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Can weight loss be a cure for insomnia? I would love to know if anyone has researched it. I'm too tired and lazy right now to try to research it myself. I joined Weight Watchers 3 weeks ago and have lost 8 pounds since starting. I hope this trend continues, and I hope somehow it will help my insomnia. I've tried quite a few different pills for sleep and they all quit working, usually before 1 month is up. So I keep switching back and forth between prescriptions (refills) and now I'm at the point that I think I need to call my psychiatrist again and hopefully he will prescribe something new to me. I wish he would just prescribe zanaflex or the generic, it's a muscle relaxer that knocks me out usually. But I have to take 2 for it to do that, one just doesn't do anything to me.
Anyway.. I hope losing weight will help me. I started exercising 30 minutes a day in two 15 minute sessions. I tend to find it easier for me to get up and exercise when it's night time, or late evening. I'm sure that's not helping my insomnia… But I never have the motivation to do it earlier in the day. I'll work on that…
I don't think it's the weight loss that cures the insomnia per se, I'd say it's more the exercise and release of dopamine that would heighten your general self confidence and mood, which in turn would affect your positive state of mind helping you to sleep better.
Actually it can, if your insomnia is due to trouble breathing/lack of oxygen or one of the sleep apneas.
It seems that because I had really bad sleep apnea prior to my surgeries I should have lost weight since my surgeries. I've done nothing but gain weight since I had it done. Though I am losing weight now while on Weight Watchers. I found out I have PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome) which is probably the primary cause of my obesity. I was a large girl before puberty but I ballooned outward when i hit it. So Yeah, thanks PCOS. I'm now on birth control to control the symptoms and still have trouble sleeping. My psychiatrist never called me back 3 weeks ago. I'm going to call him on Monday and hopefully speak to him. I may try myself on the other sleeping pill Sonata again. The Silenor isn't doing anything for me, it's not even keeping me asleep throughout the night. Though I can usually get back to sleep within an hour of being up.
Long story short, I'm taking moms excess zanaflex (muscle relaxer) to get to sleep. Taking 2 knocks me out. Taking one does nothing to me. So two it is. So as long as I can get to sleep and have some sort of working insomnia pill in my system I should be able to sleep the whole night. It's working so far. I'm just sick of taking so many pills.
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