It's not from workingout, I definitely think it's due to immobility. I believe the insomnia I've been dealing with for years was aggravated by the TRT, and that kept me from staying in one place for too long, which eliminated the cause of pain. Now that I'm sleeping longer in one position, the pain now has time to set in before it gets so bad that it wakes me up. I'm may try the ibuprofen thing however, I have a question for anyone who may know. Up until about 2 years ago, I used to drink pretty much nightly and on rough days, I'd pop ibuprofen like candy for the hangovers. I'm just concerned that the combo of drinking and ibuprofen may have weakened my liver's resistance to the stuff and so I'd be more likely to have problems now. Is that likely or is what I've heard about the liver repairing itself over time if allowed to heal is true? I've also heard that a high protein diet helps the liver to regenerate and I've been eating quite a bit of it over the past few years. All my blood work over the past year shows my liver is healthy too. I'm finally getting myself healthy again and I'd hate to resolve one problem, only to create another.
As far as cardio to help with sleep, unfortunately that never worked for me, sometimes I'd have the opposite effect. Prior to my Low T, I used to be a pretty hard core mountain biker and skier. I could spend *all day* on the mountain and still only get 5 hours of sleep. I haven't been able to "sleep in" since my very early 20s. The other interesting thing is I used to have vivid dreams and recall all the details. I even used to lucid dream all the time and control what I did, now I rarely even remember if I dream or not and when I do, the details are very foggy and quickly fade. It sucks.
On a side note, I also suffer from chronic sinus problems. As a result, I can only sleep on my left side, if I roll over on my back my sinuses close up and I can't breathe which I'm sure is attributing to the sleep apnea. I can sleep on my right side but for what ever reason, for only about 30 mins before I wake up. In the past year I've found I often slide off the edge of the bed in the middle of the night and wake up sleeping on the floor with my back against the bed. I'm sure this too has to do with breathing restrictions. Although it has improved in the past month as my sleep has improved. I tend to do it less and less. There's a new, non-evasive out patient procedure to open sinus passages called Sinuplasty. It's similar to angioplasty where they insert a saline filled balloon in your sinus passage to open them. It's relatively new so I'm having a difficult time finding anyone who will do it let alone someone who will do it without insurance. But I'm confident it would help me as I'm often getting sinus infections which only aggravates the problem. Boy.. it sure would be nice to be normal again without all these problems, but then again, that's why I'm here. I'm trying to take charge of my life and get beyond this crap which is why I value everyone's input so much.
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