SleeplessPolarBear
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
I am female aged 71 and over the last 10 years since retiring my health has become more and more complex.
I'll try to be as concise as possible.
Since my 30s I've suffered from severe restless legs syndrome 24/7 and this in turn led to really bad insomnia. I would be going to work having not slept at all and sleeping pills were of no benefit. I asked GP for a sleep test but it was considered not necessary and so 3 months ago I paid privately for one and was diagnosed with moderate chronic sleep apnea. I am now on the NHS waiting !ist for treatment cpap - it is a 3 year wait.
During the last 10 years I have been also diagnosed and am being successfully treated for gastric reflux, high blood pressure (only just), high cholesterol (only just), peripheral neuropathy with swelling, arthritis, and had an awful spell of Temporal Arteritis (Giant Cell Arteritis) which is totally different from arthritis. While on 60mg steroids for this and then reducing for one year I gained 25 lbs.
About one year ago I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Level of 51. Taking metformin 500 x twice daily. Level is now 48.
I am finding it difficult to improve any further and it's all down to me!! I am a mad carb eater with a terrible life style that I could never have envisaged. Getting only about 3 hours fragmented sleep nightly means I am reading and snacking as I try to pass the time. Also my restless legs syndrome means that I am often unable to lie down to rest/sleep/read even though I am exhausted and bouncing off the door frames. Last December (having had only 2 hours sleep) while working the Election I lost 90 minutes.... Totally unaccounted for. I became 'aware' that I was confused and saw that 90 minutes had passed. That was the last time I worked, my confidence has gone. This was when I asked GP to arrange a sleep test and she deemed it unnecessary!!
so... I wander the house during the night (can keep busy during the day and ward off the rls) and snack/read while walking. Yes I have fruit and salad in my diet, but then eat carbs as well. It is now after 7am and I will now go to bed with fingers crossed for sleep. I am weary, no energy, and the thought of exercise is overwhelmingly negative.
I apologise for this lengthy ramble. Just didn't want to leave out anything relevant.
I don't even know what I am asking here and thank everyone who made it to the end of this epistle
I'll try to be as concise as possible.
Since my 30s I've suffered from severe restless legs syndrome 24/7 and this in turn led to really bad insomnia. I would be going to work having not slept at all and sleeping pills were of no benefit. I asked GP for a sleep test but it was considered not necessary and so 3 months ago I paid privately for one and was diagnosed with moderate chronic sleep apnea. I am now on the NHS waiting !ist for treatment cpap - it is a 3 year wait.
During the last 10 years I have been also diagnosed and am being successfully treated for gastric reflux, high blood pressure (only just), high cholesterol (only just), peripheral neuropathy with swelling, arthritis, and had an awful spell of Temporal Arteritis (Giant Cell Arteritis) which is totally different from arthritis. While on 60mg steroids for this and then reducing for one year I gained 25 lbs.
About one year ago I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Level of 51. Taking metformin 500 x twice daily. Level is now 48.
I am finding it difficult to improve any further and it's all down to me!! I am a mad carb eater with a terrible life style that I could never have envisaged. Getting only about 3 hours fragmented sleep nightly means I am reading and snacking as I try to pass the time. Also my restless legs syndrome means that I am often unable to lie down to rest/sleep/read even though I am exhausted and bouncing off the door frames. Last December (having had only 2 hours sleep) while working the Election I lost 90 minutes.... Totally unaccounted for. I became 'aware' that I was confused and saw that 90 minutes had passed. That was the last time I worked, my confidence has gone. This was when I asked GP to arrange a sleep test and she deemed it unnecessary!!
so... I wander the house during the night (can keep busy during the day and ward off the rls) and snack/read while walking. Yes I have fruit and salad in my diet, but then eat carbs as well. It is now after 7am and I will now go to bed with fingers crossed for sleep. I am weary, no energy, and the thought of exercise is overwhelmingly negative.
I apologise for this lengthy ramble. Just didn't want to leave out anything relevant.
I don't even know what I am asking here and thank everyone who made it to the end of this epistle
