[kristin]

i have had bad insomnia for the past couple of years. i have found that 10 mg THC gummies plus melatonin 3 . mg has helped me get a good night’ssleep where nothing else has worked consistently . this has been a huge improvement to my quality of life l.i live in Colorado where recreational cannabis is legal so i just pop down to my local dispensary to buy it. it’s boysenberry flavored and includes CBD so perhaps it is the same brand that others have mentioned using . i get a little groggy but i wouldn’t say i get “high”

[kristin]

Yes i have had big issues with sleep–both falling asleep and staying asleep! it has been debilitating. i think I have struggled my whole life with sleep issues , even before I was diagnosed with PD. I believe it runs in my family. My grandmother used to complain about insomnia and my sister has been on the sleep meds for years. i think she struggles with anxiety and years ago she a whole month where she was only getting 1-1 1/2 hours of sleep a night and she has been on a nightly sleep aide ever since. I have tried all the sleep medications out there and they seem to work for a couple of nights and then become ineffective with the exception of ambien which worked consistently but ambien causes my balance to completely go haywire causing me to fall. so the risk of injury is too great, When i retired I thought i would sleep better since I had nothing to worry about to keep me awake but my insomnia kept getting worse and worse! i finally got some help from a sleep psychologist Robert Glidewell who literally wrote the book on insomnia–well “a” book anyway (10 laws of insomnia), his book is excellent and he is a former insomniac so his book is half memoir and half informative/therapeutic. When I first came to see him he classified my insomnia as severe. I told him i had no idea why i couldn’t fall asleep and he told me that what triggered my insomnia is probably long gone ,, that anyone who has suffered insomnia for more than three months the insomnia gets a life of its own, it becomes a living breathing self- Perpetuating MONSTER,.. its a brain programming problem. Everything that I was doing to to compensate for my insomnia was actually teaching my body to not sleep in bed. I had to retrain my brain. And that’s really really helped a lot so get the book and read about reprogramming your brain but still there’d be some nights where I could not relax and this is what I learned about myself: I never thought about why I couldn’t sleep like everyone else i’m not very introspective so now that I’ve thought about it I realize that I have A really excitable personality so i get jazzed up so easily and it’s so hard for me to relax So I do take Sleep aids at night Trazodone to relax plus or minus melatonin +/- THC gummmies whatever I need to relax and I do need to learn how to relax! Go Buy that book!