Menopause Discussion > Personal Experiences
Tell us how you cope with poor sleeping
Hotflush:
Just lately i have been going to bed with a DVD of yoga relaxation breathing exercises. I have snuggled down and dropped off straight away after that and it is so nice to do after a shower. If i have had bad times in the past then i stay up until my eyes are dropping and got up the same time next morning. I hate the nights that i am tossing and turning and it feels i am concious the whole night and then i fall asleep about 4 or 5 am and then i feel so grogy a few hours later.
hotflush
poppyrose:
I have been taking night time Kalms which have been quite good, however, it is the waking up bathed in perspiration which gets to me. I have routine which I have to follow, if I do not then I cannot get back to sleep.
Here is something odd and I wonder if anyone is else affected in much the same way. When I have a sweat and I perspire I have noticed that I perspire quite a lot behind my knees! now why there in particular? I do not have any excess fat there, in fact my legs are quite thinnish, I can understand it when I have perspiration under my breasts, where I do have excess tissue (that gals is trying to put it politely ;D LOL), but why behind my knees? I hate it, it really annoys me, especially if I get one while I am out and I am wearing jeans! Thinking about this I am wondering is I have some oestrogen receptors here and I am going to try applying my natural progesterone cream there to see if the uptake is any different/better!
Well, on the advice of ladyjane, I am going to try Melatonin to see if I can get a better nights rest. I have heard some years ago that Melatonin is meant to be good for treating jet lag and this is because it is thought that the natural production of Melatonin in the body is disrupted when your natural body clock goes out of sync, so taking this may help the body adjust faster to a new time zone or to the return of your normal time zone, on this premise, I wonder if this would be good to take to try and get the body back into some kind of normal sleep rhythm after our body being continually disrupted by broken sleep due to flushes/sweats or insomnia? If it is the melatonin disruption which may be the cause of prolonged insomnia in menopause, ostensibly because of sleep disruption brought on by constant disruptions in the first place, I wonder if we have at last got the egg before the chicken?
lots of Love Pops xxx :peace::peace::peace:
ladyjane:
Hi Pops
If you do decide to take melatonin, start off at a low dose eg. 1mg and do take it fairly early about 9.30pm. Make sure you are not on the computer too late and don't expose yourself to bright lights . I use a sleeping mask aswell.
Love Sandy xxx
Tricia:
can I ask how those of you get on with night time Kalms as I tried the ordinary Kalms a few months ago when I seemed to be having a really nervous time and couldn't get myself out of the house, I only ever took one because the one I took made me feel all shaky inside so much so that I decided not to take anymore, I would be interested in finding out if this is normal or if it just a one off.
Love
Tricia :)
Tricia:
sorry I meant to say, I have said in my intro that my sleeping is all to pot, I am great all night until after 5ish and then can sleep until about 2ish in the afternoon, which as I said is not really conducive for living a full life, any suggestions would be great.
Love
Tricia :)
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