First off I'm male, 31yrs old
never drink, dont smoke, no chronic illnesses, eat a whole food diet, fresh/local/non gmo.
Recently, Ive found it difficult to sleep soundly for 7 + hours. Normally, I sleep 9-10 hours. Difference is now I tend to wake up between 2-4 hours and find it hard to fall back asleep when I'd normally just either fall back asleep or sleep through.
I eventually do fall back asleep say I go to bed at 1am wake at 4am go to sleep at 6 or 7am wake up at 9am then try to sleep but stay in bed til 11 or 12pm. (my normal schedule is fall asleep at 2 or 3am sleep til 1-12pm.)
Also, I get a weird feeling or sensation of falling/sinking feeling in my stomach soon as im drifting off to sleep. it wakes me out of it. atlesdt 3-4 times when I try to get back to sleep.
Thing is I dont feel sleepy next day...I feel an inbetween feeling; never alert but not sleepy, an anxious middle ground, low mood/can do labor but not fresh alert awake feeling...also like I look like i need sleep, imo.
Past 2 weeks I quit pre workouts and creatine to give my kidneys/adrenals a break... I did use one past sunday and had coffee today.
Sunday I worked legs and it was a hard workout to get through. I was fatiguing with less weight, urinated like 10 times, had BO, breathing heavy/felt narrow throat but afterward felt elated a bit...then walked 7 miles went to sleep at 3am and may have woken up and felt/looked like shit next day. ( pale, dry skin, dark circles, ruddy skin,)
is this high cortisol? anemia? fatigue? low test? hypo thyroid? or male somatopause?
takes me an extra day to recover.
should i start looking at cortisol test or blood panel?
is it pre workout stimulant withdrawls, as Ive relied on them for years to get tbru workouts, only taking breaks when broke or they quit working.
thanks.
never drink, dont smoke, no chronic illnesses, eat a whole food diet, fresh/local/non gmo.
Recently, Ive found it difficult to sleep soundly for 7 + hours. Normally, I sleep 9-10 hours. Difference is now I tend to wake up between 2-4 hours and find it hard to fall back asleep when I'd normally just either fall back asleep or sleep through.
I eventually do fall back asleep say I go to bed at 1am wake at 4am go to sleep at 6 or 7am wake up at 9am then try to sleep but stay in bed til 11 or 12pm. (my normal schedule is fall asleep at 2 or 3am sleep til 1-12pm.)
Also, I get a weird feeling or sensation of falling/sinking feeling in my stomach soon as im drifting off to sleep. it wakes me out of it. atlesdt 3-4 times when I try to get back to sleep.
Thing is I dont feel sleepy next day...I feel an inbetween feeling; never alert but not sleepy, an anxious middle ground, low mood/can do labor but not fresh alert awake feeling...also like I look like i need sleep, imo.
Past 2 weeks I quit pre workouts and creatine to give my kidneys/adrenals a break... I did use one past sunday and had coffee today.
Sunday I worked legs and it was a hard workout to get through. I was fatiguing with less weight, urinated like 10 times, had BO, breathing heavy/felt narrow throat but afterward felt elated a bit...then walked 7 miles went to sleep at 3am and may have woken up and felt/looked like shit next day. ( pale, dry skin, dark circles, ruddy skin,)
is this high cortisol? anemia? fatigue? low test? hypo thyroid? or male somatopause?
takes me an extra day to recover.
should i start looking at cortisol test or blood panel?
is it pre workout stimulant withdrawls, as Ive relied on them for years to get tbru workouts, only taking breaks when broke or they quit working.
thanks.