Anyone else can’t sleep because of Covid symptoms

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Have incredible thirst plus restless legs.
I’m assuming the restless legs are covid related, maybe it’s a separate thing.
I’m so exhausted but for the second night in a row my body won’t let me sleep

Yes I had horrible feverish dreams and constant waking last night (hence being on MN at 1am and 4am!!) am boiling hot despite it being cool in my bedroom and also got a raging thirst and a headache.

You have my every sympathy

Do you have a good radio station you liked? I spent most nights awake with mine just couldn’t settle. Helped to keep me
Company.

Oh no! Sympathy back at you

I had it last december. Horrendous insomnia and a kind of wired feeling so I couldn't rest. Hope you get better soon, it's awful.

@Akire that’s a good idea. I tend to put a podcast on when I can’t sleep or listen to a Calm sleep story. Last night I was wired and kept listening from start to finish though which is definitely not the objective!

Have you taken some paracetamol OP to try and bring your fever down

YES to the restless legs. I had a terrible night with them! I had about 3 awful nights sleep followed by about 7 × 12 hour jobs!

Yes with the legs!
I had to get up and walk every hour or so. I made my stand goal before midday!

Yeah I tested positive last Wednesday then had 3 nights in a row of feeling like I had insomnia but also couldn't sleep because my nose was blocked and I kept coughing! Since then it's gradually getting better, I managed to sleep through untill 6am this morning before I woke up having a coughing fit! I've also being really thirty throughout the day today, my lips are chapped, I have been drinking lots, but maybe it's from being indoors for so long 🤔

A podcast is a good idea thanks.
And I think I’m due more paracetamol.
It feels weird, usually with a virus I’d sleep well unless I was too congested or whatever. It’s strange feeling so annoyingly wide awake just when my body needs rest.

I empathise 😭 I've had no sleep for four nights now. I'm not sure whats worse.....
Coughing everytime I breathe
Restless legs
Shaking from fever (paracetamol not doing alot)
The BLINDING headache

God I'm feeling sorry for myself.....

I keep a sports bottle propped up next to my pillow and sip all night.

Giving everyone hugs. IT'S THE WORST!!!! XXX

Magnesium oil is fantastic for restless legs. I've been using Better You spray for years and it works a treat. Hope you have some better sleep and get well very soon.

Do you have magnesium?.
That could help massively both with sleeplessness and restless legs.
Epsom salts in the bath?
Magnesium in a supplement/ multivitamin.

I have had the dreadful restless legs and thirst too! Hours awake every night. I was taking magnesium and having a magnesium salts bath for ages and it wasn't touching it.

Now on day 8 and the thirst has slightly abated and I think I feel marginally better so am taking that as a sign I have turned a corner.

Great about the magnesium tips, thanks🙂. I have to virtually crush my legs to numbness & cause pain to get restless legs under control. I found sleeping prone helped my Covid breathing issues ( had it twice, 1st time horrendous). Apparantly ice packs on the chest helps the vagus nerve & aids sleep. Reading helped me sleep too.

Speedy recovery by the way x

You could also try a warm bath with Epsom salts if you have any. Really helped my random muscle spasms and joint aches

I find magnesium oil works best on the back of my neck and on my legs.
Magnesium chloride is the most absorbable for baths, magnesium glycinate orally.
I still see most notable benefit from applying the oil - sensitive version as the other brings me out in a rash.

Magnesium is needed in something like 300 processes and of course depletes when we're I'll. It also is used more quickly when taking vitamin d - which is a good thing, bit needs replenishing.

Am actually (sadly) hugely to relieved that I am not the only experiencing this together with the wired/anxious feeling. I didn't realise that these were some of the Covid symptoms.

I’ve recently found potassium works for my restless legs. So try bananas or coconut water. Magnesium and iron are also supposed to help.

Or potassium citrate on Amazon.

I felt like I had red hot ants running inside my legs. Fortunately it only lasted a couple of nights. Those were long, long hours.
Hope you make a quick recovery.

My mother swears by this when she has restless legs ... www.boots.com/antistax-leg-and-vein-massage-gel-125ml-10161624

@alphabetsoup1980 that sounds rough, I hope you’re on the mend and will get some good sleep at last.
You too @Grimbelina
Thankfully in the end I only had two wakeful nights. Third night I slept ok.
I tend to get restless legs now and then so I need to keep my magnesium levels up. But those were my worst restless legs ever, what I just had with covid - so intense.
That massage gel sounds good too.

Glad you are feeling better. I think Covid possibly plays havoc with our neurotransmitters ie dopamine, serotonin etc along with heaven knows what else. I that can correlate to anxiety, depression, another Covid side effect. I've read that low dopamine is another probable cause of restless legs which seems to be somewhat unexplained with various theories. We are complicated creatures!

Thank you OP for starting this thread. I'm struggling with the insomnia and wired feeling, tonight is by far the worst so far and I'm at least a week in. Have to be up at 6 and right now I feel like I'll never sleep again! Just hoping that when 6 o' clock comes I still feel wide awake and not sleep deprived! You were ill before Christmas, how are you doing now? Sleeping better I hope! 😃