Tiredness and sleep problems

I also have that sleep issue and tiredness during the daytime especially if it's a particularly hot day, yesterday was 36'c in my country and a real scorcher. What I have been doing over the past few weeks is to take a DPH capsule about half an hour before going to bed and that has worked for me. I still get up once or twice to visit the toilet but will resume sleep afterwards. Before taking the DPH capsules I would go to bed and my mind was constantly in thought or humming a song in my head so I just could not actually fall asleep. This went on for weeks at a time until out of sheer desperation I took a friends advice and reached for the DPH capsule. I have been getting 7-8 hours of sleep every night now.

When I had undiagnosed thyroid failure I slept badly and was tired all day, until at last I got a test done and my thyroid stimulating hormone level was about 4000 times higher than normal.

Jenny15 said:

I agree with you about TV and reading, based on all the research that's been done on it, but I'm one of the lucky people who is helped by TV or reading in bed. For some reason I usually don't make it through more than a couple of pages of a book before I'm sleepy. I don't have a TV in my room these days but if I did, anything except scary movies would also do the trick.

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That's interesting, as I too don't find screens perturb my sleep at all. In fact I find sitting in front of my desktop calming, whereas a pre-bedtime telephone conversation with a friend, however anodyne, over-stimulates me.

What are your exercise levels like ? I'm at it every day and generally sleep fine. I went on epic cycle ride recently ~ 100 km in strong winds and was so tired slept through my morning alarms :-( I had really bad sleep problems when first diagnosed.

Fluctuating BS during the night can disturb my sleep and when this happens it's a struggle to get back to sleep.

Magnesium supplements can help , my stomach can't tolerate the tablets so I've moved on to spray and I'm virtually unconscious