Guest guest Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 > of on and off meds. I did recently go to Mexico for 4 days and being > in the sunshine really reset my clock and i was able to sleep for 3 > nights without pills!! Sometimes insomnia can be caused by the body's circadian rhythms being mixed up. Since the sun helped you so much, I would suggest looking into a lightbox like people with Seasonal Affective Disorder use. I haven't bought one, but this week I did start using a 150 watt full spectrum bulb I found at Vitamin Shoppe for $7.50. I point it at me while I use the computer for a 1-2 hours in the morning. No effect on my sleep, but my energy during the day seems better. Anyway, try searching " bright light therapy, " " seasonal affective disorder, " and " delayed sleep insomnia " (or something like that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Hi all, this is some good news in response to this old posting. I originally posted my insomnia woes last month on this thread and was literally losing my mind dealing with the exhaustion, fatigue, wiredness, anxiety, heart palpitations of adjusting on thyroid and adrenal meds all while being TOTALLY unable to sleep even with numerous prescription drugs. So, again, as this may not work for all, I just wanted to post what DID work for me. I have now been able to sleep (with the aid of sleep meds for 1 week), and the last 3 nights I have slept completely on my own with no prescription sleep aids! First, I had to lower my Levothyroxine dose back to my starting dose (which was 5 mcg, yes micrograms, I have an aqueous diluted solution that makes it possible to get such a small dose of T4). I realized I can only increase by 1.25 mcg every week to 2 weeks, so it may take months to get up to a therapuetic dose (25 mcg), but slower is better as now I can sleep and am not having terrible panic attacks, heart palpitations and hyper symptoms like before. However, the other things that helped me were given to me by my Naturopath/homeopathic doc. I took the following combo to help regulate cortisol. Seriphos (which is phopsphorylated serine) 4 per night, Aqueous chromium 8 drops at night, Biotics Amini-Acid Quicksort 10 drops per night, and Unda Number 1001. This definitely helped regulate the cortisol at night and got me back on track to slowly being able to sleep again!! Hooray!! However, b/c I am so low on the T4, i am utterly exhausted. that, and I'm still only on 2 1/2 Isocort pellets daily. I have had bad reactions when I increased either too quickly, so I will patiently wait to heal... Hope this helps! Metta > > Low cortisol can keep you awake at night just as much as high does. It > does this as when you get too low you go hypoglycemic then your body > releases adrenaline. End of sleep for hours after tht. You can try > taking some Isocort at bedtime and not eating any carbs after baout 5PM > then eating high protein at bedtime. Sometimes this combo is helpful > sometimes it just takes ghetting the cortils higher to be able to return > to normal sleep. Slow.ly raising the Isocort until you can tolerate HC > would be my suggestion. > > -- > Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV > > http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/ > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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