Since I suffer from insomnia, which alcoholic drinks should I avoid like the plague, and which ones help you sleep like a baby?
2007-05-22 08:29:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
You should avoid ALL alcohol if you are an insomniac!!
I too have insomnia, and have learned the hard way that alcohol will initially make you sleepy, but will later raise your blood pressure making it almost impossible to sleep.
You'd be better off smoking a doobie (not that I advocate drug use).
Avoid alcohol, caffeine, and exercise 6 hours before you want to go to sleep, and maybe you should look at some prescription sleep aids.
Talk to your doctor, because you may have something else wrong that is making it hard to sleep.
Just remember, alcohol is bad, bad, bad for insomniacs!!!!
2007-05-22 08:41:21 · answer #1 · answered by hypno_toad1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-25 16:11:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!
1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.
2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.
The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.
After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net
Ohhh..and Good Luck!
2014-09-17 10:30:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cheery brandy, how wonderful, where do you purchase it? It sounds a lot better than the cheap Netto paint stripper I am resorted to buy these days, my sons should be keeping me in alcohol as they owe me for the years I wasted bringing them up but they all seemed to have moved away or joined religious cults.
2016-03-12 21:01:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alchol actually does not help you sleep better. It may cause you to nod off or pass out if you drink enough, but it does not cause restful sleep.
2007-05-22 08:37:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with alcohol is that although it is a depressant and will make you go to sleep, it messes up your sleep rhythms and you wind up waking up or being restless later in the night. You really should see your doctor.
2007-05-22 08:58:28 · answer #6 · answered by Juddles 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
anything with caffiene, but alcohol is a depressant so most any kind of alcohol would help you sleep. understand though that relying on a chemical substance to help induce sleep can be habbit forming and probably not good in the long run.
2007-05-22 08:38:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
All alcohol has a barbituate, or "downer" effect. Any of it should cause some drowsiness.
You might want to see if your insomnia is from another cause, thought, before you get hooked on nightcaps.
2007-05-22 08:32:42 · answer #8 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Drink enough, you will pass out
2007-05-22 08:33:10 · answer #9 · answered by wlinder 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋