RE: Cortisol - side effects? - insomnia

[Guest guest]

I'll get *really* bad insomnia if I take even 2mg cortisol

(Isocort) after about 9:30 or 10 at night (when usually getting up at

7-9). Then I'm usually up until about 4 or 5 AM. I also noticed,

before I was at anywhere near an adequate dosage (I'm now weaning,

was up to 26mg which I don't think was enough) that I'd get really

*sleepy* around 6PM. This was about an hour after the sun went

down. I was thinking it was some light-reaction as my BGs didn't

seem to be high consistently.

Jim

[Guest guest]

Me too. I can't take it past 8 pm if I go to bed by 11:30 pm or midnight or

else I wake up around 3:30-5 am.

Cheri

-----Original Message-----

I'll get *really* bad insomnia if I take even 2mg cortisol

(Isocort) after about 9:30 or 10 at night (when usually getting up at

7-9). Then I'm usually up until about 4 or 5 AM. I also noticed,

before I was at anywhere near an adequate dosage (I'm now weaning,

was up to 26mg which I don't think was enough) that I'd get really

*sleepy* around 6PM. This was about an hour after the sun went

down. I was thinking it was some light-reaction as my BGs didn't

seem to be high consistently.

Jim

[Guest guest]

Really? So you don't take the bed-time dose, you go to sleep after

11PM and you can sleep through the night or at least not wake up at

5AM and can't get back to sleep? Maybe I need to try backing up that

last dose to much earlier although that will compress my dosing

schedule so that I can't take my 40mg 5x anymore.

>

> Me too. I can't take it past 8 pm if I go to bed by 11:30 pm or

midnight or

> else I wake up around 3:30-5 am.

> Cheri

> -----Original Message-----

[Guest guest]

Yeah, I tried a bedtime dose and kept waking up. Now I sleep through usually

6 am then fall back asleep until 8:30 am. The one exception is during my

period. The bed time dose seemed to have the opposite effect on me than some

others...made waking up much worse. I don't have a problem falling asleep

(between 10-12 depending on if I watch Nightline). My problem is waking up

during the night. I have been getting much better sleep too since going to

all cream and taking larger morning doses.

I am on a four dose schedule myself. I only add a fifth if I stress dose on

a bad day.

Cheri

Re: Cortisol - side effects? - insomnia

Really? So you don't take the bed-time dose, you go to sleep after

11PM and you can sleep through the night or at least not wake up at

5AM and can't get back to sleep? Maybe I need to try backing up that

last dose to much earlier although that will compress my dosing

schedule so that I can't take my 40mg 5x anymore.

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