanks everyone. I started a calming powder mixed in water and a homeopathic sleep aid, plus the sleep stories through the headband. I'm also tracking with my watch. Last night showed twenty-six minutes awake, two hours REM, five hours twenty-one minutes core, and thirty-eight minutes deep, which isn't too bad.