Life Turned Upside Down!

[wackyjacky1]

Melatonin helps me get to sleep when I'm feeling restless. Try taking one about 20 minutes before you need to go to bed. Benadryl works, too. Since it's cedar season down here, lately I've been taking a Benadryl at bedtime. It does double-duty for me: helps me get to sleep and helps to reduce my allergy symptoms (cedar is a b#$%# ).

[Biciclista]

the way i get my clock set when i travel internationally is that i get outside
in the daylight first thing i can; drink coffee/tea first thing in the morning and at bedtime take a nice hot bath.

the sun really helps set your clock. In two weeks, though, like you suggested, you will be fine.

[sfa]

My husband works nights four days a week and generally has to be awake days on the other three days, so he switches back and forth all the time. He finds that melatonin helps when he has to trigger his body to know when to sleep (especially when he's sleeping nights) and he got a prescription for provigil that he takes occasionally when he needs to be awake/alert when his body is telling him to sleep.

Since you're making the shift permanent, you might want to try melatonin about a half an hour before bedtime for just a few days. You don't want to use it too often or too much since that might inhibit natural production of it, but it may speed up the process of readjusting your body to sleeping at night.

Sarah

[wildhawk]

Thanks everyone! I will give the melatonin a try too. Yesterday (my first day) it rained all day which did not help. I was so tired when I got home that I fell asleep on the couch and did not wake up until midnight - not good since I have to be up a 5 am. Today went a lot smoother and I am doing better. I am hoping to get at least 7 hours sleep tonight. And both DH and I are looking forward to spring when we can go riding after work. We have the moonlight ride Sunday night so hopefully it will not be too cold - it is supposed to get down into the 30s here tomorrow night - now that’s cold for us Floridians - brrr!