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I can sometimes drop off to sleep quickly - I know I need to sleep when I drop my iPad or book on my face!
I always need the loo after about 3 hours though and I can never sleep past 7:30 these days. I used to be able to just sleep til noon on weekends before I was diagnosed. It's like my body knows I need to eat now so I can have my metformin and I deffo have vivid dreams and also feel like I sometimes 'direct' the dreams!
 
I usually go to sleep between 10:45-11 and tend to sleep through, maybe needing the loo during the night on a couple of nights a week. I usually wake around 7. My girls are both good sleepers now so that makes a big difference. My OH doesn't sleep much - goes to bed at same time as me and gets up to go to the gym before 5am! 😱
 
I know this is an old thread but my sleep pattern is awful. Sometimes, like tonight for example, I get a whole three hours and that’s broken into two.
I don’t catnap our find myself falling asleep on the sofa so perhaps it’s just how I’m meant to sleep.
 
I have one of my numerous 'lists' of how to get a good nights sleep -I haven't read this thread right through, so some of them have probably already been mentioned, but for what it's worth here are some things that might help sometimes.

* Make the room completely dark - No LEDs from clocks etc
* If you watch TV etc before bed, make sure it is low adrenaline stuff - no scary stuff (or maybe even the News!)
* Avoid Caffeine and alcohol before bedtime
* Eat largest meal earlier, and well before bedtime
* Try a drink of root-ginger infused in water
* Try to be outside more in the day. Apparently natural light and fresh air keep 'circadian' system in sync (whatever that is!)
* It can be that low vitamin B causes lack of sleep
* Triptofan (?) is said to help sleep, and this is found in lettuce, cottage cheese, turkey and chicken. ( My mum used to insist on eating a lettuce sandwich to help her sleep, I always treated it as a bit of a fad - but as in many things she was probably right.)

I have to admit though that there have been times when I have tried all of these and none of them worked. Usually I can't sleep in times of stress and worry which won't clear from my head.
 
Toucan said:
* My mum used to insist on eating a lettuce sandwich to help her sleep, I always treated it as a bit of a fad - but as in many things she was probably right.
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She was probably raised on Beatrix Potter - the Flopsy Bunnies nearly came to a very sticky end because of the soporific effect of too much lettuce!
 
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