diabetes and sleep(eness)
Question:
Hello people. I am T1 in last 18 years and I have neen very worried in last time. Yes, I had noncontroled pubertet, yes, I have neuropathy (oh, can you help me also with my constant pain in the legg (as if I’ve had 3 hours of active sport, that kind of pain, even on the little pressure I feel it) and retinopathy (severe, flourid, after 12 lasers I can’t see in the centar of my right eye). But it started since I started University. Often I wouldn’t awake, and I was tempting more and more to sleep thru morning. In the last year or so it became terrible. I am sleeping up to 16 hours a day!!! My psy told me I don’t have sleeping disorder and I am not depressed at all although I am a bit eccentric and I am taking a minimal dose (50mg)of antipsyhotic Solian (I believe that I can persuade whole world somehow to became vegetarian, and I belive that we will find antiageing treatment). But I am sleeping too much, really. Psy said it can be related to diabetes, although my hemoglobin was 6.7 and the doctor was satisfaid because it’s slowly going down. Yes, in last year or so, because I get angry when I reach even 200mg/dl glicemy I am giving more often injection of insulin, trying to immitate natural organism and pump (4 times a day 7 injections (humalog and umulin nph), but I often end up with much more than 7 a day). Doc said, althou is strange it’s OK because only like that I succeded to put hemoglobin under the control. There is no antisleepeng pills yet, and my psy doesn’t think I am for amphetamins. What do you think? How to cope with pain in the legs, first? How to sleep less, and what can help me? TIA, Jupiter
Response:
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello people. I am T1 in last 18 years and I have neen very worried in last time. Yes, I had noncontroled pubertet, yes, I have neuropathy (oh, can you help me also with my constant pain in the legg (as if I’ve had 3 hours of active sport, that kind of pain, even on the little pressure I feel it) and retinopathy (severe, flourid, after 12 lasers I can’t see in the centar of my right eye). But it started since I started University. Often I wouldn’t awake, and I was tempting more and more to sleep thru morning. In the last year or so it became terrible. I am sleeping up to 16 hours a day!!! My psy told me I don’t have sleeping disorder and I am not depressed at all although I am a bit eccentric and I am taking a minimal dose (50mg)of antipsyhotic Solian (I believe that I can persuade whole world somehow to became vegetarian, and I belive that we will find antiageing treatment). But I am sleeping too much, really. Psy said it can be related to diabetes, although my hemoglobin was 6.7 and the doctor was satisfaid because it’s slowly going down. Yes, in last year or so, because I get angry when I reach even 200mg/dl glicemy I am giving more often injection of insulin, trying to immitate natural organism and pump (4 times a day 7 injections (humalog and umulin nph), but I often end up with much more than 7 a day). Doc said, althou is strange it’s OK because only like that I succeded to put hemoglobin under the control. There is no antisleepeng pills yet, and my psy doesn’t think I am for amphetamins. What do you think? How to cope with pain in the legs, first? How to sleep less, and what can help me?
Hi Jupiter. Sorry to hear about your troubles, but the sleeping one looks VERY much like a higher than wanted blood sugar level problem to me. If I go high (and for me, that’s anything above 
I could sleep on a razor blade edge and never think about it. That’s how tired I get, so I ensure I don’t go much above 7 if at all possilbe. If I keep below 7, then my energy levels are excellent and I can (and do) sleep less than 5 hours each day. 5 hours is actually a lot for me, but the FEELING of needing sleep comes almost immediately after dinner when my sugar IS rising too far too fast. That’s when I have one of the hours sleep I get, but I have to eat ONE "Mrs Beav’s" meal each day coz she’s the worlds best chef and I love her cooking:-) Maybe eating food that better matches the profile of your insulins would be a good idea. That way keeping your levels where you want the, isn’t as hard as it is when you eat "mismatched" foods. (Pasta springs to mind:-)) Beav
