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Inability to Sleep

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Hi there

Do any of you T2s have a similar experience...

Regardless of what time I go to bed, I sleep for maybe 2 hours, wake up, wide awake, toss and turn for about 4 hours then eventually fall back asleep getting another 2 hours. When I do wake up the second time I am exhausted and out of sorts.

After my LCHF I did feel very ill with flu like symptoms and when I went to the doctor, they took bloods, which showed Vit D deficiency. I will admit to having a carby weekend,

But this sleeping problem has been going on for months now, I try herbal sleep aids, I try warm milk with nutmeg, I have soothing plink-plonky music. But regardless, I wake up.

Has anyone any tips or ideas for getting a full nights sleep ?
 
Yep, sadly I suffer too. Oh for an unbroken nights sleep :) I'm not sure if it to do with T2 or not. One of my latest goals (I'm on a goal setting diabetes course!) is to try sleep better - no idea how to achieve this so hoping for tips too.

I generally have a couple/few hours sleep, then awake - then feel I toss/turn - and I always wake up early. My OH can sleep for hours :(

On the positive side now my BG is under control I'm not sweating overnight like I used to - that was really unpleasant.
 
Have a google for Low carb and insomnia - it is a fairly well known phenomenon on the Paleo and LC websites, and it comes up here fairly regularly.

Various ideas mentioned - including the idea that carbs are soporific, and a small dose in the evening will help sleep. Also that when LC we actually need less sleep... but nothing works for everyone. :) and we Ds have to factor in our Dawn Phenomenon, don't we?

My personal experience was that when I had a period of stress at work, it affected my sleep far more than it used to, preveryLC. But then when the stress passed, so did the insomnia...

Anyway, you might find some of the comments interesting - especially since they are Low Carbing for diff reasons than diabetes. lol.
 
Hey @PenfoldAPD thanks for the reply - I get you with the sweating over night ! that happens less and less for me now - my FBG this morning was 9.2 and I think that's just my body trying to get energy into my system to get me up and functioning. But I did have a Carby weekend.
 
I couldn't sleep last night, but it might have had something to do with my neighbours car catching fire at 2:30 AM
 
5-6 hours is a long night's sleep for me - too much to do! I have a switch inside my head - if I go horizontal, I can be sparko in under a minute - don't care where I am - I'm off, BUT, I actually struggle to do that in bed. Some nights I just can not get off to sleep. Carbs ARE soporific, but if you are reading this, a large slice of cake is not the answer! Her'e something which works for me and is based on my student job when I worked at the London Planetarium. I would sell programmes at the beginning of each show then find a seat at the back, look up and gone - absolutely out. The projectionist would wake me up to repeat the programme sales for the next shift. I literally slept on the job - nobody minded because my sales figures where absolutely off the chart! I took advantage of this and developed something that helps me fall asleep when I am otherwise wide awake: I lie there in the dark and imagine stars swirling round very very slowly. They come over one side of me, drift by and disappear out of view over the other side. At times it feels like I am about to roll off the bed.This rarely takes longer than a couple of minutes. (I am a day person. Watching night skies makes me fall asleep. I can not drive long distances at night on motorways - long bends in the roads make a clear night sky look like the ceiling of the Planetarium.)
 
Know that feeling well. I am constantly tired and always asleep 9 and 10. I then wake up 4/5 times a week during the night and can be awake for hours, then doze off for a little while then my alarm wakes e for work. It's awful. I try stay awake longer but that doesn't help and end up still being exhausted still the next day. I take levythorixine for hypothyroidism so feel tired and exhausted because of this so the doesn't help my energy levels either.
 
my head used to sweat horribly when I 1st started insulin and I never sweat. As BS stabilized it stopped but it took awile. I'm certain it was fluctuating. I started a thread about night time snacks and sleeping. I have since started eating about a tsp of peanut butter on a small piece of celery and so far working well. I have the problem if getting to sleep. Occasionally prior to this I would wake up dreaming about food, get up have a small handful of nuts and went right back to sleep. People with the libra thingy talk about how much they fluctuate during the night so I think the peanut butter would stabilize. If it's small enough the protein and carbs in addition to fat are the right macros to stop lows but not enough to cause spikes. Could also help DP for those who have it. To me sleep is more important than a tsp of PB. besides it tastes SO good I look forward to it now haha
 
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