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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I love sleep. Recently, I actually dreamed that I was sleeping! I was a lifelong insomniac, turned out to be severe apnea which semi-woke me every 30 secs or so. The sleep doc gave me a CPAP, a rx for sleeping meds, and I went home to take a nap. Been catching up on a lifetime of missed sleep for the past 10 yrs!
Don't be afraid to try melatonin at bedtime. You get it in the vitamin aisle. It breaks down in your system to serotonin, which makes you all nice and rested. You don't have that floaty hangover feeling the next day.
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Actually, it breaks down to serotonin
after it hits every melatonin receptor in the body. It regulates sleep that way. It can also induce mania, which oddly enough, is the opposite of sleep. A family history of bipolar disorder should lead one to be cautious with taking OTC melatonin, especially since you don't know the exact dose you're getting.