Sleeplessness is a big problem in our city-dwelling population. Electrotherapy has been clinically shown to significantly relieve the symptoms of insomnia by helping people fall asleep faster, fall asleep again when waking in the middle of the night, sleeping longer and sleeping deeper. The longer you have been struggling with insomnia, though, the LESS likely electrotherapy is to help you. Also, if you are using tranquilizers / benzodiazepines on a regular basis, you will find that CES actually worsens your insomnia. Even so, many people have successfully used the Elexoma to wean themselves off sleeping pills and are sleeping quite well now. But it is not a magic wand.
CES once daily (preferably mornings) is the baseline. 200 – 300 uAmp.
In addition: At night, you might want to try programme 6, both leads, red sticky pads on the forehead (either side of the midline, not touching each other) and the corresponding black electrodes on the back of the neck, either side of the midline, not touching each other. You can go up to 1,000 uAmp. Don’t be scared if you see flickers, this is normal and safe. Do this 15 minutes before you want to go sleep, for 15 minutes.
Insomnia takes a while to respond to treatment, but the effects are cumulative.
If you wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble falling asleep again, use programme 1, earclips, 200 uAmp to fall asleep again (or, if the sticky pads from programme 6 are still on the machine, take one set of stickies and stick them on the bare patch of skin behind each ear – red and black not relevant).
Effects of cranial electrical stimulation on sleep disturbances
CES and sleep disturbances, depressive symptoms