I have been taking Lecithin for aprox. 30 days now. About 3 weeks ago, I started having problems sleeping. Not stressing or worrying about anything in particular, I am tired, but I lie there completely awake. I read that they sometimes use lecithin for neurological disorders as well, ie memory. I've been taking it for my cholesterol. I am on anti depressants. Is it possible then that these two would work against each other, and give me sleepless nights? It's like I explained to my husband when he asked me what's bugging me to the degree that I can't sleep, "it's nothing specific, I just can't stop thinking, I can't get my brain to shut up for long enough that I can sleep" Not like voices in my head, just thoughts, continuous flowing thoughts. Night before last I had my first decent sleep of more than 3 hours. The only difference was that night was, I had two drinks. Yesterday I was working in the garden all day, I gave myself a slight case of heat exhaustion, but it was over quick enough, with some proper liquid intake and just cooling down and taking a break. Thing is, I was literally exhausted last night, and thought that I would have a great night's rest at least. No such luck, I finally fell asleep around 7:45 AM when everybody was waking up, I slept for about 3 hours and now I'm here, up and about, tired, but wide awake at the same time. Please help.
Can Lecithin make me insomniac?
Question posted by Fenix7777777 on 26 Nov 2010
Last updated on 9 April 2020 by BethJBreed
3 Answers
How did you go with your sleep? Sounds just like me for about the last 7 years. I used to sleep all night every night and during the day if needed. Now I’m all over the place just like you said above. I’ve tried everything to try and get to sleep. I can go for weeks back to good sleeping then all of a sudden it starts again. I bought lecithin today thinking it may help me but now I’m not going to try it.
Oh dear I. Thought lecithin was supposed to help induce sleep and help mania??? That's what I read so I bought some.
Insomnia is not a known side effect of Lecithin, but if the insomnia started after you started taking Lecithin then it could be the cause.
https://www.drugs.com/npc/lecithin.html
Perhaps you could assess by not taking Lecithin for a while and see if the insomnia gets better.
Thank you for your reply, what I did, was to start taking the Lecithin at night so as not to drink it at the same time as my other medication, and that solved the problem. I'm just not so sure if Lecithin is AS effective if you take it at night.
What also happened since then, is the pharmacy where I normally buy my medication, didn't have the dosage of the Lecithin that I used to buy, so they gave me the smaller dosages, that I take three times a day. This also seems to be fine.
So it seems that the high dosage of Lecithin, which I think is the 1200mg one, together with my other medication, was a problem. Now that I'm on the smaller dosage that I take three times a day in stead, all is fine again. If that makes any sense at all.
Whichever way, inexplicable or not, it works, so I'm happy as well as sleeping :)
I'm glad that what I have found is on here as well, for in case somebody else runs into the same problem, as I was unable to find any link between Lecithin and anti depressants/blood blood-pressure (which is what I take in the morning) medication causing insomnia, anywhere on the web. It might just help somebody else out there, that's desperate to get some sleep again :)
Once again, thank you for your help.
Fenix
Yes lecithin gets me kind of hypomanic too. I also get hypomanic when I take SSRIs or flax oil. So it could cause you insomnia.
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