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<blockquote data-quote="Freema" data-source="post: 1358891" data-attributes="member: 329519"><p>well I have the same problem many days of the week, it doesn´t seem to help me to eat anything just before going to bed either, there must be something in all those carbs we used to eat that helped sleep...</p><p></p><p>I do have a little medicine from before becomming diabetic that made me sleep like a baby which I take once in a while when being desperate, but then on the other hand this is maybe what made me diabetic in the first place, the last 2 nights I have slept fantastic without any help of anything, but up at least twice every night to go to the toilet, this problem I didn´t have either before being put on metformin... maybe metformin do affect more aspects of the body in some people, I have found other cases on the web of people telling of frequent toilet visit in the nights.. but I haven´t look for cases of people with insomnia due to metformin yet...</p><p></p><p>some also tell that on low carb you need less sleep, but when one feels totally exchauted with hardly any sleep that doesn´t seem to be a symptom of not needing the sleep..</p><p></p><p>all I can say is that I feel compasion with you and know how anoying it is to not being able to sleep night after night, I tried to take tryptophan 250-500mg for some nights, didn´t help much but did make me very very sleepy, but couldn´t sleep the Whole night anyways, but then I read of the scary illness a lot of people got from tryptophan some 25 years ago, and I don´t dare experiment with it any more..also have tried melatoni with not that good results either, baldrian make me feel poisoned so that is not an option, but many people do use baldrian tea just before sleep and tell that it helps them much and camomille tea in the evenings..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Freema, post: 1358891, member: 329519"] well I have the same problem many days of the week, it doesn´t seem to help me to eat anything just before going to bed either, there must be something in all those carbs we used to eat that helped sleep... I do have a little medicine from before becomming diabetic that made me sleep like a baby which I take once in a while when being desperate, but then on the other hand this is maybe what made me diabetic in the first place, the last 2 nights I have slept fantastic without any help of anything, but up at least twice every night to go to the toilet, this problem I didn´t have either before being put on metformin... maybe metformin do affect more aspects of the body in some people, I have found other cases on the web of people telling of frequent toilet visit in the nights.. but I haven´t look for cases of people with insomnia due to metformin yet... some also tell that on low carb you need less sleep, but when one feels totally exchauted with hardly any sleep that doesn´t seem to be a symptom of not needing the sleep.. all I can say is that I feel compasion with you and know how anoying it is to not being able to sleep night after night, I tried to take tryptophan 250-500mg for some nights, didn´t help much but did make me very very sleepy, but couldn´t sleep the Whole night anyways, but then I read of the scary illness a lot of people got from tryptophan some 25 years ago, and I don´t dare experiment with it any more..also have tried melatoni with not that good results either, baldrian make me feel poisoned so that is not an option, but many people do use baldrian tea just before sleep and tell that it helps them much and camomille tea in the evenings.. [/QUOTE]
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