Insomnia anyone?
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Hello all,
Apologies for starting a separate thread on this. I am really suffering from very annoying insomnia due to Covid (suspected) and was wondering if anyone is keen to share their experience? It seems a lot of us are having problems sleeping.
Week 2-3: Terrible. Some nights of complete no sleep.
Week 4-12: Fragmented 5-7 hours. Waking up every hour or two. There were only a handful of nights that I could get 3-4 hours in a row. Sometimes I wake up and find myself over-breathing.
Week 13-14: Gone backwards again. 3-4 hours on average per night.
The problem is staying asleep, rather than falling asleep. I'm using melotanin, also valeriaan and CBD. None seems to really keep me asleep.
How has your experience been? Anything that helped?
The theory is that this is to do with your vagus nerve. In the process of fighting off the virus it is a bit messed up and may take a long time to heal and reset itself.
Many thanks
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rlwings mkqq
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Hello mkqq ... Yes, sleep has definitely been as you describe. It took at least 8 weeks (maybe 10 or 12) to regain reasonable sleeping again... As you say, it was staying asleep that posed the biggest challenge. On top of that I had trouble falling asleep and had weird dreams. Then I'd wake up early in the morning unable to go back to sleep which was easily achieved in the past. Didn't really feel tired. just out-of-it in a brain fog kinda way. Sleep, anxiety, nervy symptoms seem to be at the forefront of a lot of these long-lasting Covid cases. Others have lung issues to go along with it. Luckily I never experienced breathing problems, shoulder\chest pain and phlegm, etc. I never had exhaustion either... Just nervy neurological, balance, tingling, anxiety, sleep, swallowing, ringing in ears problems... Week 13 now and symptom relapses have decreased considerably in frequency duration and intensity... I really feel that this thing is actually going away. Something I wouldn't let myself think back during the more intense relapsy period.