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   XPost: alt.support.sleep-disorder, alt.alcohol   
   From: rdadams@panix.com   
      
   I suffer from chronic insomnia.  My experience is that   
   sleep comes more readily from medium alcohol and thick   
   malt.  A pint of a homemade Scotch Ale is more likely   
   to put me to sleep than is hard liqour.  The Scotch Ale   
   is made with 11 lbs of malt extract and is about 11%   
   alcohol.  Sometimes I fall asleep in my Lazy-Boy before   
   finishing it.   
      
   I discussed this with my Internist and a Sleep doctor.   
   They both agreed that a pint of beer a day was healthy.   
   However, they, as any other knowledgeable person would,   
   said that moderation is cool, inebriation is not cool.   
      
   Dick   
   ===   
      
      
   Gas Bag   wrote:   
   >X-No-Archive:   
   >   
   >Few sleep queries here. Hoping for some advice.   
   >I've found that if I have a *big* night on the booze, I sleep like the   
   >dead. More the point, I actually fall asleep easier than knocking the   
   >top off a beer. You could drop a bomb near my bed and I wouldn't even   
   >stir. It's great.   
   >But.....the following night (the night of the hangover), I find it's   
   >often harder to get to sleep than leaping tall buildings in a single   
   >bound. What's the resaon behind this? Remedy? (Other than simply not   
   >drinking)   
   >As a totally seperate issue, I've found that if I have just a few   
   >drinks on a totally separate night (hardly even tipsy), sometimes it's   
   >harder to fall asleep. Any comments here?   
   >Lastly, if you're on medication that has a side effect of very lucid   
   >dreams (on an almost nightly basis), is there anything that can be   
   >done about this?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)