Comments on: Call Me Amy Winehouse

By: Mommin’ It Up! » Wide Awake

Mommin’ It Up! » Wide Awake — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:50:12 +0000

[...] past three nights I have slept very lightly, which used to be the norm, but since I’ve been drugging myself, is a rarity. I’m not sure why this is occurring, but I’d like to go back to my [...]

By: Alli

Alli — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:11:48 +0000

Man, I hadn’t thought of melatonin. Since the baby is almost sleeping through the night, I have a hard time sleeping through the times he used to get up (he only gets up once a night, for about 2 hours of screaming and my husband handles it). I was thinking of taking something like Ambien, but you are right melatonin is cheaper.

By: Harvard Housewife

Harvard Housewife — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:58:35 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation. I totally need it too. Sleep well!

By: Celia

Celia — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:56:57 +0000

Mmm, do you know if melatonin is ok while breastfeeding? I have sleep issues too, the biggest problem: a cute 3 month old who likes to be awake at night!

By: Mirullia Morneault

Mirullia Morneault — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:23:47 +0000

I have had lot of sleep problems, which got worse after I injured my neck. After I had surgery to fix it I was hardly sleeping at all, so my doctors gave me several different kind of sleep medications, including Ambien CR, and none of them worked. I can even remember taking the Ambien on my Honeymoon flight to Hawaii, were I didn’t sleep at ALL! Then my surgeon suggested the Melatonin, and it really worked, in fact it is the only thing that worked for me. I started taking 3 mg, but now I am down to 1.5 mg, and some nights I don’t have take it at all. I hope it works the same for you. Good luck!

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:47:17 +0000

you have a pill splitter? how old are you again? 83?

By: Trina

Trina — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:38:25 +0000

You have probably already tried this, but it nearly always works on me. I am not really into meditation or self-hypnosis but apparently this is a form of it.

Get comfortable. Starting with your toes, tell yourself that they are heavy and warm, repeat a couple of times, and feel them relax. Go up your body parts saying the same thing. Don’t let other thoughts intrude. I don’t think I have ever made it all the way to the top. Even when I think it will never work, it does.

I hope the melatonin does work. My husband uses it to overcome jet lag quickly.

By: Krista

Krista — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:58:57 +0000

Bummer. I hope the melatonin is enough to do the trick.

By: Uncle Paul

Uncle Paul — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:41:27 +0000

Just don’t go Amy WHINEhouse’s hairdresser! I’d hate to have to write about you on Fashion Friday!!

By: emily

emily — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:28:21 +0000

Don’t worry, readers. I promise to live-tweet and twit-pic the intervention as it happens.