A short first-person account describing difficulties sleeping after a brain injury/concussion and the author's experience using hydroxyzine (a sedating antihistamine) and magnesium to help regulate the nervous system and restore sleep. The clip emphasizes sleep's importance for brain healing and links sleep regulation with hormonal and nervous-system recovery.
We're going to get a sleeping pill and play. And I was like, what? No, I don't want that. And she but I was reminded, like, how important sleep is for healing, especially for the brain, even with a concussion, you know, low stimulation, rest. So I did I had to take a sleeping pill for almost I took hydroxyzine. So it's actually like calming and can just help me because I couldn't turn my brain off. And so, yeah, that was really hard. Thankfully, I sleep now. Great. I just pop a couple magnesium, you know, unwind. But I was doing all the things before and nothing was working. So I'm really glad I waited and got my nervous system more regulated.
Yeah, this is a huge point for everybody listening. I think people get confused about why I discuss hormones and sleep so much.
