Dont start drugs now to help sleep... Bad bad news. Especially narcotics and similar drugs. If you must start now, use melatonin and/or 5-HTP. Melatonin makes you sleep... Its naturally occurring. I will spare you the neurochemistry lesson, its hard enough trying to explain Cisco related stuff here at the best of times. Short version - don't take stillnox or any other "sleeping tablets"
Stay off the grog for the next two weeks, maybe a glass of wine with dinner and thats it. Drink shitloads of water, but not enough that you turn into a piss factory and need to get up every 5 minutes during the lab. Any more alcohol than one a day is too much (yes, I drink a hell of a lot more than this). You would be surprised how you feel after three days with no booze. Try it and see. Also, a decent nights sleep before the lab is equivalent to about 9 months of full time study. Sleep well - you get a bonus 9 months worth, sleep poorly and you may as well have not bothered for the past year. Cheers, Matt CCIE #22386 CCSI #31207 On 2 February 2010 08:09, <[email protected]> wrote: > Your method for sleep and study should remain constant. If you take ambien > and do practice labs and you are fine then that's cool. if you are trying > something new you should do it before the big day and give plenty of time for > sufficient evaluation- how are you during practice labs, do you feel ok or a > bit off etc. > > 10 days cutting it close, not sure you want to experiment this close to d > day. When I need to get to sleep I take a HOT shower. Your body temp changes > and your body changes to fight it and makes you drowsy. Ever gone in a hot > tub for 15 mins got out and felt sleepy? That's what I'm talking about. Take > a hot bath and soak and pre brush your teeth so you go from tub dry off to > bed. > > When I'm nervous that's how I roll. > > Nick > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Edgeworth <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:39:04 > To: Steve Shaw<[email protected]>; Nadeem Rafi<[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Secrets to a good night sleep > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
