Posted by LOOPS on April 7, 2006, at 9:22:26
In reply to Re: dopamine / fish oil / melatonin, posted by qqqsimmons on April 6, 2006, at 18:48:59
I lied!
Last night I took 1mg melatonin as I couldn't see the harm in it even if it didn't work for me again. Basically I've sworn myself off any sleep meds and am willing to bite the bullet with insomnia instead, so as you can see I had nothing to lose.
WEll it worked again. Granted, my sleep was pretty broken and completely jam packed with dreaming and tossing and turning all night (had previously taken some P5P and cal/mag/zinc) but the point is I slept without meds.
A couple of days ago I had a 'sleep deprivation experience' which turned out pretty good ironically. Didn't get much sleep (let's say 4 hours tops), got up very groggy and then had a completely great day despite being tired. No anxiety, depression had lifted and motivation to do stuff round the house that I've been putting off for donkeys was high. Ended the day with a band practice which was storming then crashed into bed. Didn't actually sleep well after this, but then that isn't unusual.
So this is encouraging. It means that not getting enough sleep is not necessarily going to make me feel like pants the next day. Which is the original reason I started taking the sleeping pills.
I really think fish oil will potentiate anything else you take, but alone it never really did squat for me apart from if I took huge amounts and lowered all the other fats in my diet. Then it worked for depression but the anxiety started to get a bit high.
Loops
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