Re: Developed middle/terminal insomnia all of a sudden

I wanted to update this thread and see if anybody had some good info regarding adrenal fatigue. I have tried GABA and 5-HTP as suggested and while I think it has helped a little, it hasn't fixed my sleep-maintenance insomnia.

I think I have a mild case of adrenal fatigue. I do not have all the symptoms typically associated with AF but some things like sometimes having a spike of energy at night and having that tired but wired feeling are classic AF, I think. In addition I usually always wake up in 1 1/2 hour increments which is how long a sleep cycle is.

In addition, it seems that when I go to the gym my symptoms worsen which means my adrenals are probably fatigued and exercise fatigues them even more. The timeline makes sense because my symptoms started towards the end of summer and during the summer I was going in the gym 4x a week and I noticed that in the summer that I needed more naps and was tired even though I had normal sleep.

The thing is I did work out for about a year beforehand and was completely fine. I then took a year off and started again last summer. Perhaps something happened in that year. The only thing that comes to mind is I started smoking marijuana, but as mentioned before I don't smoke very much (once every few weeks) so I'm not sure if that is it. I know I mentioned that brownie before in the original post but perhaps it was just a coincidence that my symptoms started when I had it.

I am taking the B vitamins as mentioned before so I don't think a B vitamin deficiency is the cause of it, but rather something else that I am unsure of. My diet is very, very good with plenty of good fats, protein, and good carbs from veggies, potatoes, some rice, and fruit. I do not have caffeine at all and am not stressed at all. I guess I will have to get a saliva test to confirm my cortisol results. I assume I have low cortisol.