What is Insomnia?

Written by Jason Rickard


Insomnia does not necessarily mean that you can not get any sleep. More specifically, people with insomnia may just have a hard time going to sleep or wake up duringrepparttar night or just feel that their sleep is just not adequate enough.

Every individual is different in how many hours of sleep their bodies need to feel rested. When you feel deprived of sleep you may have problems performing your daily activities. You may feel tired all day long, or have bouts of being tired throughoutrepparttar 137312 day, you may experience a lack of energy, you may have trouble concentrating, and some people may become irritable and grouchy.

Insomnia can occur in any person no matterrepparttar 137313 age, culture or sex. Children have even been known to have bouts of insomnia.

It can be brought on by many different things including stress, noises around your home or outside, temperature changes in your environment, side effects to medications, and even can be due to jet lag. In children, insomnia may be come from stress due to nightmares or even problems at school.

Rebound headache - how to escape

Written by James Cottrill


You've been getting headaches. Finally, you find some medications that are making a difference. You're headaches are almost all gone – but wait – they're coming back! They're getting worse! The painkillers aren't doingrepparttar job they used to do. What's going on?

You may be a victim of “rebound headache”. Rebound headache is a common problem. It happens when you start trying to fight off headaches, and they start fighting back. What's often happening in rebound headache is thatrepparttar 137311 very drugs that used to solverepparttar 137312 problem are actually making things worse. If you start takingrepparttar 137313 drugs on a regular basis, your body actually gets used torepparttar 137314 medication and starts to crave it when it's not there. Thenrepparttar 137315 headaches get worse, so you take more drugs. The cycle goes on.

If you're suffering from a mild headache almost every day, you may have rebound headache. If you're taking pain relievers every 2-3 days, that's a sign that you're caught inrepparttar 137316 cycle. You may find that 3-4 hours after takingrepparttar 137317 drugsrepparttar 137318 headache gets even worse, or you may start waking up with headache.

How can you avoid getting caught in this trap?

The Mayo Clinic reports thatrepparttar 137319 pills most likely to cause rebound headache are drugs with a combination of ingredients, such as drugs that include combinations of caffeine, aspirin and acetaminophen, and migraine drugs like ergotamines and triptans (eg Imitrex). If you're taking a lot of painkillers, see your doctor and try to treatrepparttar 137320 problem. There may be newer and better treatments available.

Also, be sure you have at least two days that are drug-free between every day when you're taking painkillers. Some doctors suggest that you take no more than 10 doses a month. If you're taking much more than that, see a good doctor and look for other solutions.

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