i have sleep problems, but i also have a bad spine curve so its painful to lay down.but i know with my ED my bones sticking out makes it hard to get comfortable to go to sleep.

i feel exactly the same, i give up sleeping just lately, i wake up every couple of hours and many times find myself lying awake from 4am-6m just thinking. i dont know if its cuz of the ED or if its the problems going around in my head. xx

Hmm. I always thought it was more down to my mood than my ED. If I'm worried/nervous/otherwise stressed then I don't sleep much at all. If I'm really depressed (which is usually when my ED is at it's worst) then I sleep all the time. I can have 9 hours of sleep and still be tired O.o

i have a hard time falling and staying asleep. my mind usually wanders, and i stay up thinking when i should be sleeping. i also wake up several times during the night.

Everyone I know with EDs also have sleep disturbances it seems. For me, I never sleep solidly for more than an hour or two...very broken sleep totaling no more than 4 hrs per 24 hr period. It's annoying & it sucks, doesn't it?

It's mostly my depression that won't let me sleep. But also my anorexia. I wake up because my hipbone hurts so much. I usually wake up every 2-3 hours. Sometimes I can go back to sleep withing minutes so it doesn't bother me. It's when I lay awake that's driving me crazy. On very rare occassions I only wake up once and the next morning I'm as happy as a little kid on Christmas that I got so much sleep.

I have insomnia. I don't know whether I should blame my ED, depression, anxiety, or myself. Ambien CR works wonders though.

Some of it is probably down to malnutrition.

In particular, calcium, magnesium, and the B vitamins.

Talk to your dietitian about adding in a powder Calcium-Magnesium supplement at bedtime. Even folks without deficiencies find that helps them drift right off. (pills don't get absorbed as well, but if all you can stomach are pills it is better than nothing)

A magnesium deficiency also exacerbates anxiety and depression. As does a B vitamin deficiency.

Not being able to sleep has to do with the electrolyte imbalance going on in your body it causes insomnia.

are you able to elaborate more on the electrolytes?

As soon as I saw that word, my exercises and ed, fighting together could be what's making me not sleep.

I saw a doc the other day for this, and he prescribed a pill for me - tastes horrible, and has a stupid bad side effect - horrible long lasting taste

It's really strange. Long ago. when I first met my husband, I was able to have my first night of sleep in years. I was a major insomniac at the height of anorexia. Since being with hubby, I can now sleep - and have found that since I have relapsed, I can sleep pretty much anytime, anyplace. Bags under my eyes, unable to deal, stupid tired.It's like my adrenaline has stopped working! Weird.

Oh well, I always did like to be different!!

well more on the electrolyte thing umm from anorexia you can develop a fluid volume deficit, hypokalemia(not enought potassium), Hypomagnesemia, hypophosphatemia, and hyponatremia(sodium loss, Hypocalcemia all of these can be life threatning imbalances with serious side effects not sure how to explain why they cause insomnia I guess just because your body is out of wack ya know...well hope this helped...

i have the opposite problem! i sleep way too much. i can sleep for 12 hours or more if given the opportunity. but that's probably due to anemia more than anything

i dont sleep well either...and since i hate lying awake with the thoughts about how i might die an early death from my ED, i take otc sleeping pills...they help out tons

I take stilnox on ocassion. Sometimes I get scared going to bed, worried that I'm not going to be able to sleep...They're the worst.