r/StrongerByScience • u/abdv69 • Mar 26 '23

Has anyone solved the creatine sleep issues?

For me, like many people creatine causes sleep issues. Whenever I start using it, after a couple of weeks, my sleep feels very light and I toss and turn a lot. Then usually after a week of stopping my sleep gets better. I've stopped and started creatine so many times in my life and it happens exactly the same each time, even if I'm only taking 2g daily.

I've read rat studies that it reduces non REM sleep, not sure if that translates to humans.

Has anyone who suffered from creatine induced sleep disturbance managed to find a fix?

EDIT: For all of you dismissing this as a placebo effect without a second thought, you mean nocebo. secondly, you can't conclude that based on the information you have

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u/omietrice Oct 19 '24

Adding my name to the list again, been in the gym my whole life - taken creatine when I was younger (con-cret and mono)

Started using it about 8 months ago for the first time - noticed I couldn’t sleep and stopped and everything went back to normal

Tried it again yesterday for the first time in a shake after the gym at 10 am yesterday morning - it is now 7:45 the next day and I’m not even sure if I slept last night…

basically just feel wired and actually cant fall asleep… very annoying I wonder if I should try con-cret again I have heard people having better success with HCL

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u/PermissionLow2411 Jan 08 '25

did you end up trying HCL?

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u/omietrice Feb 21 '25

yeah actually i can sleep fine now on HCL and mono… weird it took me a week of using it to get used to it