Insomnia

Toss and Turn No More

When everyone else in the house is asleep, do you find yourself taking a sheep census? Or watching late night reruns? Or folding laundry to wear you out? If you are like most people with insomnia, you’ll do just about anything to get a few good Zzzs. On third of all adults can’t sleep at one time or another. And as women get older, they’re especially prone to insomnia. One you turn 40, you are 40% more likely to experience some degree of insomnia, thanks to the midlife hormonal changes that precede menopause.  During and after menopause, a common cause of insomnia is night’s sweats, or hot flushes that occur during sleep. For most women occasional insomnia isn’t much of a problem. But a wakeful night can leave you less than perky for the day at hand. Here are what women physician’s advices for those who crave some shut-eye. You need to turn the clock to the wall, because starting at the clock makes you more tense about getting back to sleep. Instead of checking the time concentrate on restful thoughts. Dial into your comfort zone, which make sure that your bedroom isn’t too hot or cold. Many individuals  sleep best in a cool room, so open the window when you turn out the lights.  If you haven’t gone to sleep after 20 minutes, you could try to head for another room and do something dull. If you distract your brain with something boring and stop fretting over wakefulness, you will nod off.

To prevent future episodes of sleeplessness you have to follow these advices.

Take a morning walk outside. Light exposure during the day helps keep your body clock regulated. An early morning walk in the daylight upon rising will help promote sleep at night.

Set a daytime worry hour. Set a concrete time for worrying during the day, be very focused about it. List each worry in writing with a plan for handling each one. When a worry wakes you, tell yourself that you have it covered and go back to sleep.

Resist the urge to nap. Napping during the day after a sleeplessness night will only throw your body clock off balance. You want to consolidate your sleep and get enough of it.

Set a bedtime. Adults need a regular bedtime, just like children, we have body clocks that synchronize our systems. Establish a set sleep and wake time, then stick to it every day. That tells your clock to make you sleepy at night and wakeful in the morning.

Wind down before you get into bed. Giving yourself about 45 minutes of quite time before you get into bed signals your body clock that the day is done and sleep time is imminent, listen some knowledgeable stuff, write a letter something boring, but do nothing that jazzes you up and nothing work related.

De-stress your bedroom, you perhaps don’t sleep in your office. Conversely, you shouldn’t work in your bedroom. Because your bedroom is for two things only sleeping and sex, so remove your computer your office reading pile, your fax machine, emails, and even your iphone, if you can, and put your TV in the sitting room.

Lose the Booze, if you need a good night’s sleep don’t have a nightcap, though you may feel relaxed at first, use of alcohol will disrupt your sleep later. Avoid drinking anything alcoholic, and offcourse avoiding caffeine is smart too.  Moreover there are solid proofs that smoking disrupts sleep, because nicotine is a stimulant. It raises blood pressures, gets your heart going faster and makes your brain more active.

if you have tired from everything and still can’t good sleep , then it’s time to see your doctor advice, she may refer you to a sleep disorders clinic for further evaluation.