Home remedies for insomnia?

[Pennywise]

After three nights with less than two hours sleep I am having a very hard time thinking straight, Hard time controlling my temper and just feel disconnected from my body.

I NEED sleep but find no comfort in my bed. This is not new to me but it seems to be getting worse.

Any suggestions?

[shefearsnothing]

Sex. (if it's bad enough you can get started before it's over )

That is all.

[goofin]

have you tried sleeping on a memory foam mattress? i switched 2 years ago and sleep good every night. sex cant hurt either.....

[AxiTech]

sex cant hurt either.....

It can if you are doing it right!!
I got to it first!!! What do I win?

[64Jeeper]

[crlovel]

Ask your significant other to crack you across the back of your skull with a brick. Works every time.

[Eugene V. Debs]

Melatonin or a few beers combined with a heavy meal. Exercise early in the day.

I've had this problem for years, tried various prescriptions to no avail-- either they don't work fast enough or cause me to oversleep. If this is a chronic problem, and you can swing it-- try to get a second shift job/assignment. That's how I dealt with my insomnia problem for many years. Of course I don't know if that's an insomnia problem so much as having an abnormal "body clock". Getting to bed for me has always been the issue, not staying asleep.

[Tootie]

After three nights with less than two hours sleep I am having a very hard time thinking straight, Hard time controlling my temper and just feel disconnected from my body.

I NEED sleep but find no comfort in my bed. This is not new to me but it seems to be getting worse.

Any suggestions?

Sounds like you need a new mattress. Have you ever tried a waterbed? It's very comforting to get into a warm soft bed that can rock you to sleep (if you keep the waves going ).

OASN ~ Try sleeping in different places, a comfy couch, a different bed. Try taking a hot shower before you go to bed. You could always go for the warm milk, it's never worked for me but ya won't know until you try it.

[XD45]

I've been known to have a spurt or two of insomnia every once in awhile and I can relate to the bed feeling uncomfortable and thats with a tempur-pedic that I love with all my heart. I think it's just sort of part of the whole lovely process.

Nothin works better than pounding meds for me, i'm not a fan of going that route since I gotta dope myself up so much I can't function for a good 8-10hrs but after 3-4days of no sleep its a nice change of pace.

[FMJ]

Let me tell ya... my wife and I were both having the same issue with the mattress. We've been waking with back and neck aches for a year! We decided just over this weekend to get the Tempur pedic mattress. It's still early to tell. My wife thinks it's a VAST improvement, I woke up in pain yesterday morning. Not too bad this morning though. They say it takes a week or two to get used to. It's definitly better than what we had.
HOWEVER, after you've spent $3000 on a bed, you begin losing sleep for a completely different reason! The only thing that helped was sex in the new mattress!