My sister who was sleeved on Aug 30th and now myself who was sleeved on Dec 28th both have trouble sleeping. I am used to being exhausted and sleep a good 8 hours a night, but since surgery, I wake after 5 hours and just can't go back to sleep. If I do get up for awhile and go back to bed I can get in another 2-3 hours. I am back to work now so I don't have the time to do back to bed.

Does this ever change? Does anyone out there have a remedy? I blame it on all the Protein so I've been trying to get my daily requirements in before 2:00, but it didn't work last night. Bingo, 3:00 am and I am up for the day. Help!!!!!!!!!!!

I tried either Lunesta or Ambien (can't remember which) but these are designed to help you GET to sleep not MAKE you sleep. Once you've passed the two hour mark after going to bed they have little effect. I also take meletonin but I too get wild crazy dreams. I've tried Xanax too and it simply makes me feel drunk and I seem more at ease in bed but sleep doesn't come till typically the wee hours.

I swim 1.7 miles 5 days a week, I am typically sleepy once I hit the hay and on the few nights I try I can't read for very long as my eyes feel heavy.

It is also exacerbated by the fact I have to drink so much Water to avoid kidney stones, I have to get up to urninate 1, 2 or 3 times a night. Flow is strong and clear so I don't think it is due to any urilogical issues, just the amount of water I drink.

I get real fidgity and get achy in pressure points in my hips and back even on a memory foam mattress - I've lost so much padding witt he weight loss. I HAD been geting cold and have piled on the blankets, added a heated mattress pad and started wearing PJ's and socks. This makes me MORE uncomfortable in bed as the PJ's and socks make me get balled up in the sheets and blankets.

It's really becoming an issue and affecting my daytime performance.

I need to do something... I've been up over 20 hours!!!!! I don't know what to do!!!! I'm miserable!!!

I had a problem a couple of nights with insomnia. But I found this natural supplement and I swear by it. The doctor said it was fine for me but of course check with your doctor. I like it because there are no side effects.

It's called Lights Out made by ROEX. You can order it online. I take one every night and sleep like a baby. Good luck!

I just started taking 5-HTP which is also supposed to help with mood. I'll report how it works, it may take a few weeks to kick in, most natural suppliments work very slowly.

Has anyone tried Tylenol pm? That seems to be the only thing that helps me. Other than that I'm up and if I do fall asleep I do not feel rested when I wake.

I've been an insomniac since my 20's. I was sleeved on 4/29/15 and have been going great. In the last 2 day I have found that my insomnia has flared with force in the last 2 days. It usually comes on slow and if not dealt with quickly gets bad fast. So with all the stress i'm under this isn't surprising except for sudden severity of it, I am starting several "fixes" that have worked for me over the years hoping to catch it fast. Also the insomnia made me think of the massive change in my chemical make up and that others might be new to this condition. I'm also glad that my thoughts lead me here to find others to confirmation that it is a common problem.

Over the span of my life I have found what helps me and would like to share my progress and see if my methods will work this time, also to see if anyone has any success with other methds or if this just has to run it's course like a virus. So the way I treat my insomnia is to start a routine, not really strict but really structured with 3 to 5 things. This incudes a start time and an order to create a trigger.

Most of us have a normal routine that is our pattern/trigger to tell our system it is time to sleep. To create a more powerful trigger to signal sleep setting up a defined routine with....well that is getting deep and you can do your own research. So I try for the first few times is counting to ten over and over again, counting higher will allow the circling thoughts to creep in. That worked the first night but took too long on the second and now i'm up too early. So next phase is to use Ambien or Restoril for 2 weeks along with a structured routine. I will begin this tonight with Ambien (it is on my ok to take list, check with your doctor to see what is for you). I limit the use to two weeks then try to keep the pattern and stop the med. I'm so hoping this works, there are several good web sites with advise about relaxation methods. One of my triggers is a warm bath but I will add candles for aroma therapy and reading a couple of pages of a book and now I am using the internet to put on a movie as very low audible and turn out the lights. So the fight for sleep begins! I'm always up for a challenge (or at least I wish I was, i'm in a fake ti till ya make it personality trait incorporation).

I hope we all come out the other side soon. I hate this condition, esp the bags under my eyes!

Couldn’t sleep the last 2 nights but I also have Covid at the moment. Since I’m vaccinated it was only like a cold but it’s clearing up now, but I wasn’t sure if the insomnia is due to VSG or Covid or something else. I am 4 weeks post op tomorrow and I am hoping this is a sign of a Jumpstart to my metabolism since I’ve stalled after the 1st week loss of 13.5 lbs. Perhaps it’s a sign I need to be more active during the day. I also just started eating solid foods last Friday so that could be it. Covid insomnia is also a “thing” so only time will tell. I’m tired tho. ?

Completely understand I still have issues falling and staying asleep after surgery

On 02/17/2012 at 03:38, Riss1908 said:

Has anyone tried Tylenol pm? That seems to be the only thing that helps me. Other than that I'm up and if I do fall asleep I do not feel rested when I wake.

Be careful with long term use of anything containing the sleep ingredient in Tylenol PM (diphenhydramine)…it can mess with your neurotransmitters and makes some people depressed. There’s also some evidence it raises your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s.

This just hit me the past two days - sleeved 12/22/2021. I woke up 2 days ago at 3 AM and that was it I was done sleeping. I had slept 5 hours and I was energized. Then I couldn’t fall asleep last night until 3 AM which meant I was up 24 hours. My husband even asked if I drank coffee because that’s how much energy I had - for 24 hours straight! Nope just Water. So I woke up at 8 AM that put me at 5 hours sleep again. I was so full of energy I did 4 loads of laundry, dishes, mopped the floors, and I was remodeling and loaning my Master suite - bedroom, laundry room and bathroom, before surgery - I actually finished painting my bedroom today and walked over 3 miles! So here it is 10:30 PM im wide awake while everyone else sleeps. This is so weird I’ve always needed 10-12 hours of solid sleep since the day I was born not the past two nights! Crazy

Okay the insomnia is so bad, I take 6 pills to go to sleep including narcotics all prescribed by my dr. and still cannot sleep, I wake up so much at night and have to take 6 more pills in the middle of the night to get back to sleep. The medicine I take could knock out a horse, but not me. I take melatonin also. I slept great before the surgery with my meds. And I only took 4 meds at that time on a keto diet. I take a total of 12 meds at night just to sleep. And I am still waking up every hour. Does anyone have advice or good news that this is only temporary. I was sleeved 29 days ago.

I hear that exercise helps with sleep!