The question that I now have is what are you going to do? Do you go through life with crappy sleep and expect that is the "norm" for you? Or do you try the next step, track your sleep and find a solution?
I appreciate you caring. Well, for me, I did a home sleep test, which reported mild apnea, and so I am going to try CPAP. That's my next step. After that?.... nothing. There's pretty much nothing left for me to try. Which is mildly terrifying. So, then I guess I just need to try to deal with it, like many people who have incurable disabilities. It's horrible, I won't lie.
In my case, it works but I am looking at pain.
What do you mean by "it"? Have you raised your D to between 60-80 and your sleep has improved because of it? Because that's the "it" that that doctor is mainly talking about, and which I tried.
I think I understand why it worked for me, but the bigger question is why didn't it work for you...?
Again, not sure what you mean by "it". Let's be clear here: the crux of her theory/contention is that if you raise your D levels to 60-80 your sleep will improve. That is the proposal. That is the "it" on the table. So, to answer your question: the reason it didn't work for me is that it is likely bunk. No offense to you when I say that, by the way. I am not at all against herbal medicine and so-called "alternative" medicine, if it works. For example: many, many years ago, my sinuses were killing me. One nostril totally plugged, it was terrible. Went to "the doctor," who said I did not have a sinus infection, and (of course) gave me a prescription for an anti-histamine, which I did not fill, having already tried over the counter antihistamines, which did nothing. I don't know why, but I went to an herbal shop, and the woman who worked there listened my situation, walked over to the wall, picked out a bottle of something called "ALJ" by a company called Nature's Sunshine. She said take so and so many of these before bed, when I wake up, and throughout day, and that it will help flush my system of mucus and whatnot. I went home, started taking these capsules (a mix of herbs), and literally a few hours later, my nose unclogged and the pain went away. It was amazing. And from that moment on, I have recognized the potential power and efficacy of herbal medicine. I have used that product over the years when having sinus issues, and it has always worked, without fail.
That said, I have tried pretty much every herbal remedy under the sun to get better sleep, and none of them have helped at all. That does not mean that they are bunk, it simply means that they are not the thing to help my problem...whatever it is, and which I do feel might remain a mystery, as a sleep study cannot find it (I don't have the other things sleep studies can detect), and I'm not going to gamble $1,700 on an in lab study that, as I said, is not going to give me any useful data that I don't already have, or can try treating myself anyway. So then I'm left with speculation/theory/experimentation, which I have been doing for my entire adult life, to no effect. This is why I was excited when I came across that theory about D. And I was disappointed when I achieved the stated goal of above 60, and my sleep had not improved even one iota.
Anyway, I'm going to try CPAP, but since nothing has worked so far, I'm honestly not very hopeful, though of course I have to have some hope that it might help. I'm just not looking forward to my sleep being disturbed BY the CPAP, which will be pretty crappy, since I already wake up so exhausted. But I can't think of what else to do or try.
So, may I ask, what was your D level when you started her protocol? How much D are you taking now? When do you plan to test again?
