insommnia!!

[meggie67]

forgot to add if your levels are to high does it effect your sleep seem to sleep max 5 hours night and have been up since 3 am this morning

[shaws Administrator]

I was only on 75mcg and I had insomnia every night till I stopped levothyroxine and switched to natural dessicated thyroid. I sleep great now, whereas before Iwent to sleep at midnight and wakened about 20 mins later and slept on and off all night.

[Clarebear]

My insomnia was bad on levo and is a bit better on NDT. i was still awake at 4am this morning and didn't go back to sleep though I am a bit under-medicated at the moment though. I tend to find that both over and under medication lead to insomnia for me.

[meggie67]

thanks guys

[Jackie]

Hi if my levels are too low I sleep for a few mins heavily and then awake 4 hours. If too high cannot sleep. It is different but confusing when put like that. Also I never say to docs as not sleeping with hypo is not recognised and they then say it is because you are hypo.

Jackie

[Jackie in reply to Jackie]

Sorry should read hyper at the end.

Jackie

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Apparently it can be a hyper as well as a hypo symptom - like palpitations.

I've always been an owl, not a lark, and was going later and later to bed thinking that then I should be REALLY tired and sleep through. Not so. For what it's worth, I've found that (for the first time in my life) going to bed before midnight helps. It doesn't prevent 1 night in every 3 or 4 being almost completely sleepless (when I seem to bounce off the top level of sleep like a skipping stone all night), but it helps.

[Karlos]

I can't sleep at the minute and today I can't function on a year level. Was on 125mcg of levo but I've just reduced it as I thought it was keeping me awake, GPs are useless.

Supposed to be back at work on weds, God I hope 2013 is better.