Yes, yes, first post in quite a while now.
Hell sometimes relents.......the last two weeks I've almost been sleeping "normally" - between 6-8 hours per night, and feel energetic, rested, and enthusiastic during the day (I did have one relape of two 2-hr nights in a row, but otherwise OK).
I'm not quite sure why.
Perhaps a change in diet?? I did start eating lots of yogurt with breakfast in the moring at the beginning of this period of good sleep. Its not the first time the my sleep seemed to respond to adding something to my diet. About 3 years back, I started eating meat after being a vegetarian for 25 years. Upon this diet change, I almost immediately started sleeping normally. This unfortunately wore off after about 4 months, and thus I returned to insomnia hell.
I wonder if this is a similar change. A wild guess at what is going on might have to do with hormones - sometimes meat eating can raise testosterone, so I oftern wonder whether I was low in testosterone, and whether low testosterone that was causing my insomnia. My most recent testosterone test came back middel of the range, maybe a bit on the low side, but not suggestive of a major problem.
Yogurt is full of pro-biotics, and recently there was a reserch article out about how mice fed yogut were more sexually virie - again, maybe a testosterone link. All I know is that I'll be continuing to eat lots of yogurt in hopes that my sleep stays normal.
I am a happy camper......for now.
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