Insomnia Blog

The National Sleep Foundation’s 2002 Sleep in America poll showed that 58% of adults in the U.S. experienced symptoms of insomnia each week. Insomnia is defined as having problems with either falling or staying asleep. Insomnia is often viewed as a symptom of another medical condition but this is not the case with primary insomnia.

Because of this fact The Patients Voice have decided to launch a blog into the effectiveness of the different treatments available for insomnia?

We are most interested into ways you have explored to treat and cure your insomnia. This may include homeopathic remedies, sleeping tablets, counselling or just changes in lifestyle?

Common medications include temazepam, flunitrazepam, triazolam, flurazepam, midazolam, nitrazepam and quazepam. In recent years using Melatonin has become more popular rather than the Benzodiazepines and other sedatives.

We are particularly interested in the following questions which help us understand the background to your treatment

• When did you start suffering from insomnia? Have you been formally diagnosed with insomnia?
• What do you think causes or caused your insomnia?
• What treatment have you used? How effective has it been? Was it prescribed by a physician?
• Have you had to make any drastic changes to your lifestyle because of your insomnia?
• What advice would you give to somebody who has just started to suffer from insomnia?
• Obviously these are just suggestions so please bring up anything you think other readers of the blog will find of interest. Please do include links to any site you have found helpful.

Remember, a blog is really like having a conversation with lots of people at the same time and so please check back on the blog to see what others have said so that if you would like to add to their thoughts you can.

To take part, all you need to do is scroll down to the comments area, type in a nickname of your choice and then put your comments into the box. We look forward to reading your comments and, of course, thank you very much for your input!