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> I now can’t sleep for more than 5 hours a night without waking up and not being able to go back to sleep for an hour or two. Have you ruled out alcohol? I’v
by mrfusion 6y ago
> I now can’t sleep for more than 5 hours a night without waking up and not being able to go back to sleep for an hour or two.
Have you ruled out alcohol? I’ve heard drinking at night can cause that.
- IgorPartola 6y agoI don’t drink most days, and if I do I don’t get drunk except maybe once a year.
- edoceo 6y agoOther sugars too, the blood-sugar drop signals wake up and eat. iIRC
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>Have you ruled out alcohol? I’ve heard drinking at night can cause that. For the over whelming majority of homo-sapiens alcohol tends to increase, not decrease, the propensity to sleep for many hours. Sure there's edge cases but they're rare enough and hard enough to differentiate from other problems that nobody should be trying to diagnose those over the internet.
- mrfusion 6y agoI was surprised to learn the opposite: https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20130118/alcohol-sleep https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20130118/alcohol-...