I wake up in the middle of the night every night for years
I have tried everything . I’m 32 years old male who has been waking up at 2-3 am every night for years now. As long as I can remember. Yes I have tried magnesium glycinate , melatonin, unisom, seroquel, any stupid otc supplement you can think of . They have made little to no difference. I took a sleep study and don’t have sleep apnea. And I even use a mute nasal dilator and mouth tape while sleeping which gives me even better air flow. I’ve tried ear plugs and eye masks. I’ve tried not looking at screens or devices before bed. Going to bed earlier. Going to bed later. Everything.
I do take lamotrigine for BP2 but even before I was taking it I had sleep issues for years.
What I believe (and I could very well be wrong) is my cortisol spikes middle of the night and wakes me up. Obviously , I cannot control this. There is no off switch.
I don’t want to take medications for sleep. Unisom for example didn’t help and made me exhausted the next day.
I pretty much run off life with 3-4 hours of sleep a night daily. I’m in good shape and have a clean diet and exercise about 5 days a week. My testosterone levels are low at about 300 range most likely due to sleep problems
I need to perform at a high level for my sales job. I also am relatively ‘weak’ and don’t have a lot of energy. I am at a point to where I have given up on trying to fix my sleep and go on TRT instead to at least help me perform in life off little sleep.
I don’t know what to do anymore