SLEEP: a treatment for POIS?

[demografx]

SLEEP has always been important to me as an adjunct to my main treatment of testosterone.

Once, on POIS:Day Zero (the day of POIS onset), I slept - - or kept my eyes closed - - day and night, almost round the clock, including *forced sleep* with Benadryl (but only taken as directed). The result: a much, much easier POIS:Day One.

This is not easy to implement, I know, especially with work, school, family, responsibilities, etc. But even short snoozes/naps help me.

Any other similar experiences?

[Muon]

Yes more sleep gives me faster recovery times and less intensive POIS. But..this needs to be sleep, laying in bed awake doesn't work. When I put too many blankets on top of me and getting too warm as a results it has the opposite effect, I can wake up completely wrecked. I suspect the sleeping period being beneficial has to do with trigger avoidance. You barely move in your sleep, you are not eating, temperature is pretty stable. Perhaps hormones could play a role here, I don't know. I don't see how it could be a treatment though.

[demografx]

Thanks, Muon.

[b_jim]

Agree. The recovery is shorter if I have a good night of sleep.
Bodybuilders recommand to have good sleep after training and less stress to optimize testosterone levels, reduce cortisol and then increase muscle growth.

[Muon]

I noticed that my brain switches to a slightly tense state as soon as I wake up. I'm starting to think that the brain is in an overactive state. The sleeping will help because it calms down the brain.

[swell]

Have you considered that you might be in a De-realized state? (known as depersonalization/derealization disorder).  I think I have it at least to some degree - the feeling as if one is living through a dream.  I did not think this before, but POIS may even be a manifestation of derealization - traumatic events that we underwent during childhood causing a chronically heightened fight/flight response, where we learnt this depersonalization as a coping method/strategy for survival, and since it has been so chronic, that now we dont even realize that we are frozen in this chronic fight/flight mode.   

I noticed that my brain switches to a slightly tense state as soon as I wake up. I'm starting to think that the brain is in an overactive state. The sleeping will help because it calms down the brain.

[demografx]

b_jim was discussing derealization here in 2007!