[bethreeves]

I have always been a light sleeper.  It is staying asleep that can be the biggest problem.  Once I hit perimenopause at it’s worst, sleep worsened.  At the worst, some nights might have been 4 hrs of sleep and then off to work.  Stress definitely affected it.  Then I was tired but wired.  I have come a long ways since then with sleep improving.  I had to change a lot of things to kick back many, many symptoms.  Sleep was the hardest one.  Diet and lifestyle was always something I worked on so there were some things that were already in place but weren’t enough.  I added in meditation, a change in work (yes, big measures), hormone balancing.  Insomnia seems to be an issue for several in the family so there are always concerns of disease moving in.  I am always looking for ways to optimize health.

[Martin Reed]

Welcome to the forum and I am sorry to hear about your challenges with sleep. There can be no doubt that the hormonal changes associated with menopause can disrupt sleep. However, there is no need for you to live with sleep issues indefinitely because of this.

What often happens is that sleep becomes disrupted due to these changes, but the body is able to adapt. Unfortunately, because it’s easy to become concerned about sleep and begin worrying about sleep, the sleep problems do not go away once the body has adapted — and the more we worry about sleep the more difficult sleep becomes and we are soon in the vicious cycle of insomnia that I am sure you are familiar with.

Congratulations on the improvements you have made — be sure to give yourself credit where credit is due! How is your sleep these days?

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