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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peter5145" data-source="post: 1414160" data-attributes="member: 383229">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.</blockquote>

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