Insomnia... What do you do to get rid of it?

I too suffer from insomnia, mine does not last 5-7 days its is pretty much all the time. I do not take medications for this, I have tried but do not like the hang-over effect many of these medications produce. I mostly use home remedies. These are what works for me: relaxing activities like a hot bath ~ no work of any kind, no computer, no stimulants after about six (coffee, tea, etc.), a long walk after supper helps, I read ~ but I enjoy reading very much and at times this will keep me up if its a very good book, I use distractions ~ most often I turn on the television in my bedroom ~ nothing exciting mostly wildlife shows or something I've seen many many times(this works best for me as most times the reason I cannot sleep is that I cannot shut my mind off, I also suffer from chronic pain, so this contributes to my difficulties~ so taking my medications on time helps, when nothing else works I sometimes have a drink. Reducing stress in your life helps too, if you can manage it. It can be a very troublesome problem, I find the more overtired I become the more problems I have getting to sleep. On a good night I get 6-7 hrs, most nights I survive on 5, and I seldom get a real restful sleep.

I get insomnia, too, at times. Sometimes I read. I find reading helps to relax my mind. I may lay in the dark and pray and eventually go back to sleep. I may also choose to get up and come online and do some things. Like you, I may do some cleaning and laundry. But I try to be quiet so as not to wake the others who are here sleeping.

Sleep.

There are many different factors why people suffer from insomnia. Sometimes, I suffer from it too and I did some research on the internet to try and deal with the problem. After collecting information from different sites, there is one article that is quite thorough and helpful. You can read the article here: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/300862_how-to-deal-with-insomnia-naturally

thanx everybody..i am also facin this problem.. since 2 to 3 days ... i dnt feel slpy at night..and in the morning i feel drowsy .. this has changd my whole routine ..these days m getting up at 2 in the afternoon.. evn tho i dnt want to.. if i dnt slp.. the next days i get headache .. my eyes burn..and i feel kinda absent minded ..my mind reaction time increases ....

Cleaning house in the middle of the night. This part got me. So you really do this? Ah...get hard work part time job and you will never have this problem. Yes offcourse I have had some nights when I cant fall asleep too but that never last longer than two, max three nights. And at those nights I fall asleep around 2AM max. So I am sorry to tell that but, maybe you can do house cleaning for people during night and they will wake up and have the house cleaned up. That will be very nice waking imho :D

one thing i do is wait until everybody else has gone to sleep. usually after this there is no noise at all or things going on in the background to keep me awake. this does help. my family really doesn't have routine of going to sleep all at once so this helps. however, if one needs medicine to get to sleep even this or anything else for that matter is still difficult to sleep maybe because of a chemical imbalance one might have.

It sounds like that you already have all it takes to solve your insomnia. My suggestion here might not be too helpful for you because I easily fall asleep. Sometimes even if I am doing something. At those nights that I couldn't sleep I watch boring TV. I set the sleep timer on the TV, and I usually doze off even befor the TV turns off.

if i have problems falling asleep what i do is read a book, after reading a few pages i will already feel sleepy

I heard magnesium deficiencies are a big cause of insomnia. So, just eat some things that are full of magnesium then.

The feeling of getting insomnia is very bad.From your words I can know that you always like working very late night,which is not a good habbit.Maybe I can give you some advices. First,have a routine life to synchronise your biological clock. Second,having a cup of tea could only make insomnia seriouse beacause there are some chemical substances that would refesh you. Third,if you have a little spare time in the day, do some sports,such as playing basketball or football or practicing shadow boxing. The last one,insomnia means that there are physiologic disoder in your body,which can not cured by medicine instantly.Have you ever heard of acupuncture, maybe you can have a try instead of having some medicines that have side affects. I hope my advices will be useful to you.

A warm bath can help to relieve both stress and anxiety, both of which can greatly hinder your sleeping efforts. Warm milk, on the other hand helps to soothes jagged nerve all throughout your body. Plus, milk contains small amounts of the hormone melatonin and the amino acid tryptophan that acts as a sedative that will induce sleep.

I used nutmeg spice in my soup. Its always works for me. Just put one-eighth part of its seed into the soup. I felt sleepy 3-4 hour after eating the soup. Not everyday I cook a soup so I put this spice as ingredient in my dish. I also massage myself before sleep with lavender lotion. I massage my back of neck, shoulder, wrist, and ankle. Many causes of insomnia, not necessarily because of stress. We must know what the cause so we can cure this. If this is because of anxiety about something, I would pray and ask God took my anxiety. Always think positively before sleep.

I like to count back from 100 to 1. Every time I make a mistake, I go back to 100 and start over. Along with this it's helpful to be aware of your breath and count in rhythm with it while letting your body loose. Soft rhythmic sounds like the ticking of a clock, feeling you heart beating or water dripping from a leaky faucet is nice to help you sleep. This helps me sleep. So give it a go. Nothing to lose except your sleep. Book reading gets me to sleep very fast too. Food usually doesn't help me.

I hope you can find a way to manage your insomnia. It sounds like a real burden. As I mentioned in another comment, music might be helpful for you. I would recommend instrumental (with no words) and soft classical music is probably the best. Harp music is also soothing. djbtol

I have fibromyalgia so I have very little control over my sleeping. I take a mild sleeping pill every night (15 mg) and sometimes I still find it difficult to get to sleep. The other night I moved to the living room sofa at 3am, woke up at 6 when my daughter got up to go to school, and went back to bed until I woke up around 9:30. The weather this summer has affected my sleep a lot and I have found myself on the living room sofa more times than I can count. I don't shut out the light until late because I hate tossing and turning and struggling with sleep so I wait until I'm pretty sure I will sleep, and that's not always a sure thing. Reading does help but a couple of times recently I read, looked at the clock and saw it was 3am and said to myself that it was time to go to sleep even though I didn't feel sleepy. Reading almost always makes me sleepy. Because I don't sleep well at night, I would have no trouble dozing off late afternoon early evening. I try not to because I feel it would affect my night time sleep, but I can find myself nodding off at the computer. But, like I said, I have a sleep illness (chronic pain, chronic fatigue, IBS)... oh yeah, IBS likes to hit, sometimes, just as I'm settling in to bed and I will be up another half hour in the washroom. However, sometimes I think LACK of sleep can cause IBS to act up. It is advised NOT to do any excercise before bed because you become stimulated making it more difficult to sleep. I would think doing housework would fall into that category. It doesn't sound like something that would help anyone get to sleep.