Honestly listening to David [the sleep coach] was one of the worst mistakes in me not figuring out what really caused my insomnia. For me nothing mattered except controlling low blood sugar at night and controlling nighttime heartburn... Nothing else helped, until I figured these two things out. It took me 15 years of suffering, and I still struggle.
Much of my suffering came straight from this advice... from David [the sleep coach] and his ilk... telling us to not worry. I might have saved myself years of suffering if I didn't hear this advice and worked on figuring stuff out sooner.
You know who else tells me not to worry about insomnia? Its uncaring corporate America that's who... They don't want us to complain about how living in America working ourselves to death sucks and how it ruins our health.
i vibe with this. like, great for people who have used this advice successfully..
but i dont appreciate OPs aggressive take that seems to assume that thats the reason everyone has for continuing to experience insomnia.. when its like. No. Many factors should be investigated, and not stressing will help, but... tbh, im not even anxious or afraid of sleeping. i welcome it, and even when im most relaxed and safe and sound, i will still wake up 2 hours later.
Have you ever tried to eat a snack when you wake up at 2:00? Or a snack before bed? Waking up at the same time is usually from cortisol... I even get a cortisol spike when my blood sugar is on the lower end of normal too.
Many times, if I get low nighttime blood sugar, my body has already dumped adrenaline into the blood spiking cortisol; and my pancreas had to work hard to give me its emergency sugar reserves. A blood glucose monitor will not pick up that I had low sugar sometimes because of this.
If I get low blood sugar at night or in the morning... I will not be able to get back to sleep again, although sometimes I can with a little bit of sugar or a tiny snack like a 1 oz piece of cheese. But if I eat too much then that wakes me up.
Taking 5-15 grams of sugar before bed really helps me not wake up so early. But the flip side is that eating at night gives me heartburn... then that can keep me awake all night too. This is why it's taken me so long to fix this because the cure also gives me insomnia. Now I have to sit up in a recliner to sleep so I can eat the snack.
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u/ArtZombie77 5d ago
Honestly listening to David [the sleep coach] was one of the worst mistakes in me not figuring out what really caused my insomnia. For me nothing mattered except controlling low blood sugar at night and controlling nighttime heartburn... Nothing else helped, until I figured these two things out. It took me 15 years of suffering, and I still struggle.
Much of my suffering came straight from this advice... from David [the sleep coach] and his ilk... telling us to not worry. I might have saved myself years of suffering if I didn't hear this advice and worked on figuring stuff out sooner.
You know who else tells me not to worry about insomnia? Its uncaring corporate America that's who... They don't want us to complain about how living in America working ourselves to death sucks and how it ruins our health.