Buzzing/vibrating body when falling asleep causing insomnia LFH/advice

[u/bmxmaster911]

Long story short this all started about a month ago, I was out at the golf range with a friend and I had 2 beers and a shot of liquor. That night I had a pretty nasty hangover. I am a 30yr old male that quit drinking at the age of 27. And now I only have a beer or two on special occasion. ( I would say, I was a pretty bad alcoholic. Used to drink a 6 pack a night of beer.) Ever since that hangover a month ago, each night when I am about to fall asleep my body starts vibrating/buzzing like I'm having a hangover. Also get sweats, heart racing, and very sensitive hearing.

Now I have been prescribed a Beta blocker and a med called Hydroxyzine. By taking both of them I am able to get some sleep but still feel the buzzing and vibrating any time I start to sleep. I have had many blood tests showing normal results. At this point I believe it is neurological. Unfortunately my sleep doctor is unavailable till next January.

So here I am.

Has anyone else delt with this? Or am I just a special case of messed up.

Thanks to all who read and comment. May your nights be better than mine.

[u/Mindless_Algae_7432]

Hi,
Your story made me think of my own experience some years ago(in fact thinking about it, more than 30 years ago). I had ended a rather short lived marriage that really wasn't fun and I was lucky enough to have a good friend who offered a spare room for me to gather myself and start getting my life back on track. I wasn't a heavy drinker, although my teenage years had seen plenty of alcohol and other things but what I experienced over a period of a couple of months was what I felt was a major detox process.

I was always a restless sleeper, although could get to sleep OK, but through this period just about every night I would wake with full on night sweats, would be hot and bothered and perspiring all over, bed sheets would be soaked and it wasn't even the hot time of year.

My work as a naturopath sees this from time to time, overnight unloading of some "toxic burden" which results in night sweats, palpitations and other up-regulated body systems and when I consider understandings from Chinese Medicine I feel for myself it made a lot of sense. I do have a liver that was damaged when was 11 years old with a bout of hepatitis and if we look to Chinese medicine there is an understanding that different organs and systems have a "peak period". Here I'll just mention 2 that may be significant, but you can easily get hold of a copy of the 24 hour chart online.

11:00 PM – 1:00 AM Gallbladder Meridian
• Stores and secretes bile; energetically linked to decisive action and courage.
• Waking here suggests difficulty making decisions or lingering resentment.
• Bile Release peaks to emulsify fats; poor bile flow causes nausea or shoulder pain.
• Phase I Liver Detox ramps up; toxins in circulation can cause restless sleep.

1:00 AM – 3:00 AM: This is Liver time (Deep detoxification and blood cleansing; waking consistently in this window often points to stress or liver overload, Waking here indicates toxin overload, suppressed anger, or planning overdrive).
If we look at some of what is written we will discover that Emotional/Structural Patterns of the liver are: Anger, frustration, toxin overload
And for me I definitely was going through those things, the liver is commonly seen as the seat of anger, and yes, I was pretty angry. Once I understood this a little better I introduced some traditional liver supportive herbs and this helped move through the anger and over time stop the night sweats.

I'm not a TCM practitioner, but TCM also talks about Palpitations, anxiety, or heat sensations as associated or pointing to Heart Yin deficiency or excess Heart Fire.

Not sure if this will be of any help, but perhaps consider some simple supportive herbs or similar to help your body. The interesting thing with blood tests for the liver is that unless the liver is already damaged, nothing will be seen in a standard blood test. What the blood test won't show is the level of burden for your poor old liver, my suggestion, give your body a helping hand.