Hi gboi,

thanks for your response!

Betaine HCL or ACV is always taken with a meal so that’s not a solution when you already wake up. In that case I used to just eat oatmeal but that’s not good to eat in the middle of the night, so I switched to celery juice or tea. In case of oatmeal I could usually fall asleep almost right away, but the sleep wasn’t ideal with my body digesting as you can imagine.

For me it started gradually since I was around 17, when I started going to the gym and eat a lot of carbs, smoking and drinking, partying etc. at first it wasn’t at night, it was just a hunger. I didn’t care as I was just a stupid teenager back then. It was slowly progressing and at college I started waking up just a little bit earlier because of the hunger, and I also could not get satisfied from almost any food. But I still didn’t to anything to manage it. And here we are today. I would just like to go back in time and beat my younger self for being such a stupid person who doesn’t care about their health. 😂

I am visiting GI doctor, the performed colonoscopy, endoscopy and also that thing that they do with pregnant women (don’t remember the name). They told me I had inflamed esophagus but that seems to be from aloe Vera, betaine and ACV. It’s also a separate issue that doesn’t cause the problem we are talking about.

So regarding stomach, colon etc they said everything was okay. All these tests I had also 3 years ago with the same results.

It’s definitely something there, it just can’t be seen on the test.

Regarding SIBO - THANK YOU SO MUCH! I looked into it, and although I almost don’t have any symptoms of that, I do believe it may be part of the problem. The things like rice, pasta, asparagus etc have been always problematic to me. I am more hungry after I eat them than before. and they all seem to be triggers for SIBO, right? For the last week I have been eating very clean - just meat, leafy greens and a small size of potatos. And things are getting better! I found out that pea protein was also causing problems. I use that in my morning oatmeal. I can sleep through the whole night usually. The sleep isn’t ideal and I still feel the hunger, but I doesn’t wake me completely.

I’m sorry about your condition, believe me I understand completely. So many nights I just cried in the middle of the night, hating my body, feeling like total shit the next day because of the lack of sleep.

I hope you get better soon. Maybe the fasting could help, if you didn’t try? I know it sounds drastic but it did help me, I just messed up afterwards 😃.