Insomnia

[jfkbengals]

(11-23-2021, 12:09 AM)Tiger Teeth Wrote: Okay...I usually cut off all caffeine around 6 or 7.  And I don't drink much during the day.  My resting heartbeat is normal as I do have hypertension, we check my blood pressure daily.  And it's well controlled.  And as I mentioned above, I do consume cannabis.  But I've been smoking since I was a teenager and never had ANY problems with sleeping, or insomnia until recently.

If I remember correctly, you're in the medical profession?  Both my grandfather and father suffered from insomnia.  Could it be hereditary? 

That's most likely the problem then.  Some time ago I saw that a study found a large number of long term pot smokers who start as teenagers develop insomnia in adulthood.  I started as a teen and smoked it until I was 30 or so, and I definitely had insomnia throughout my late 20s, 30s, and early 40s.  I haven't used marijuana since I was 31, and in my early 40s the insomnia subsided (49 now).  To this day I still take a melatonin before bedtime (it's supposed to be an hour before hand, but generally when I climb into bed) and often a benadryl as well.  This knocks me out within 20 minutes or so.

(11-28-2021, 11:14 PM)Chip Smallwood Wrote: Does melatonin **** with your dreams at all? I don’t typically remember my dreams, but it seems that when I take melatonin, they are vivid, and often frightening.

(11-28-2021, 11:41 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: I hallucinated on Melatonin and, like you wrote, the experience was horrifying.

It could be the dosage.  I hated it at first for the very reasons you two describe.  My girlfriend is the one who had the stuff.  That bottle ran out and we got one that was 3mg, far less than the prior, and I had no issues with it.  Since that point we have never gotten anything with more than 3mg and I have never had those episodes again.