Has anyone else found diabetes to be a cause or a contributory factor to insomnia?
I've recently been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes following a blood test which the doctor asked for as I'd been suffering from chronic insomnia for nine months.
One thing that wasn't helping me sleep was having to get up for a pee more in the middle of the night. I suppose this is a symptom of diabetes but I'd just put it down to the natural effects of growing older (I''m 57).
However, I don't think that's the sole cause, as it becomes a kind of vicious circle. If I do sleep well, I don't have to get up so often, but if I'm lying awake in bed then the urge comes more quickly.
The insomnia hasn't really improved - it's not so much a case of not being able to fall asleep in the first place, but being unable to get back to sleep after about 4 am, meaning that I rarely get more than about four hour's sleep a night.
Before I was diagnosed with T2 I could sleep for Britain, I was a guarantee for a Gold Medal. Now I wake periodically to pee and I will have one decent nights sleep followed by 2 or 3 very bad nights. The good night's come when I'm exhausted. Just part of the condition together with old age I guess, I'm 61.