Insomnia

Another sleepless night. This is getting ridiculous! I am three months post -op as of tomorrow and have been having increasing issues with sleep over the last month. At first, I was tired all the time and slept a lot. Now, I still feel tired but cannot sleep for more than 2-3 hrs at a time. Anyone else experience this after surgery?

I had that happen after surgery. But it went away on its own after awhile.

If this helps you at all I've seen some people post over on the VSG forum that they had insomnia for a while after surgery and it resolved. I have this same issue--I sleep crazy hours. Sometimes I cannot sleep at all at night and sleep during the day or I'll sleep 2-3 hours at night and then stay up all the rest of the night and sleep a few hours during the morning or afternoon. But this is something unrelated to my surgery. I've been like this since i was 26--and now I'm 36. The doctors told me it was called delayed sleep phase syndrome. Hopefully all you have is just some hormone changes that will resolve and you will be back to sleeping all night soon.

I had early-waking insomnia preop and it was pretty bad postop. The dr who did my sleep study prescribed me Ambien, which worked for a while - 6 mo preop and 1 yr postop. But I eventually d/c'd it as the side effects were perturbing: doing things without remembering them the next morning. I'll just trade waking up early & getting more things done in the am for the weird stuff I was doing on Ambien (putting on self-tanner, doing free weights, folding laundry, and - gasp - eating junk food!).

Oh my go****hat's crazy! Were you orange?! lol I think I would rather get up extra early too!

Yep, and had dripped self-tanner on the carpet too.... The evening routine became me telling my husband that I took Ambien and under no uncertain terms was he allow me to get out of bed. That's just no way to live, for me.

I'm 11 months post op & still having these issues. I haven't had a full nights sleep in I couldn't tell you how long. I have to take some sort of sleep aid every night & I still only sleep about 2-3 hrs at a time. I've talked to my PCP about it & he hasn't prescribed nothing as of yet. I hope your sleep issues resolve soon. Good luck!

Sounds very familiar. I am about 10 months post-op and still have problems sleeping through the night. I was given a rx of ambien, but hate the side effects it gives me. Fortunately it does not make me sleep eat or other things, it just makes me lag alot the next morning. Over the counter stuff works better for me when I take it. Best advice is to get a good workout during the day and stay busy. This has helped me get another couple hours of sleep as I am tuckered out from the workout. Hang in there and keep moving forward.

I'm 18 months out and have been dealing with insomnia more times than not for a few months now. If I get to bed too early I will wake up in the middle of the night and ride it out on the couch until my usual wake time. A couple of days of that and I have to crash hard for 12 hours or so to catch up. I have a script to help me get to REM sleep, and sometimes it works , and sometimes it doesn't.