Re: Started Today

[Anonymous]

Hi Nellie,

We are using the blue light and also the wakeup light (both by Phillips). I find the wakeup light the most useful, it gradually increases the light (to the level you pre-determine) over a half hour period until the alarm. So your body is getting signals from the light in the room that it’s time to wake up. Then I sit with the blue light (doing morning meditation) for a half an hour. I am minimizing caffeine these days, never was a real caffeine junky, but I find it’s a bit of an irritant for my bladder.

Sleep is really important for me, but I have a sleep disorder, so I’m paying really close attention to that. We’re using the amber glasses at night and really starting to quiet down an hour before bed if we can.

Yesterday I felt very strange before my second dose of meds at 11:30, I guess I hadn’t had the right breakfast, I was feeling weak, light-headed, luckily I had a lunch prepared to eat, so i took my meds and ate it and all was well. The ADHD psychiatrist I saw said that we (my husband and I, not sure if this applies to all with ADHD but it might) should be eating smaller more frequent meals, like 7 a day rather than 3. He also said that if you don’t eat breakfast, you’re basically starving yourself (and your brain) for too many hours. So we actually have a tiny snack before going to bed, and are trying to remember to snack a bit more frequently. The big meals really bog me down, I’m a vegetarian so it’s a faint memory now, but big Thanksgiving or Christmas meals (which my birth family still does) would cause everyone to slow down and sleep, it seems! Major brain fog.

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