hi, I thought I'd tried everything until I saw the info about the blue blocking light idea--I feel like screaming because there are so many of you that have the same problem with sleep--I feel so frustrated and alone--upside down-- with sleep (now that I finally get some since I didn't sleep for the first couple of years except for about an hour and a half a night-- omg that was hell) cfs since 2001
- now it's later and later i get to sleep at about 6-7am and wake around 3pm. it's winter- I only see the sun go down every day...feeling like a vampire. This has been going on for years. I tried staying up all "night" (24 +hrsday) but would get more sick with cfs crashing. that doesn't work-so had to take what sleep I could and then of course boom right back to the upside sleep sched.
my brain just can't process the info here most of the time-that underwater flu thing brain fog makes it hard to follow the info but I really need/want to get back on a day/night sched with the rest of the world.
I can't take heavy duty prescription drugs that are addictive. I tried melatonin, (along with with trytophan and magnesium) years ago it worked for a while. two wks ago i started with 25 mg of elavil at bedtime (taking it around 2am) but its not taken effect (yet) still hoping. I go to bed and read at about midnight hoping to get sleepy. Then falling asleep in the morning at about 6-7am until 3-4pm that is the best sleep, anything from 8am to 1pm--with all light blocked out of my room or there's no way I'd get any sleep at all ever.
so I have to wear glasses -amber/yellow? and block light from my monitor,--ipad, and tv too?