Anyone still here who has improved sleep after lyme was gone?

I know people get on with their lives, but it would be great to hear back from folks that healed. Not to make yet another insomnia post, but my headline question I have not seen yet.

Does full sleep ever come back? Below is a copy of one of my replies to another thread describing my lyme insomnia experience:

Tired and wired seems to be one of the themes amongst us. In people without vector infections, tired and wired is noted to be adrenal fatigue. If it were only that simple with us, as there is obviously more to our insomnia.

Having experimented a lot with adrenal adaptations and some nuero amino acids, I can make inconistant sleep improvements, but not repeatable every night.

To my amasment I slept 8-1/2 straight fri night (a first in months) only to be followed by drifting in and out of very light sleep to no sleep last night. It has been a little better this month on average than in the past, but the unpredictability of it drives me nuts. I dont think I could have a job that had no flexiblity in the time schedule.

I have fallen asleep in the chair watching TV, then drag my but to bed to just lay awake.

I feel more wired the next day after poor sleep. Its like the body struggling to stay awake in the day time makes me wired.

Sometimes exercise (not to much though) will help me sleep better.

Funny, if I take a 5 min power nap (more like deep meditation with my eyes shut) during the day, I'm better for a couple hours.

Also anything out of the ordinary that I need to do the next day (work or personal life) seems to trigger worse insomnia. Simple things seem to become stressors and I and then I cant shut off my brain - I've heard this described by others as well.

Seems like my concoction of stuff to help sleep , I need to change up as I soon become immune to it.

Before diagnosis I had awful nights. I was waking every two hours choking, gagging, with anxiety. I was not getting into the deep sleep stage and was duagnosed with sleep apnea. I tried the c-pap machine but it didnt help.

I started treatment and within a month it started to improve. I am now only waking up once or twice and I am in bed from 11:00 to 8:30 or 9:00 many nights. If I wake up early in the morning I get back to sleep easily. I am dreaming again!!

I think what symptoms improve first vary - I havent had much relief from my pain since treating for 4 months ... but my sleep and anxiety and depressed mood have,

I believe your sleep issues will resolve as you continue to treat.

I too have suffered from terrible, terrible insomnia! I went for a couple of years waking up more tired than when I went to sleep the night before, only to sit on my bed and cry when daylight would come and I realized that I had to face yet another day with even less sleep.

My insomnia did improve greatly - then I got reinfected!!!!! and now I'm back into where I'll sleep great for a few nights, then boom! 3 am comes and I'm wide awake!!! Happened last night and try as I might, there was no going back to sleep, so the pups and I get up so as to not wake hubby.

I hate the 3 am hour!!!

The 'wired but tired' is a sign of adrenal issues and anyone with that feeling needs to be sure they are thoroughly tested for adrenal and thyroid issues, as they are quite common issues with Lyme patients. If a person's thyroid or adrenal glands aren't functioning well, it can make it impossible to heal from these infections.

Back in December, January, February, it was bad for me... The only way I could sleep would be to take a sleeping pill... And even then i could only sleep for 4 hours.

It has gotten better. Much better actually, but I find when I do sleep, if I wake up I have a hard time falling back asleep. I think the disease broke down one of my sleeping mechanisms in my brain. But at least I am sleeping soundly and deeply once again.

I like healings suggestion... Sleep at 9 every night, I think I will be doing that regularly now.

I take Meriva-500 and l-theanine supplements before bed and it also helps.