Caffeine addiction can be a major cause of sleep loss and should be considered when looking for tips to cure insomnia.
In this article we will be discussing all aspects of caffeine addiction as well as one of the single best sleep loss cures available today.
Symptoms that can be caused by too much caffeine include shakiness, nervousness, irritability, palpitations of the heart, upsets in heart rhythms, low blood pressure, nausea, dizziness, stomach pain, diarrhea, frequent urination-and, of course, insomnia.
Caffeine has been shown to cause people to take longer to get to sleep, to cause more awakenings, and to lower the quality of sleep, even in people who are not aware of it.
Tips To Cure Insomnia: The Specific Effect To find out the specific effect of caffeine on your sleep, try the following experiment.
Eliminate caffeine from your diet for one week.
Have no coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, colas, other caffeine drinks, or caffeine medications such as headache pills.
If, after a caffeine-free week, you find that you're less nervous and tense and that you sleep better, caffeine may be something you should eliminate from your diet permanently.
This could be difficult at first - you may be addicted to caffeine.
In fact, most people have a headache for the first day or two as a withdrawal symptom, and it is not rare for a person to get very sleepy, have no energy, and actually feel sick.
Or you may be irritable, depressed, or tense.
If you are seriously addicted to caffeine, you may have to withdraw from it gradually-two or three cups less each week-to decrease any headache, jitteriness, or depression.
Tips To Cure Insomnia: Other Clues There are other clues to caffeine addiction-waking up in the middle of the night unless you've had a cup of coffee at bedtime or waking up with a headache on the mornings you sleep late.
If you usually have several cups of coffee in the morning, your afternoon headache at these times may be due to caffeine withdrawal.
If you often need to get up to urinate in the night or have trouble with urgency in the daytime, you may find that eliminating caffeine also eliminates this problem.
One urologist friend of ours said that of the patients coming to him with these urinary complaints, two out of three eliminated their symptoms simply by removing caffeine from their diets.
But if you really feel that you want some caffeine in your life (don't kid yourself, you don't need it), you can try gradually adding it back into your diet to check its effect.
Perhaps small amounts won't make any difference.
If you wish, try adding one caffeine drink a day back into your diet to test its effect.
A few days later, add another to determine just how much caffeine you can tolerate without becoming tense and staying awake.
With these tips to cure insomnia be careful that your caffeine addiction and insomnia don't start all over again.
It is usual to feel very good (sometimes euphoric) at first from the stimulation of the caffeine, but a few days later your insomnia may return.