Mine was the same deal for a good couple months, worst the first night or two after injecting, and at 55 lbs down I can tell you it did eventually quiet down on its own. What made the wait bearable for me was getting up and reading in another room instead of lying there stewing about it. Your body will likely find its rhythm too.
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Sleep shifted again this week - anyone else?
I'm about 18 lbs down and my rough nights cluster right around my shot too, though they've gotten shorter each week. Something that helped me was cutting my afternoon coffee - once I did that, the 2am staring-at-the-ceiling thing eased up a lot. Sounds like we're all on the same timeline for it settling.
22 lbs down here and the post-shot wired nights never fully vanished for me, but they got way shorter once I stopped fighting it and just accepted a later bedtime those couple days. Worth tracking which nights it hits so you know it's the med and not you doing something wrong.
Those wired nights still show up for me around my shot even at 28 lbs down, but they're a fraction of what they were early on. Shifting my bedtime later instead of lying there forcing it made a bigger difference than anything else I tried. Give it a few more weeks - the pattern does loosen up.
Only a few pounds down here but same story - the restless nights show up a day or two after my shot and then fade. I stopped lying in bed trying to force it and just get up and read until I'm actually sleepy, which beats the 2am ceiling-staring. Mine are already shorter than they were the first couple weeks, so sounds like it eases for most of us.
20 lbs down and the shot-night buzz still shows up for me too, just milder. What finally helped was getting out of bed when I noticed I wasn't drowsy - lying there was making it worse. By morning after it's usually back to normal for me.
Mine were worst in the first month and by 41 lbs down the wired nights are rare, though I still notice a night or two of tossing after my shot. Getting up and doing something boring in another room was the only thing that stopped the spiral for me. So yeah, it does fade, just slower than you'd like.
Even a couple years of shots in and I still get one wired night after dosing, so for me it never fully vanished, just lost its teeth. Those 2am nights were brutal early on but mine shifted from all-nighters to one rough evening, which is livable. At 9 lbs in you're barely started - give it a couple months before deciding this is your new normal.
Shot nights still throw me off at 27 lbs down, usually one late night then I'm back on track. Getting up and reading something dull in dim light beats staring at the ceiling, in my experience anyway. Sounds like yours is still in the early rough patch, so it may well mellow out.
I'm 28 lbs down and the shot-night jolt still shows up for me too, though it's down to one restless evening instead of a full stretch of them. What helped mine settle was keeping the room dark and cool and accepting the awake time instead of fighting it - the more I chased sleep the worse it got. Given you're only 9 lbs in, I'd bet yours still has room to smooth out.
Still happens to me at 31 lbs down, though way milder than the first couple months when I'd be wide awake half the night after shot day. Quitting the clock-watching and just getting up for a bit made the rough nights shorter for me. Nine lbs in, I'd expect yours to ease up too.
I'm on tirzepatide and had the same wired-at-2am thing those first several weeks, worst right after my weekly shot. Around when I hit 5mg it mellowed out to just one jittery night most weeks, so yeah, it eased up for me even if it never fully vanished. One rough night feels way more survivable than the early stretch did.
I'm nearly a year in and 48 lbs down, and shot-day restlessness still shows up for me, just as one meh night instead of a whole week of them. Getting up and reading in dim light instead of lying there was what finally made it bearable for me. It eases up way more than it disappears, in my experience.
Only a few weeks in myself and the shot-day tossing was the roughest part so far, though mine has already shrunk from two bad nights to one. Leaving the phone in another room helped me more than anything, since staring at the clock made it worse. Sounds like it just fades into one annoying night for most people, which is easier to live with.
Mine was brutal the first couple months on the 1mg but it finally settled into just one rough night after my shot most weeks. Getting out of bed instead of lying there arguing with the clock is the only thing that kept me sane during the bad stretch, for what it's worth. Congrats on the 9 lbs, that pace adds up faster than you think.
41 lbs down here and it's the same story - shot night still messes with me, but it went from a whole week of lying awake to maybe one rough evening. I stopped checking the time entirely and that alone took the edge off. Give it a couple months, it genuinely fades.
Roughly the same for me, about 10 lbs in and shot night still flips my clock around, but it went from a miserable couple of days to one restless evening. Quitting the bedroom clock-checking was what finally helped me. Given how many people here report the same fade, I'd bet yours settles too.
I'm only a few weeks in and about 3 lbs down, but shot night does the same thing to me - wired at midnight no matter how tired I am. Taking everyone's word that it shrinks down to one rough evening eventually, and I've started leaving my phone in the other room so I'm not staring at the time.
23 lbs in and shot nights still knock my sleep sideways, but it's a single restless evening now instead of three or four. Watching a movie till I actually feel drowsy instead of forcing it helped me more than anything. Seems like most of us hit that same one-night pattern eventually.
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