i cant sleep at all, am i dying

[mike_d100]

been on zopoclone 15mg and mirtazapine 45mg to help me sleep for four years now. i was on olanzapine as well 10mg. the olanzapine also helped me to sleep. i'm not phycotic just have a very bad sleep problem.. the problem is the zop is no longer working and i am not sleeping at all. i mean not even for five minutes and it is happening day after day. my doc says there is nothing else she can give me and that i will have to manage. i think im dying. or will i eventually pass out or something to sleep. help

[mike_d100]

hi allymarbles,
                      ive ordered 7% solution from amazon. i'll take 1 drop three times a week and see how i get on.

cheers

[mike_d100]

thanks, i will give it a try. anything is worth a go. how long was it before you noticed an improvement

[allmymarbles]

First let me say that lack of iodine may not be the cause of your insomnia. However, iodine always used to be recommended as a sleep aid.

A supplemental dose would be 3 drops weekly of 5% Lugol's (take one on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). Mix it with water. If you are taking 2% then you would have to take one drop a day. Note that these are minimum dosages. I started with the the minimum and gradually increased. You will not get instant relief. The effect builds up over time.

By the way, it is thought that most people in America today are lacking iodine. This has to do with the adding of fluoride in our water which displaces iodine, and the switch from iodine in flour to bromide (again displacing iodine). This is by way of saying that the iodine would be beneficial to you even without the insomnia.

[mike_d100]

also do you take it orally

[mike_d100]

hi thanks for your advice what size bottle and cocentration do you use and how much do you use.  thanks

[allmymarbles]

I had a serious sleep problem for 35 years. It ultimately got so bad that I knew if I could not cure the condition I would die. You cannot exist without sleep.

then I had a stroke of good luck. I developed a craving for clams and could not get enough of them. I noticed that occasionally I slept. I realized I was seriously deficient in iodine. (Iodine is connected to sleep, by the way.) So I started taking Lugol's sotution (potassium iodide) and began to sleep..But it took two years for me to be relatively normal. I think that is because you have to overcome the habit of not sleeping, as well as lacking the iodine that make sleep possible.

I have since improved on my sleep protocol. I do not have an internal clock so I take 2 gm. of melatonin about an hour before I want to go to sleep.

I never bothered with sleep clinics, and I never assumed my problem was emotional or mental. I knew it was physical and, ultimately, it was that conviction that saved me.