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Type 2 Lack of sleep

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Gazzheronsbysmith

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Insulin
Hi, I’m after some help please. I’m 55 Type2 for around 13 years now. I was made unemployed at the end of May 2019. Before then sleep was not a problem, since then bar a couple of weeks on sleeping tablets I can’t get to sleep. I stay awake all night till around 6am before I fall asleep, then wake up around lunchtime. Does anyone know of any natural remedies I can use to get to sleep. I’m hard of hearing as well and wear hearing aids, so sleep apps are not useful as I take my hearing aids out at bed time, which is normally around 9pm to 11pm. So I’m not staying up all night, I do go to bed, I just can’t sleep
 
Lavender oil (drops on pillow) is supposed to help.
 
Hello,
Reading a book?
Doing some exercise before bed time?
Apparently camomile tea is suppose to help.
 
I was an insomniac all my life... I mean, my parents would go to bed and check on me, and I'd still be wide awake in my crib. (I remember looking through the spokes). It wasn't until I started on CBD oil that I broke the cycle. Try the Jacob Hooy one from Holland & Barrett. It's quite disgusting, but I think they have capsules now too. I take some before I go to bed, sleep until I have to go to the bathroom, (har har) and when I come back I don't lay awake four hours until the alarm anymore, but fall right back to sleep... Honestly, it's saved my sanity. What's left of it, anyway.
 
Take a temporary online nightshift job. Like teaching English to Asians in another time zone. You might as well make the most of being awake.
 
Sounds to me that you have just got out of a normal rhythm of sleeping. It's not surprising you can't get to sleep at 9pm if you slept until lunchtime. Don't go to bed until midnight and get up as soon as you wake up in the morning, after a few days you will be back to sleeping at night and being awake during the day. Getting plenty of exercise during the day, walking, gardening whatever will also help.
 

Sorry to hear of your sleep problems.
Things you can do:

Go to bed at a set time every night.
Before you go to bed, write down things in a book or on some paper 20 minutes before bed, that's the positives and the negatives, also things to do, this can help your brain unwind.

Have a very quite bedroom and very dark, a blanket over the window helps block out street lights and early morning light.

No TV, no mobile phone, no reading in the bedroom,

Think of a happy pleasant time you have had or a place. by the seaside, relaxing in a park, feeling he sun on your face etc

Think of just one thing, a number and repeat it many times in your head, one, one one, or ten, ten ten and so on.

Do not lay awake, if you are still restless and cannot sleep, get up and go downstairs, possibly the lounge and read a book, or watch tv, do a puzzle, but nothing too taxing on the brain or energetic.

Don't have any cafeine after 5pm, so a decaffeinated tea or coffee would be okay.

Getting out and about during the day, as exercise is beneficial for the body and the mind.

I hope you find something to help, so don't give up and try to keep going.
Good luck
 
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