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Insomnia after Sleeve?

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WalkOnWaking    139

WalkOnWaking
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It may be unrelated, but anyone else have insomnia after surgery?

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jane13    2,256

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@@WalkOnWaking - no, but I have fought insomnia off/on since my forties. It has gotten worse and at times I don't mind. Maybe you can take some melatonin and see if you can kick your "sleep" clock back into rhythm. Call you doctors office and see if they recommend anything.

If you are back to having caffeine I would back off on it as well. It doesn't affect me for sleeping like some.

good luck

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Thucydides    250

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I started dealing with it right at the 2 week post-op mark, never having had insomnia before. I wondered if my Vitamins might have had something to do with it, so I change when I took them to first thing in the morning and around mid-day. Not taking Vitamins later in the evening seems to have resolved it for me.

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Amy Wolfe    49

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Only problem i have is waking up very early and unable to go back to sleep because i can't really sleep on my back. Im only 9 days post.

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WalkOnWaking    139

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@@WalkOnWaking - no, but I have fought insomnia off/on since my forties. It has gotten worse and at times I don't mind. Maybe you can take some melatonin and see if you can kick your "sleep" clock back into rhythm. Call you doctors office and see if they recommend anything.

If you are back to having caffeine I would back off on it as well. It doesn't affect me for sleeping like some.

good luck

I can't take melatonin. I tried to a few years back (was working a lot of late nights so kinda felt 'jet lagged'). It gave me horrible vivid disturbing dreams. Found out later my sister and mother have the same reaction, so perhaps it runs in the family.

I don't drink a lot of caffeine, but have started back up again. Maybe 1 or 2 cups of hot tea in the morning per week. I get addicted very easily to caffeine so am careful not to overdo it.

But perhaps that is what is causing it. I'll switch back to herbal tea and see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestions!

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WalkOnWaking    139

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Only problem i have is waking up very early and unable to go back to sleep because i can't really sleep on my back. Im only 9 days post.

I hope you can resume your normal sleeping position soon. I am a side sleeper and was able to sleep like that while still at the hospital. Hurt getting into and out of it, but once I was settled in, no issues.

I even asked my surgeon when it would be ok to sleep on my side again. His response 'whenever you feel comfortable enough to do so.' I told him I was worried about messing up stitches internally or whatever. He said, 'Have more confidence in my sewing skills!' hahahahaha

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destiny_77    43

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Me!!! I had my surgery on the 28th and have yet to get a full night's sleep! Tonight has been the worst of them all (hence the reason I searched this topic out to see if I'm alone). I usually go to bed at 9 and get up at 6. Well, I got up at 3 yesterday morning and I'm nowhere near sleepy to go to bed tonight and its almost 3 hours past my normal bedtime. I hope this is temporary because when I go back to work I have for to have my sleep in order to function!! Good luck to the rest of you!!

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BestDayEver    418

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I struggled with this too. I had the doctor check my thyroid med because I thought that was the cause and it came back okay. It eventually got better around month 6.

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Catmom4    149

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I have the same problem! Doesn't matter if I go to bed at 9 or midnight, I'm wide awake at 3 am... Sucks. It's hard to function when I have to go to work for 12 hours when I've been awake so early. I've tried melatonin with no help. Benadryl works but then I feel hungover for hours after I get up. I can't take it if I have to go to work.

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WalkOnWaking    139

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Mine seems to be doing better but still not normal.

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Cape Crooner    589

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Me too. I've started taking 2 Tylenol PMs and I'm back to normal.

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jalleyne1972    10

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Wow...same here. I'm hoping it's due to not working and hoping things will return to normal when I go back to work next week

I'm 12 days P.O.

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HealthyRN    56

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Low carb diets will mess with a good night sleep, especially in the beginning

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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