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Tell us how you cope with poor sleeping
juju:
Hi Sue and I can empathize!I am on HRT and it has improved my sleep.I had got to the stage where sometimes in the middle of the night I felt like suicide as I was so tired and couldn't sleep.The second my head touched the pillow the sweats would start.Didn't matter how tired I was.It amazed me that I could sit on the bed watching tv or lie in bed watching tv but as soon as I attempted sleep the sweats started.Then when I did sleep I would be woken up by them.HRT has stopped most of the sweats and I don't normally have to much of a problem going to sleep,but I do have fazes of waking about 2 hours after I've fallen asleep and lying there convinced it must be time to get up..wide awake..then putting the light on and realising its 1.30am or whatever :(!It only seems to last for a few days and then I get probably four or five hours undisturbed sleep.Hopefully you'll start sleeping better soon.
suzieQ:
HI JuJu thanks for your very encouraging post. How long were you on it before the sleep began to improve? It is good to hear from someone who is getting better - I need to hear that sort of thing as I feel so sorry for my self just now - I feel sometimes just so desperate and like my life is totally pants! Will be taking a pill tonight so i know i'll sleep! But after that its back to the long hard uphill battle to get back to normal .... lov eto you thanks for your help x
juju:
Hi Sue...I cant remember :-\...but I seem to think within a month everything had improved.I think I noticed lessening of flushes first and a general improvement in the way i was feeling.My moods had become quite awful and I was a nightmare to live with.Everything seemed to step down a bit quite quickly and I lost the desperate feeling I had.Dont know if it makes sense to you.I had resisted hrt for about three years trying everything I could buy which just ended up costing me loads.Then the gp put me on clonidine but that had no effect.By the time I tried hrt I was truly desperate and quite honestly would have taken arsenic if I thought it would help.I hope it works for you.Julie xxxx
suzieQ:
HI Juju - thank you for yor helpful reply - I have been back on Hrt for over 3 weeks now and not seen any real improvement yet but the problem has been bad for over 2 months now. I keep on hoping that it will slowly improve and i'll be able to fall off to sleep easier and sleep for longer. It does make you very anxious - every night feels like a battle - but I know that only makes it worse and the answer is to try to be relaxed about what happens. At least the flushes and sweats are under control now and I feel generally a lot better, calmer and happier - if only the sleep would come right I would be so happy! I went to Amsterdam with my husband at the weekend for a little break and took a Stillnoct sleeping tablet on the 3 nights we were away and slept SOOO well ....but its back to tryiing to sleep without that aid tonight so think pf me! love Sue
suzieQ:
Just a quick update - it was hard to sleep last night after a few nights on sleeping pills ( maybe took til 1 am from lying down at 11pm) but I did get some sleep eventually, but very light and patchy sleep, waking up many times, and being awake for a while each time. Don't feel rested this morning, but maybe I slept more that I realised! My husband said I was asleep every time he woke and checked - its just the lack of deep restful sleep I miss....does anyone else find that? I am just praying so hard this HRT will help the sleep ( been on it nearly a month now) as it has the other symptoms. When I first went onto HRT 4 years ago it helped the sleep quite quickly - within a month and it was very noticably improved over about a week.....Sue
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