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[proximoception]

Even the tiny amount of melatonin I take heightens light sensitivity, to the point where I have to cover up laptop lights etc. to get to sleep now. And I reliably wake sometime in the hour after dawn, so sleeping in doesn't really happen (in the summer anyway).

Not a major problem - if I want more sleep I can just go to bed earlier or not take the melatonin. Latter course keeps me up a bit later, of course.

Real exercise is hard to make time for while primary-caregiving but otherwise my life is much more organized and healthful now. Melatonin made it possible. In part by making regularized (not binge) tea intake possible.

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[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Is sustained reading getting easier?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Haven't had much time for it - Julie's been doing an intensive Comps thing so I pretty much just get naptimes off. But I'm quite rested, so I don't imagine it will be a problem. Reading on melatonin is out, though - too slow and I remember much less. Se finishes this week though.

[ensenchiridion.livejournal.com]

I recently read a little about gaboxadol but can't speak from experience - has it come up? My guess is you'd probably have to do some poking around to find it as it's come under some negative stigma due to mild psychedelic quality (which happens to be the same as in Ambien, but you know how people can be when they hear "psychedelic".) Also, apparently no amnesia with gaboxadol...

My experience is with Zopiclone, but I only use it occasionally, so it may not be useful for your situation.

Do you find wakefulness after melatonin is immediate? Unaided, I experience a morning fog, and sometimes with medication a morning fog, but with melatonin I wake up ready to climb out of my bed immediately.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Are you delayed phase / non-24 hour? Melatonin's the only drug that's been shown to really help us. It's not the drowsiness that does it (which is actually a big nuisance), it seems to be the nudge to our brains' own, sluggish melatonin production - so we take a tiny dose a comparatively long time before bedtime.

[ensenchiridion.livejournal.com]

I am not. I'm still learning of such things as make a luxury of themselves as one ages. I often marvel at your struggle, here, and am rooting for some semblance of regularity.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

The recent change has been from utter lifelong irregularity to perfect regularity, so no more rooting or marveling needed. (Knock on wood.) One of those things where you feel extremely lucky till you remember the earlier extremer unluck corrected.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

But to answer your question I wake up fog-free.