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Rhythmic Movement Disorder, Can't take it anymore

Hello,

Is there anyone, I mean anyone, out there that has rhythmic movement disorder? I have been violently thrashing my body and head, laterally while asleep or mostly somewhat asleep since I can remember. I am 30 now. It use to consume maybe an hour or two a night but now it is getting drastically worse. I find myself doing it or am told that I, "rock", 4-5 hours a night. Apparently kids grow out of this and the remainder that carry this disorder into their adult lives are autistic or mentally challenged, which I am neither. My doctor prescribed me clonazepam, which does not work and I'm not taking an addictive, benzodiazepine for the rest of my life.
Does anyone relate to my problem and if so what treatments have worked for you? I'm going to go insane!
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I've already responded once this but after reading all these comments and realizing how many of us have same stories. I'm 54 and have been doing it since the day I was born. My mother said every morning the crib would be on the other side of the room, I destroyed 2 cribs, I do the head bashing face first into my pillow, some nights it's just gentle rocking sometimes it's extreme violent rocking sometimes it's just the leg other times it's rolling side-to-side. Nobody in my family will sit next to me at any event and they're constantly yelling at me to sit still. I don't even notice I'm doing it except when I'm really upset about something and then I find comfort in it. So those of you who are very young and Afraid you will not find a partner or spouse because of your rocking I have never had an issue with that. In fact it actually helps Rock them to sleep like a little baby  except for the nights that my mattress comes off the box springs.  I have always heard that banging your head is a sign of intelligence so be proud rockers!  Thank you for sharing all your stories I really believed I was the only one out there
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d_the_man,
   I know how you're feeling. Since I could lift my head, I bounced my head on my pillow.  My mom had to tie my crib to the wall so it wouldn't "walk" across the bedroom floor.  I'm 53 now and still "bounce" to get myself to sleep sometimes.  I find the urge stronger if I haven't worn myself out before I go to bed.  I tend to read on my back until I fall asleep.  That helps.
   When I was your age, I would go to sleep overs and try my best to be the last one to sleep.  I don't know about you, but I have also been known to "bounce" in my sleep.  So, when I would be seen doing that at sleep overs, my friends would wake me and tell me I must have been having a really bad dream! LOL  My very best friends knew and never said or thought anything about it.  It's nothing to be embarrassed about.  It is just your body expanding extra energy it has before you can sleep soundly.  During your trip, if you find yourself laying there not able to sleep, try shaking a leg while laying on your back.  There is nothing wrong with you!  You're just a little high strung and need to wind down before you can sleep.     HeyDee
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I suffered this from birth and up until recently. I was abused as a child and it is a way to release stress. It wasn't addressed when I was a child because it was assumed that I was doing it on purpose and I was punished when my humming or rocking was so loud that it woke up other people. I was made to sit at the kitchen table for 30 minutes as punishment. I was then sent back to bed and it was even worse...why no one made a connection is so crazy. But I've received therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and it has stopped nearly 100%. I still do it when I am sick (flu, fever, nauseated with vomiting) but to a much less degree. I just turned 39 a few months ago. I have never known it had a name and never knew anyone else. I was too ashamed to seek others and no doctor knew what I was talking about when I called it head banging. A few thought I was literally getting up in the middle of the night and banging my head against the wall...
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I am 37 and have had this my whole life quite bad. it has disrupted my sleep so much I didn't want to be alive anymore because it seemed hopeless and like there was no cure or relief in sight. Some of the latest evidence suggests it often happens in people with ADHD. Here's the rest of what I know:

- taking very deep breaths and getting a lot of oxygen tends to calm it down but it's not sustainable if I'm trying to sleep.

- someone rubbing my back stops it like magic, until the moment they stop and it comes right back immediately.

- the motion finds a place to live. if I try not to move my legs ill roll my head back n forth, if I try to stop that to I'll start moving my arm in a rhythm. It is like this thing that will find a way to manifest.

- Besides benzos there is no known treatment.

- It has not been studied and is basically an orphan's disease, meaning besides the benzos there is very little treatment and very little research.

- There's a very small  chance it could be sleep apnea but more likely if there was an onset and you didn't do it since childhood: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5612639/

- some evidence suggests it may stem from childhood neglect very early on like being left in your crib alone too long.

- Sleeping with a pile of pillows till I'm slightly sitting up sometimes helps.

- certain positions help some of the time, like if I tuck my legs in and hold my inner thigh with my hand.

- A weighted blanket reduces the severity.

- kratom can help dramatically.

- doing a combination of these things is the best bet like 3m rounds of Wim Hoff breathing, kratom, weighted blanket, elevated torso/head, etc.

- Sleeping next to someone isn't something to fear because it often lessens to symptoms. I tend to wiggle my toes like crazy if I'm sleeping next to someone. Like I can force the compulsion into my toes if someone's next to me but not when I'm alone.

- edibles help but hard hard to get and it's still not guaranteed to help.

- after battling my entire life I can honestly say I want a machine that simulates someone rubbing my back with their hand. I could just turn that machine on and fall asleep. I am sure it would work if it could replicate the same sensation.

that also makes it feel kind of sad and pathetic though, like it's totally in my head. Not really though it's more like a dysregulation of the nervous system.

I have heard Imipramine has helped some folks. I have not tried it. clonzepam didn't do much fore me and I think it was making me jolt randomly with was even worse than the ASRRMD.  

I will be doing a sleep study soon since I finally have decent health insurance.
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Hi all,
I am 29 years old now and always have had issues dealing with RMD. Recently decided to 'look' into it again since in the past I gave up going to doctor's. Now that I am older, decided to make an appointment at a sleeping clinic.

I can absolutely relate to almost all which was posted here and feel for you all. I've suffered from body rocking and especially head banging ever since I can remember. My condition was pretty bad with episodes lasting for hours and especially when younger, throughout the day. Even at school! This part I had to dropped when I moved countries and went to highschool.. the fear was too great. For a long time I've also been in long term relationships, ever since I turned 16 and always had big preference to live together or sleep together. The fear of my gf finding out, calmed me in a way and prevented me from doing it, even during my sleep.  It does not take away the huge urge though.

I will save some stories about how bad it is and how it affects, I think most of you who have it even a bit sever like me... would know it's an awful thing that hunts you even in your sleep. With that being said, aside from having someone who gives me this fear that they might find out, I only found another 'medicine' that helped me. I would not take any pills, as I am scared for additions and the side effects, but I found out since 2 years that marihuana really helps me. Firstly it calms and makes you doze off already. Secondly it the high feeling makes that you don't wanna bang your head... it will simply make you nausea.

By no means I want that to be my only solution, cause I still suffer from the urge (not as much when high) but whenever during the day, even when writing this article I am focusing most of my brains to not start rocking. For this reason I am also going to the sleeping clinic, and will try other form of therapy as well.

Good recovery all and share any good news!
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I'm 54 and I've had it since the day I was born. my mother said I went through two cribs and to this day I cannot keep sheets on the mattress and the mattress is usually halfway off the box springs in the morning. I didn't even know there was a name for it
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Oh, I can add that after THC intake If I am trying to rock in bed I get disgorge (puke) feeling so I automaticly stop to rock after two-three moves. So if your children do not stop this until 8yo, parents should think about thc oil. If you are adult you decide for your own.

Even when I was sleeping (as a child and adult) mostly I had nightmare's. After cannabis I had no dream at all. That is to beautiful that can be true. But it is! Lieing in bed for 7 hours without move - this what I need after my short (long rocking) life.

The problem is, that is illegal (law and mental) and doctors do not know nothing about RMD in Poland. They still call that 'choroba sieroca' (orphans illnes).


Magic plant is the cure in RMD. Like in epilepsy.
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Yellow RMD rockers. I am 34, rocking since 1yo. I can do it all night/day long, mostly not sleep at all. Typicaly RMD people takes 3-15 minuts of rocks and then they go to sleep. Me 'normaly' takes 2-3 hours or more and after short sleep (2-3 hours) I am rocking again for hours. Whole my life I was very exercised and sporty, always doing things for 110%.
Now in age 34 I have NO energy left. My head is very painfull and my heart is weak. (after RMD nights)

The only things is helping me is smoking cannabis (marihuana) thc implementation. After inhalation I am sleeping like a child (min. 7 hours) and in the morning I now what to do:
healthy breakfast, coffee and cigarette (nicotine), then some house work or newspaper or shoping and then the 1st blunt and then I am happy that I am living! and being! Doing everything what normal people do, but maybe little more lazy....
For me it is worth being like that and sleeping and regenerating at night.

THC is making HUNDREDS percent more of melatonina in the pineal gland. The best results I get smoking all day, every 2-3-4 hours. In my country (Poland) it's illegal, so I can not have propper access. So the treatment is selectively.

After inhalation I feel like REAL human, but nobody is accepting this, becouse they still think that Ganja = Devil.

What is another method? Antidepresant's. But this **** will destroy your body, orgasm and everything. So I do not even try it. NEVER ever.
And there is no evidence that in my hard RMD symptom will help.

The problem is in da BRAIN - that 4 shure.
I think that we have defective pineal gland.
Some of us more, some less.....
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I am 52 and I have been rocking myself to sleep as long as I can remember about age 5. I rock my whole body from side to side. If I am worrying about anything I tend to rock faster and wake up looking like I have been dragged through a bush backward. I am able to control it at times only tend to suffer with the problem when I sleep alone that's my assessment over the years. Neither of my girls suffer with the problem. On a good note think it's helped me to keep the weight of a none stop work out.
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Wow, didn't realize so many others had this.  I'm 48, and I rocked my head side to side in bed to get to sleep, preferably with radio on, until it tapered off in college.  I would only do it when my roommates were out for the night.  After college it picked up again for a couple years since I had my own apartment, but I stopped immediately whenever I had a girlfriend over and, eventually, live in girlfriends, due to embarrassment if anyone ever found out (I figured I was the only one in the world who did it).

In my early childhood, I used to bang my head back and forth in the car and on chairs while watching television.  Parents were not happy about this and often tried to correct me as I reached about 7 or 8. After that, I quit on my own because it was too embarrassing to do it in public.

I had a normal childhood, no mental or physical issues to speak of.  Sometimes I wondered if I had a very low level of autism or something, or just an obsessive compulsive thing going on.  It was very soothing and definitely helped me get to sleep when I was younger; the thought of not doing it to get to sleep seemed incomprehensible to me and I did have some anxiety when I went to college as I wondered to myself, how in the world am I going to quit cold turkey because there was no way I wanted anyone to know.
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My husband of 15 years also bangs his head violently.  Needless to say, we have never shared a room.  I am a person that needs sleep.
We have a daughter that does the same thing.  But her rocking affects her capability to function during school and has a very negative affect on her academic achievement.
Has your husband sought a second opinion?
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Anyone who struggles with body rocking, rhythmic leg movements, head movements, etc. ...I've had it my whole life. I just made a video about the treatment that I have crafted for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Wkie62R04
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I'll tell you my short story hell....
I am almost 41. Since I was 2-3 I have had the most severe form of this. Never bothered me because I would sleep better when I did it. From what I've been told it started when my parents first started fighting at night and then at 3 they divorced. As I got older I tended to do it more when I was cold at night. My body temp is always 1-2 degrees below 98.6 so at night when sleeping my body temp would drop more. As I got older into highschool I quickly stopped all sports because of  the away games. All my life I always had girls women and even one of my female teachers....all women liked me and/or wanted to lay with me.  I was always shy and moved around and was the new person at school/town/work. EVERY girl/woman I dated always loved me and then it would get to the point at every relationship of sex and spending the night. the next day was them leaving me. I would even tell them my condition before hand, but until they actually saw it, I guess it scared the hell out of them. the internet wasn't around then and I thought I was the only one. I decided to google it a few years ago not knowing it had a name. I was brought to sleep clinics and no one knew what to make I it, even my mom and step mom who were nurses. As it turns out...being from a typical dysfunctional family, since I was young all I wanted was to have my own family, not be divorced -"and to provide for them. I graduated 1.5 years early and started in my career. At 41 I still have no family, and after being in the Bay Area making &50/hour  I found out with a single income I can't buy a house. So I keep moving trying to find where to settle and the curse has left me at about 36 years of age. I've lost friends and girlfriends and even 2 fiancés over this ****. Being 40 and not having a family my employer won't offer me any promotions because I'm looked at as something is wrong with me. I am always the best in any company within my trade and now it's the younger people with new families promoted. It's so bad now that I get 8 months per year of work an that's because I'm one of a handful of people that know how to do certain things in my trade. I am a union electrician, and they only call me in to do the main electrical rooms and generators and batteries for anything critical that must never go down. I have only worked for one company in the union but because I have no family I am the one who sits at home because they wouldn't lay me off. I'm too valuable. Needless to say I know that because of my looks, and what I can do, and how much I make, and what I'm needed for in my trade....I am only wanted for that, and I usually have to train my bosses or they dump it on me if they don't know. I should be working all year and be the boss but I have no family. The only reason I don't have one isn because of this sleep disorder. Any woman I dated loved me and I knew that there's nothing wrong with me. I have excellent credit, no debt, always help others, etc. but I know as soon asi would hear them tell me how "amazing" I was then as soon as we spend the night....they would leave. Now my dad died a few years ago and not only am single, no house, etc. my parents at least my dad, died thinking in a failure in life. I wouldn't wish this **** on anyone. The only thing I now have in my favor is that I will be 41 in July and I still look 30. As soon as I start looking my age then my career will be done because in today's safety culture and with the abusiceuncle idiots in management, I will get less hours. I been in my trade 22 years now.....I hate this condition and it sometimes comes back when its cold during my sleep.
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Here's another 'rocker' with her story.  I am 67 years old and have rocked myself to sleep ALL MY LIFE!!!  I can remember back when I was four or five years old sitting upright in my aunt's overstuffed chair and bouncing my head on the back cushion until I went to sleep, too.  
My rocking is mostly done subconsciously. If I think about it, I can control it.  But if my brain gets sidetracked reading or watching tv, it kicks in automatically.  The majority of time I am unaware I am rocking with such fervor and my dear, dear husband of 45 years occasionally will shout my name and startle me,  and then I can stop. We have a very firm bed and usually my rocking doesn't bother him.  But there are times . . .  
I have tried sleep aids, both natural and Rx, pain meds, OTC and Rx, alcohol, food, sex, hot tub, constant movement, exercise or hard physical work to the point of fatigue and nothing stops it. The work and fatigue just makes the fibromyalgia flare up.  I have found no cure for my rocking, but I can control it most of the time by being aware of the movement.
Strangely enough, the rocking is very comforting at times.  I didn't read all of the comments above, so I don't know if anybody addressed the possibility of RMD being heriditary.  I don't know that any of my siblings or parents had this quirk, but about four years ago I noticed one of my grandsons bouncing his head on the couch while he was watching tv.  He and his twin both rocked when they were real little, especially at bedtime.
I guess it's just mind over matter.  And like Maxine would say: Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!!! lol
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Hi everyone,
I am the wife of a lifelong "rocker". I can tell you it isn't easy. I am tired all the time. Sometimes I can actually get to sleep, but a lot of the time I go to our guestroom to sleep. I have tried earplugs, and a different mattress, but nothing helps.
My husband went to a sleep clinic 10 years ago and they basically said to him, "Ya, you rock". Wow thanks Doctors!! If he isn't rocking, he is snoring very loud, and sometimes has sleep apnea (stops breathing for a period)
It scares the hell out of me!
I just stumbled on this site today, and was so surprised to see so many people here with the disorder!! The bigger surprise though is that no doctors have posted any comments... isn't this site supposed to comment, and suggest some help?
And by the way, none of you need to worry or be embarrassed with anyone. When I met and fell in love with my husband it had no affect on loving him or wanting to be with him. To me it was just a quirky thing. We have been married 15 years, and sometimes (I want to throttle him !... :) but mostly it doesn't affect us.

I do hope something can be found to help! Keep posting!
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Hi everyone,
I am the wife of a lifelong "rocker". I can tell you it isn't easy. I am tired all the time. Sometimes I can actually get to sleep, but a lot of the time I go to our guestroom to sleep. I have tried earplugs, and a different mattress, but nothing helps.
My husband went to a sleep clinic 10 years ago and they basically said to him, "Ya, you rock". Wow thanks Doctors!! If he isn't rocking, he is snoring very loud, and sometimes has sleep apnea (stops breathing for a period)
It scares the hell out of me!
I just stumbled on this site today, and was so surprised to see so many people here with the disorder!! The bigger surprise though is that no doctors have posted any comments... isn't this site supposed to comment, and suggest some help?
And by the way, none of you need to worry or be embarrassed with anyone. When I met and fell in love with my husband it had no affect on loving him or wanting to be with him. To me it was just a quirky thing. We have been married 15 years, and sometimes (I want to throttle him !... :) but mostly it doesn't affect us.

I do hope something can be found to help! Keep posting!
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Hello, Doing some research on RMD for my 2.5yo and came across this post.

I wonder whether you have had any success with the 'hallelujah diet'? My thoughts are around whether or not this condition could have some link to additives, preservatives and the like.

Hoping your still online  :)

Many Thanks
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I guess I should start by saying that I don't rock or bounce my head, but.....

I am a 56 year old woman. I have been rocking the bed, or kicking my leg literally all of my life. As a young child, my first memory of my father was how it felt, and sounded, when he would come in my room and beat me through my diaper for "horseying" in my crib. I guess I would move the bed across the floor. (I found this out when I confronted my father about the beatings).

When the horseying stopped, the kicking began. I kick my leg, one or the other, all night long. I remember my mother coming into my room and catching a leg, holding onto it for a minute, then laying it down. Usually the kicking would resume before she got back to bed. (then dad would scream)

I have taken medications off and on in my adult years to no avail...I guess I am just destined to kick. I do find it comforting to know that I am not alone in this.

Thanks for allowing me to vent,
Judy
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Hi everyone,

I'm 30 and been rocking my head/body to sleep since i was a baby. It has never really caused any problems for me. As a child I shared a room with my brothers and it annoyed the crap out of my older brother, so he would get me to stop, so i would wait till he was asleep and rock away.  Fast forward to now, I'm married and have a 3 year old (who does not rock her head).  I think the rocking annoys my wife a bit, but not too much. As i learned from childhood, I try not to rock much when she is awake. I find it to be semi-voluntary, most of the time i know I'm doing it or do it on purpose, but some times i find my head rocking without consciously starting to do it. I can go for long periods where i stop myself from doing it, but have found that its not really worth the bother.

Trying to describe why i do it to someone else is difficult, as i don't really know why i do it. But if i had to try i would say that there is a kind of pressure/stiffness at the base of my skull/back of neck and rocking relaxes that feeling. Also a good strong massage of the neck helps me.

Anyway to conclude, I have gotten used to it and it doesn't hinder my life in any way, nor does it seems to have caused any brain damage:)  I haven't ever tried to find a medical solution to this and don't think its worth taking drugs over. Some of you may have a stronger/worse case and it might aversely affect your life and I hope you find a solution that works for you.
A good night to you all!

Erik
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Hi there,
Just came across this web site by accident, I'm 46 & have been rocking my bed for as long as I can remember.
I honestly thought I was the only one & was a complete weirdo, I've been through so many relationships because I've tried to hide it from my girlfriends, how do you explain to someone that you're a grown man but you rock the bed.

when I was younger I was hyperactive (think that's now called ADHD) but my family didn't know any better so they used to batter (hit me) to stop me from being so hyper. I was repeatedly beaten or so I been told, as I fell heavily when I was 10 & seriously fractured my skull (frontal lobe). I don't know if this has anything to do with the way I am now but I totally lost my memory & have no recollection of my younger years.
I also have Restless Leg Sydrome & have been given Mirapixen & also Dyhydramine (sleeping tablets) to help me sleep, I also take a combination of Cocodamol & Anti inflammatries to help me sleep but still struggle most night to get a good night sleep & I stick rock myself to sleep most night.

Since coming across this site I'm going to go & see my doctor & find out if there is anything else they can do to help, as I'm in the UK we have the NHS so hopefully it shouldn't cost me too much but too be honest I'd sell my house for a good night sleep.

So glad to know I'm not alone & there are at least another few others out there like me.
All the best to all of you in your search for a good nights sleep.

Kevin
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Except for the age I stopped, this was exactly my experience. It means a lot to me to read so many other people do the same thing - I really thought I was the only one for my whole life, or had some undiagnosed condition of some kind. For myself it had a calming effect, but was also hypnotic and sometimes gave my thoughts a daydreaming feeling, and other times a more obsessively analytical bent.

At first I rocked at night in my sleep (or trying to get to sleep?) but later on I would do it to music. Same as a lot of posters have described - I did it when I felt happy, or distressed or anxious, or for no real reason. I felt I was able to let something out of me or feel something that couldn't come out any other way. I would listen very closely to music when I rocked, sometimes playing a song I liked over and over (I've been a musician since I was about 12).  I was humiliated a few times in my life when family or friends found me doing it - I  always tried to be very careful and hid it from friends or girlfriends. I went through a few periods of depression or stress where it intensified - I guess because of the soothing nature. The desire for it would stop when I was in relationships and living with someone, but would always come back when I was alone.

I don't know why exactly but it stopped when I was 42. I have a wonderful partner and a young daughter, so perhaps this has something to do with it. But another thing that changed around that time is I started doing traditional Rinzai zazen every day  (maybe 20 minutes/half hour every day). I won't go into zazen here, but I really wonder if something about this meditation practice changed something on a deeper level. I don't personally think rocking is a 'condition' or something to be medicated away - the shame bad feelings about it come more from all the social things.

I'm blown away to read everyone's stories here!
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My mom had the same problem where she would lay on her stomach and bang her head on her pillow to sleep she tried to fix it my just moving her leg then her toes then she ended up stopping all together but my sister ended up having it as well she has tried time and time again to stop but hasnt been able to find a way how shes also perfectly normal and recived good grades in school. At the moment im trying to major in behavior health and am trying to gather more information for my thesis about people who have had this problem passed down threw lineage without a mental disorter like autism being involved if you could please give me more info on your and your sisters condition you can email me at ***@****
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I am 36 years old. After an all night session of body rolling, i would wake up and my hair would look like Medusa. Actually earning myself the nickname as a teenager from my friends. I seem to get plenty of rest even with my body rolling. However, in the past few years, i have been in a car accident that created a narrowing of my spinal chord at the base of my neck. This body rolling has to stop as i wake up every day in terrible pain all through my back. This pain does subside throughout the day, but i wonder what damages I am causing to my body at this time. When i went to a chiropractor for the first time ever, he took x-rays and found that i was lacking any curvature to my neck and lower spine. It is unclear if this is caused by the body rolling or the car accident. I have always had stiff muscles in my neck and upper back most likely relating to my sleeping movements and lack of ability for those muscles to rest while i am asleep.
I have been into herbs since i was a teenager, and have tried several of them as sleep aids. Very few of them worked. Melatonin worked for a day then the next I was back to "rocking". I have tried over the counter sleep aids, the effects were always short lived. maybe a night or two. I took a temazepam once and woke up groggy and hungover for the better part of the following day. wont be doing that again. But to get to the point... I saw something about rick simpson oil having an effect on involuntary movements of parkinson's disease, which my grandmother had... and an effect muscle spasms, and inflamation reduction which i suffer from on a chronic level given my spinal damage, and decided to try it. I do not live in a state where marijuana is legal, so i took the next best approach... I ordered in Hemp tea from europe and made the oil with it. Hemp is the same species as the pot plant but is a variety that contains little or no thc therefore it is f\perfectly legal in all 50 states. It contains a compound called cbd and another called cbn. These two compounds are the medicine behind medical marijuana. I have included this oil into 2 forms that I use daily. i make drops from the oil by mixing the thick tar like sludge into vegetable glycerin and drop under my tongue int he morning. and i add it to my e-liquid (no nicotine) for use in my e-cig for all day use in vapor form. It has taken me about 3 weeks from the time i started using it to start to see results. I am now in week 4 of "treatment" of course self prescribed.... and i have not looked like medusa for the last 3 days when i wake up in the morning. My boyfriend has said he has slept better too since I have been doing this. Maybe this will help you too.
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I am 36 years old. After an all night session of body rolling, i would wake up and my hair would look like Medusa. Actually earning myself the nickname as a teenager from my friends. I seem to get plenty of rest even with my body rolling. However, in the past few years, i have been in a car accident that created a narrowing of my spinal chord at the base of my neck. This body rolling has to stop as i wake up every day in terrible pain all through my back. This pain does subside throughout the day, but i wonder what damages I am causing to my body at this time. When i went to a chiropractor for the first time ever, he took x-rays and found that i was lacking any curvature to my neck and lower spine. It is unclear if this is caused by the body rolling or the car accident. I have always had stiff muscles in my neck and upper back most likely relating to my sleeping movements and lack of ability for those muscles to rest while i am asleep.
I have been into herbs since i was a teenager, and have tried several of them as sleep aids. Very few of them worked. Melatonin worked for a day then the next I was back to "rocking". I have tried over the counter sleep aids, the effects were always short lived. maybe a night or two. I took a temazepam once and woke up groggy and hungover for the better part of the following day. wont be doing that again. But to get to the point... I saw something about rick simpson oil having an effect on involuntary movements of parkinson's disease, which my grandmother had... and an effect muscle spasms, and inflamation reduction which i suffer from on a chronic level given my spinal damage, and decided to try it. I do not live in a state where marijuana is legal, so i took the next best approach... I ordered in Hemp tea from europe and made the oil with it. Hemp is the same species as the pot plant but is a variety that contains little or no thc therefore it is f\perfectly legal in all 50 states. It contains a compound called cbd and another called cbn. These two compounds are the medicine behind medical marijuana. I have included this oil into 2 forms that I use daily. i make drops from the oil by mixing the thick tar like sludge into vegetable glycerin and drop under my tongue int he morning. and i add it to my e-liquid (no nicotine) for use in my e-cig for all day use in vapor form. It has taken me about 3 weeks from the time i started using it to start to see results. I am now in week 4 of "treatment" of course self prescribed.... and i have not looked like medusa for the last 3 days when i wake up in the morning. My boyfriend has said he has slept better too since I have been doing this. Maybe this will help you too.
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