I've always been great at sleeping. If sleeping was an Olympic sport I would win gold medals. I started suffering with peri menopausal symptoms at the start of the year and ended up on Amitriptyline. My physical symtpoms were only slight, but it was the anxiety/low mood which was so horrible. The amitriptyline worked but I felt quite groggy. Obviously, my sleeping was deeper and in the mornings it was quite hard to break out of the sleepy dozey feeling it gives you.
About 8 weeks ago, I decided I had enough of feeling so groggy so stopped taking the Amitriptyline over night. Was worried about side effects but I have been absolutely fine. No anxiety or low mood, except for a day or two around AF arriving.
But I HAVE noticed that the quality of my sleep is very different. I no longer seem to get really sleepy, as I used to. I still go to bed at the same time, and I do fall asleep as normal. But I can only seem to manage 6-6.5 hours a night. And I don't wake up slowly feeling nicely drowsy. I seem to wake up instantly and just don't feel I have had good quality sleep.
Last night I barely slept 45 mins all night, because AF was due and this seems to have become a bit of a pattern over the last few months when AF is due.
So, I can't say I have insomnia (except when AF is due) but the quality of my sleep is very diluted and feels quite 'thin' if that makes sense, and not satisfying.
Does anyone suffer with the same weird sort of sleep?