Please can somone give me some advice. For about 18 months I have suffered extreme night time sweating with insomnia that typically comes on around 2-4am at night. At one point i thought I would have to leave work since I was so tired because the night time was proving so traumatic for me. Typically I would have a healthy tea around 8pm and then usually top this off later and spoil it with biscuits and or cake or anything sweet really. I am very slim do a lot of exercise, but get bad sweet cravings and would typically follow this eating pattern every night picking on sugary food right up til bed. I would then awake around 4am when the room was freezing cold due it being Winter, and I would be burning up and be soaked with sweat. Despite the extremely low temperature of the room I would remain too hot and unable to sleep until about 5-6am. At about 6am my body temp returns to normal and I feel cold againa as I should and put the duvet back on and can then finally sleep. I went to the Doctor who asked if I was worried or anxious. (At that point i wanted to throw something at him). So I spent 6 more months in misery. My health got worse and I experinced extreme stomach pains too in the evenings that knocked me for 6..the doc put it down to a second stomach ulcer, but I'm still a little skeptical about the diagnosis as I was in a really bad way in the nights....
I then got some some protein shakes for the gym and was over the moon when I discovered a protein shake before bed could help to stop the attacks... I did some reading and have considered reactive hypoglycemia, bought a tester and was shocked to find results as low as 1.8 in the middle of the night! I pee silly amounts of time in the night, (not unusual to be 10 times in 1 evening, but small amounts) and willl sometimes go one after the other and have no infections or anything like that.... but then again I always have a drink of tea on the go...
I know that sugar is the culprit here. As soon as I stop the sugar the problems stopped. However, i have started slipping and having the odd biscuit here and there and my symptoms have flared up again plus some other things. So I thought I would try ask another GP when I moved and I went to see him today and he said " Are you stressed at work" Grrrrr . Why won't they understand, I'm talking extreme heat which causes the insomnia not stress :x Anyway, he then said he would do a blood test. My question are: Does it sound like reactive hypo and if so, would a fasting blood test fail to pick it up? (this is my concern )since things seem okay by the time I wake up...My own home blood sugar results are showing very low during the night, but then are fine at breakfast ... Do I need to do an oral glucose test or something of that nature. Or could it be diabetes? I have just recently, contrary to the above, been experiencing repeated UTI bouts. I am male and 36, physically fit and aside from the sugar cravings, really look after myself.
Many Many thanks for any advice you can offer...I feel like I'm getting no where at the moment!
Richard
I then got some some protein shakes for the gym and was over the moon when I discovered a protein shake before bed could help to stop the attacks... I did some reading and have considered reactive hypoglycemia, bought a tester and was shocked to find results as low as 1.8 in the middle of the night! I pee silly amounts of time in the night, (not unusual to be 10 times in 1 evening, but small amounts) and willl sometimes go one after the other and have no infections or anything like that.... but then again I always have a drink of tea on the go...
I know that sugar is the culprit here. As soon as I stop the sugar the problems stopped. However, i have started slipping and having the odd biscuit here and there and my symptoms have flared up again plus some other things. So I thought I would try ask another GP when I moved and I went to see him today and he said " Are you stressed at work" Grrrrr . Why won't they understand, I'm talking extreme heat which causes the insomnia not stress :x Anyway, he then said he would do a blood test. My question are: Does it sound like reactive hypo and if so, would a fasting blood test fail to pick it up? (this is my concern )since things seem okay by the time I wake up...My own home blood sugar results are showing very low during the night, but then are fine at breakfast ... Do I need to do an oral glucose test or something of that nature. Or could it be diabetes? I have just recently, contrary to the above, been experiencing repeated UTI bouts. I am male and 36, physically fit and aside from the sugar cravings, really look after myself.
Many Many thanks for any advice you can offer...I feel like I'm getting no where at the moment!
Richard
