Sleep Question?????

I sure hope it changes for you too post op!!  Lack of sleep is horrid!!  I will look forward to your journey!

Sleep, what's that!   I use to be a very sound sleeper but I think most of that was to all the extra weight I was carrying around (I was tired all the time) but now I never sleep.   I did try the sleeping pills and it would work for a while but I just stopped taking them.  I know that I drink WAY to much coffee but honestly I don't think that is what is keeping me awake my body is has to be use to the caffeine by now. I did have a hysterectomy last Nov but I never that that not sleeping was a result of that. (I guess that might be something to think about, when I'm not sleeping)  I should clarify that I do sleep when I go to bed I CRASH and I sleep great for 2-3 hours and then I start to toss and turn.   I know it's not the bed (we bought a sleep number 4 years ago and I love it) but my back doesn't hurt and I don't really toss and turn I just lay there awake making sure I don't miss the alarm going off.   I think honestly that's my problem I know that I have to get up no later then 4:15 so I make myself wake up at 3:00.  I could now switch my hours at work but since I don't sleep I might as well go to work when no one else is there and I can get things done and then I get to leave early and have time to myself before I have to get the kids from school (it's great!).   Anyways I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that doesn’t sleep. So next time anyone can't sleep log on the computer and we can chat.   That's something else, I like to get up early on the weekends so that I can have a couple cups of coffee and read the paper before the husband and kids get up. 

I hear ya about the "me" quiet time!!~ rare for me but oooo so nice!!!  I think that Hysterectomy has alot to do with it..... but it is interesting to see that there are alot of WLS peeps with sleeping issues

Prior to my hysterectomy, I could fall asleep and stay asleep all night, before my head hit the pillow (without meds).  Now mind you I still smoked and drank caffeine ALL DAY LONG (would take the last gulp of diet pepsi before I went to bed).  They left my ovaries but removed everything else. 

About a year after the hysterectomy, my ovaries stopped working full time and the sleepless nights started too.  Hot flashes, cold, etc.  Once I got the hormones in check, I slept like a baby again.  Still smoking and drinking the diet pepsi and packing on the pounds, dieting, packing on the pounds.  But I was sleeping.

Four years ago, I quit smoking and gained more weight and moved from our home of 18 years.  No clue what broke the camels back but the sleep problems began and have not gotten better at all.  I have RLS and take a pill for that so that doesn't keep me up (or my husband) and in fact one of the side affects is sleepiness. 

It also seems that the healthier I got, the worse the sleeplessness was.  I could take tylenol pm but now have to take a sleeping pill or there is no hope.  And I only sleep about 5 hours and then I'm wide awake again (no sure if that is from extra energy or the sleep aid passing through blood system soon than non-WLS patients).

With WLS I don't drink pop, only have coffee at home before I go to work at 7 a.m. and then drink enough water to make up for it, plus my other fluids, don't have many carbs, eat plenty of protein, and feel tired but cannot get to sleep without the stupid sleeping pill.  And it is ALL NIGHT LONG I don't sleep without it. 

Interesting reading on this post......

Hysterectomy+WLS=Sleepless nights???? 

That is why I posted this.  Seen it on another board and was wondering the connections......things that make ya go "hmmm"!!

Add me to the list. I have slept poorly since the hysterectomy but now I can't sleep the whole night in a bed. I get up and head for the couch and seem to sleep better there??? Hmmmm