may content help for those sleeping badly

wish you all the best, I'm benzofree for 7 weeks now, and now I start to feel beter.  This is what helped me :

 

In the past 7 weeks after complete withdrawal, I studied hundreds of hours on serious sites about nutrition, herbs etc to diminish all kinds of problems remaining : poor digestion, no hunger, muscle cramps, blurred view.  I discovered really hundreds of positive things, just share with you what helps me a lot, the most, and what is quite simple to achieve :

1) My sleeping problems : the liver works intensively between midnight and 3 PM.  So we should not eat fatty and much proteins in the evening,

    this gives extra work for the liver, that can get exhausted by midnight... not able to do its cleaning job between 0 and 3 AM

2) I woke up a lot after 3 o'clock... from 3 AM the brain starts to release "wake up" hormones until 8 AM.  Putting down sugar level in the blood.

    A professor gave the advice, eat some dextrose with a bit of magnesium, within 10 minutes extra insulin comes in the blood, the wake-up hormones are 'blocked' and one sleeps another 1-2 hours.  It worked with me !

3) A good protein to digest, to „nourish the nerves“ seems to be ... egg white.

    I now cook often 5-6 eggs, throw away the yellow, and eat only the egg white.  My body really feels well after such a "dinner".

4) To calm down the adrenalin I feel constantly flowing since stopping the benzos : passiflora, and all herbs with rosmarin acid :

    oregano, basil, thymus, peppermint,.  I make tea of them but I eat then the complete leaves.

    Rosmarin acid would block some substance that makes us more nervous

5) Sage : I eat the complete leaves.  It makes me sweat a lot less in my sleep.

    I also eat cammolile flowers (slightly cooked).

6) Brazil nuts have awsome lots of selenium, I just eat some regularly.

    We tend to have lack of selenium and the brain seems to need it.

7) No gsm anymore next to my bed.  Complete darkness in the room makes a great difference

As I still have back pains since the benzo : a cushion between my knees, when I lie down on my side to sleep.

    This relieved a lot of back pain during the day !

9) I can't  eat sugar anymore.  I don't regret it.  When I do eat something with sugar, my intestines go crazy. (Except at night when I sometimes must take the bit of dextrose)

10) I can't drink coffee anymore.  When I drink it, my heart starts beating like mad.  I don't regret it.

      I even can t drink green tea anymore, I regret it a bit.  Caffein in tea can be "more" than in a coffee..  OF COURSE : any soda, lemonade, even fruit juice : it’s all like poison to me now.

Once you’re out of the sugar addiction (it’s like kicking off a drug, but it lasts 14 days only) one does develop aversion for sugar.  It is healthy for the brain and the body to quit sugar that… poisons us !  Think of it and get out of the collective sugar madness. 

Alcohol of course is just a poisonous drug, no more, like smoking. 

 

Another great source of information to understand the brain : 

https://poweronpoweroff.com/blogs/longform/a-guide-to-neurotransmitter-balance

 

Very important : enough oxygen during sleep.    I had my house full of... sanseverias; this is the only plant producing lots (!) of oxygen day AND night.  I had tens of pots in all rooms.  When I was under benzos I became so passive it seemed difficult to keep giving them water (once per week).  Now I "smile" about this but I regret having thrown them away.

But it grows back quickly... just take your scissors in the leaves, plant the cut leaves in the pot : it forms new racines by itself.

I write this, because in the 2 rooms where I removed the plants, it now stinks.  I had this never before.  So I'm going to put my sanseverias back in every room.  I know this sounds a bit ridiculous, but I put a plant in front of my office, every time I look at the plant, I get more calm.

When smoking was still allowed, all cafés were full of sanseverias to purify air. 

 

All sanseveria plants on earth come from a place in Congo.  A missionary brought it to an Exposition Universelle in Europe, from there, now hundreds of millions sanseverias are all over the planet.  So easy to grow, only needs lots of light (window!) and no frost.  Once per week or once per month water.  It does not matter much.  I could even survive months without water. 

 

    A last word for faith and morals : I love and adore God almighty and His Commandments. 

 

   

 

 

 

Thank you for all your insight this all makes a lot of sense! I am reading a book called Sleep Smarter and almost everything you mentioned is in this book! I really like the idea about getting off sugar! I am addicted how did you do it ? Did you follow a diet? Thank you so much for sharing I really appreciate it! I am 6 weeks off marijuana and Klonopin 3mg a day for 15 years. My sleep is just unmanaged to say the least! One thing that I think is helping me is getting off and putting away all the BLUE SCREENS 90 minutes before bedtime. That means no computer,TV,cell phone, tablet which is really hard. Thank you again take care!

Would you add your history to the bottom of your posts? That would be helpful.

Thank you!

How do you take the dextrose/magnesium?

Here area few things that I did wrong early and had to change. May know this but...I was stupidly drinking diet soda. Gave that up. I was eating some pizza or hotdogs. Gave that up. Eating frozen custard. Gave that up. Trying too many supplements without researching them. Gave them up. I stopped all supplements except for the few that I know don’t bother my body. Everyone seems to be different. Stopped all nighttime aids. I want my body to do it on its own. Maybe slowed healing down. Oh, well. We are healing. We will recover. As Dr. Ashton says, “Everyone heals.”

Yes...everyone heals to their pre-Benzo baseline given enough time.  Some are fast healers, some take longer, but everyone heals.  Healing doesn't mean fixing or "healing" preexisting conditions.  What works for you might not work for everyone.  Caffeine messed with me during WD, now I believe it might actually helps me sleep if I don't consume a lot of it?  At least it doesn't appear to affect my sleep at all now.  I spent a lot of time trying to "connect the dots" regarding sleep and what I ate or what supplement I took.  I know certain foods (sugar, caffeine and food high in glutamate or histamines) can affect some people?  However, when I stopped trying to connect the dots, I did a lot better.  Acceptance, distraction and gratitude for any sleep I got seemed to work better for me than anything else.  You need to do what is best for you though.  Now I eat anything I want and even have a beer or two here and there with zero issues.  Sleep returns.  Life goes back to "normal" and this Benzo nightmare eventually ends.