What do you do to sleep better? Let's share our tips!

As a child I would rock myself till I was worn out enough to sleep, and yes I would play outside most days, back then called it just being a boy, now probably ADHD or such.

as an early teen I found meditation and what now is called mindfulness.

now I have now screen time about an hour before I plan to go to bed, listen to very soft classical guitar music, room tem set for 68-67, sit quietly and release any tension, worries, I try to just empty my mind, brush teeth and into bed,

I have one of those sleep number beds, the built in sensors say I usually fall asleep in 5-10 min, and sleep pretty much the whole night with some normal tossing and turning.

i also have an app on my phone that records for snoring, phone is face down so no light, and in the morning I can look at the readouts from phone and bed, and I have learned that when their readings are under 75%, I am gonna have a lousy day. So then I try and remember what about the day before that may have caused a less night of sleep, and try and lessen what ever I might remember.

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I have terrible insomnia which started in my 50's. Prior to that I was an early bird, more diurnal and less nocturnal. This runs in my family and is very debilitating, especially when I quite literally, and I mean that in literal sense, sometimes will go 36=48 hours without sleep.

Sleep hygiene, not drinking anything caffeinated after 2PM, setting my alarm for early in the day and going to be at the same time every night when possible, not online surfing, reading texts or watching TV in my bedroom on my bed, excercising daily for 20-40 minutes, getting out in the sun, and herbal tea for sleep, and/or herbal pills for sleep. Not exercising, eating or drinking any alcohol at least 3 hours before bed and meditation and/or sleep music which there's a wide variety of on UTube, several of which have black screens to prevent the blue light from electronics that can interfere with sleep

I’ll go through phases where I can’t fall asleep until 4am. I sleep best when the sun comes up. I take Trazadone, Gabapentin, and Zyprexa if necessary. I can’t sleep at all if I don’t take this medicine. It’s worth it and I’m happy they work

@Janderdtin thanks for info. I take Seroquel, but picked up some melatonin today. Gonna try it tonight. Also in process of getting full face mask for CPAP. I've waited for what seems like forever!! Have fitting to be scheduled next week. That DME store & myself played phone tag most of yesterday p.m. when I got home from work. Must call Tues. This is more than frustrating!! I feel for u.

I usually sleep fairly well, even though I am up to the bathroom a couple of times every night. But on days when I've had chemotherapy, I need help to overcome the dexamethasone that I get in my infusion to help prevent nausea. Thankfully it does keep the nausea away, but at bedtime on chemo days I need a lorazepam and a SleepSana to help me sleep. SleepSana is a little bottle of liquid that looks a lot like an energy shot, but it has melatonin, tryptophan, valerian and B vitamins. That combination seems to do the trick for me!

I take 800 mg of neurotin

.25 Mirapex for restless legs

20 mg baclofen

Still with an avap which is a level between a coal and a ventilator i still take forever to sleep. Legs are the biggest bother. I do a good job unwinding just still not resting a while

At a half hour before my appointed bedtime I do the app Loóna, it relaxes me and clears my mind of any nagging thoughts, you color a beautiful landscape while listening to background music and are read a nice fairy tale, it is very whimsical

setting a regular bedtime is important, I go to bed at 10:00pm every night and do loóna app at 9:30pm, so that your body has a nighttime ritual

Hi, I find that having more or less fixed hours for bedtime and waking up helped me. It hasn't been easy at the beginning, but with time I got used to it, and I am now quite regular with my bedtime and waking hours, with some exceptions of course.

But sometimes there is nothing I can do, I just can't fall asleep and lie awake for hours, thinking and thinking an thinking. Thhe following day I'm a complete mess, of course.

My brother has been sending me his "special cookies"and brownies that he makes himself He puts in a certain amount of "weed" and it works for me extremely well. I usually have a cookie or a brownie about 90 minutes before hit the sack. Been doing this for over 4 years, and I sleep like a baby....