Have you ever had this experience: tossing and turning when falling asleep, and can't fall asleep; feeling weak all over after waking up, feeling that you didn't sleep well, or going to bed on time, but always waking up early, feeling low spirits during the day, but can't settle down at night.
These seemingly ordinary troubles may hide small signals of your liver health behind them. You may think that liver problems are related to sleep? Are you too worried?
I have seen many patients with liver disease in the hospital for many years. Any unhealthy lifestyle, eating habits, or emotional problems may put pressure on the liver, and liver discomfort often sends us warning signals through sleep.
Therefore, I would like to share with you these 4 common symptoms of sleeping when the liver is not in good condition. They may quietly tell you that it is time to pay attention to your liver. If you find that you have one of these symptoms, don't ignore it, check it as soon as possible to avoid worsening health problems.
Suddenly waking up while sleeping
Many patients have mentioned to me that they wake up in the early hours of the morning every night, looking at the ceiling in a daze, and they don’t know why they can’t fall asleep.
Especially during those nights when they should have fallen asleep peacefully, they are always pulled out of their dreams by some unknown force and find it difficult to continue sleeping.
A careful patient once told me that he has been in this state for several years. Whenever he finds himself waking up in the middle of the night, he feels irritated and uneasy unconsciously.
After careful examination and evaluation, it was finally found that his liver function had some abnormalities, especially the liver enzyme index was significantly higher.
This is actually because the detoxification and excretion work of the liver at night has a very large impact on our sleep rhythm. When the liver is at the peak of metabolic activity, the body's energy regulation, toxin metabolism, and even hormone secretion will be affected.
When liver function is impaired, these processes are disturbed, which not only causes physical fatigue, but also often makes people unable to fall asleep in the middle of the night. This abnormal performance during sleep is often an early signal of liver unhealthiness.
Night sweats
The symptom I want to mention is night sweats, which are often ignored, but can also reflect the health of the liver. One patient is a middle-aged man who is busy and stressed at work for a long time, and occasionally drinks with colleagues.
Recently, he found that he began to sweat every night, and sometimes even got soaked, especially in the early hours of the morning, when sweating was most obvious.
I conducted a detailed examination of the patient's body and found that there were obvious problems with his liver function, especially high cholesterol levels, and the liver's metabolic function was significantly reduced. The symptom of night sweats is a reaction to the liver's overload.
The liver is the main organ for detoxification. When its metabolic capacity decreases, toxins and waste in the body cannot be effectively excreted, and toxins may be excreted through the skin, causing night sweats.
This is not only a natural reaction of the body, but also a manifestation of the liver's inability to effectively process waste, especially when the liver can no longer repair itself, the body will use other ways to detoxify, and this way is often through sweat glands.
The patient's night sweating is actually a symptom caused by excessive liver pressure and inability to metabolize normally. By adjusting his lifestyle, especially reducing the burden on the liver, his night sweating problem has gradually been alleviated and his sleep quality has also improved significantly.
Easy to fall into anxiety and irritability
People who have been engaged in high-pressure work for a long time, or those who face life and family problems, often show anxiety, especially before going to bed, often accompanied by restlessness, anxiety and irritability.
Some people will toss and turn before going to sleep, and even feel an inexplicable irritability. If this situation lasts for a long time, it will often become a "signal light" for liver problems.
In clinical practice, I have met a patient who often cannot fall asleep at night. She becomes anxious before going to bed every night, and even cannot relax all night. After further examination, it was found that her liver function is seriously poor, especially the liver's detoxification function has declined significantly.
The liver is the largest detoxification organ in the human body, and it is also directly involved in hormone regulation in the body. When the liver's detoxification function weakens, toxins in the body cannot be removed in time, and hormone metabolism is also affected, emotional instability begins to manifest in sleep.
Anxiety, irritability, and even depression, these psychological symptoms may be closely related to the unhealthy state of the liver. Liver damage not only affects our physical health, but also has a profound impact on psychology.
Especially under high pressure, liver damage will aggravate this emotional instability, resulting in an inability to relax before going to bed, and even affecting the quality of sleep throughout the night.
Frequent urination at night, yellowish urine
Some people always feel heavy in the lower abdomen when they wake up in the morning, especially frequent urination at night, or even go to the toilet so many times that they feel irritable. What's more serious is that the color of the urine has also become yellowish, and even some turbidity has appeared.
Many people do not pay attention to this change, and even think that they just drink too little water or have kidney problems. In fact, this symptom may also be a manifestation of liver problems. When the detoxification and metabolic functions of the liver are damaged.
If toxins and wastes in the body cannot be excreted in time, they will often be excreted in the form of urine. When liver health is damaged, changes in urine color and frequent urination may be a reflection of the body trying to remove toxins from the body.
There was once a patient whose sleep quality was very poor. He could not sleep well every night because of frequent urination, especially at night when urination was particularly frequent and the urine color became abnormally yellow. He did not realize the seriousness of the problem.
It was not until he developed symptoms such as edema and jaundice that he was sent to the hospital for examination. The final results showed that his liver had obvious inflammation and metabolic problems, which caused the toxins in the body to be unable to be effectively excreted, and finally continuously excreted through urine.
This process not only seriously affected his sleep quality, but also had a profound impact on other systems of the body.
Sleep problems may be just the tip of the iceberg of liver health. Many symptoms and discomforts often become warning signs of unhealthy liver without knowing it.
Whether it is easy to wake up at night, anxiety before going to bed, excessive sweating at night, or frequent urination at night with yellowish urine, these abnormal sleep manifestations may be a precursor to liver problems.
Therefore, we cannot simply attribute these symptoms to life stress or fatigue. We should pay attention to our body signals, adjust our lifestyle in time, maintain healthy eating habits, and have regular liver examinations, which are all effective protections for liver health.
Tips:The above content is for reference only. If you feel unwell, please consult a professional doctor in time.
