HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Lymes and sleep

Support Forums
>
Lyme Disease
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 7/13/2012 5:00 PM (GMT 0)
Awake every morning about 3 or 4. Can't function without my sleep. nyone out there found something to help you sleep all night. This is a huge issue and makes me feel een worse!!!
Posted 7/13/2012 8:10 PM (GMT 0)
I've tried all kinds of stuff, but melatonin seems to work best for me without the after-effects the next morning.
Posted 7/14/2012 2:01 AM (GMT 0)
Will your dr prescribe any sleep meds??  I've had insomnia 4ever, but it's gotten much worse since I've had Lyme. Luckily my Lyme dr will prescribe sleep meds, as I feel crazy & anxious when I don't get any sleep mad    Otherwise, I have taken OTC meds, like unisom, which does help(tho not as well as prescribed sleep meds)  Good luck!
Posted 7/14/2012 6:30 AM (GMT 0)
SAM-e is a natural product that can restore sleep cycles. It doesn't have the side effects that pharmaceutical sleep aids do. Their are also some good homeopathic remedies that might work for you that are worth giving a try.

Hope this resolves itself soon
Posted 7/14/2012 4:09 PM (GMT 0)
I've tried OTC meds which stopped working. A host of others too---since i suffer from persistent lyme depression, i take a med that works for that and also helps me sleep.

Sometimes i sleep on the floor (stomach side down) or curl in a ball.

I think problems with sleeping and lyme have to do with the body not detoxing during the day properly. And during sleep is when we detox a lot so i hope you get some help soon!
Posted 7/15/2012 4:12 PM (GMT 0)
Hi mxmom

I have been taking Lunesta for a year or two and it works great. I too have been having insomnia for many years. However, the Lunesta is not working as good now and I keep waking up at 3 or 4am. So frustrating!! And then, I finally fall back asleep a couple of hours later and then wake up around 830 like today. I just cannot do that and get to work and stuff.

Anyhow my doctor told me I need to reset my body and take like 5 days off without the Lunesta and then restart. So, I think I'm going to do that starting tonight.

But, I recommend Lunesta. It works well for me (or did!). I've taken it before years ago and was able to get off of it pretty easily but then a couple of years ago when my lyme symptoms started up, I had crazy anxiety from the symptoms not knowing what was going on and had to get back on it because I was getting NO sleep!
Posted 7/16/2012 10:11 AM (GMT 0)
I have tried melatonin and that did nothing for me. Lately I've been taking a large dose of magnesium right before I go to sleep (1000mg+) that seems to work some of the time but I also wake up pretty early. If I can tell I'm in for a very restless or painful night, I take 50mg of benadryl and that works well for me.
Posted 7/18/2012 8:20 PM (GMT 0)

Summer3 said...
I have tried melatonin and that did nothing for me. Lately I've been taking a large dose of magnesium right before I go to sleep (1000mg+) that seems to work some of the time but I also wake up pretty early. If I can tell I'm in for a very restless or painful night, I take 50mg of benadryl and that works well for me.

Have you discussed this with your doctor? This sounds dangerous. The safe upper limit for magnesium supplementation is supposed to be 350mg. You can tolerate a lot more magnesium than that from natural sources, but for some reason, the artificial supplementation is worse.
Posted 7/18/2012 8:45 PM (GMT 0)
I have been taking 2,000 mgs of magnesium (1,000 mgs am & 1,000 mgs pm) every day for over 1 1/2 years now, so that "limit" is very low. Especially if one takes into account that our ground is depleted of magnesium and now it is being recommended that everyone should supplement with magnesium.

One other thing to consider is that those with Lyme seem to have trouble absorbing magnesium (along with some other things as well), the higher dosages aren't nearly as dangerous as some would have us believe. Many natural medicine doctors recommend taking magnesium to "bowel tolerance" which means you start off slow and keep adding more magnesium (one pill every couple of days) until you start having lots of gas or diarrhea. Then you back off until that stops and you have just found the dosage your body needs!

My insomnia was really stubborn. I couldn't get to sleep hardly, when I did I was very restless and didn't sleep well and kept waking up every 1 1/2 - 2 hours throughout the night. I was concerned about taking those sleeping pills that some do weird things like eat and drive while on them, so my GP suggested I try Trazodone. An old anti-depressent that has a heavy side effect of sleepiness. It worked wonders for me.
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply