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[terriw]

I've used the Paul McKenna "I can make you sleep" hypnosis cd. It works every time I use it but just one night without it and I'm back to normal. I know it off by heart now.

[dinkydo]

I havent been on here recently as I had been feeling ok since my G.P told me approx 6 months ago my blood test indicated I was menopausal but lately I have been having terrible night sweats.  It is so weird as even though I dont feel particularly hot I wake up covered in sweat during the night and have difficulty getting back to sleep.  Therefore I end up spending my day feeling exhausted and not particularly looking forward to the following nights sleep.  I never seem to get a full nights sleep any longer and hate this whole sweating milarky.  I would really like to try some natural remedies....any ideas anyone? 

[Taz2]

Sorry you are now experiencing these sweats Dinkydoo. I am on HRT, which was the only thing that stopped mine, but I am sure someone else will be along soon. Reading the posts though it does seem as if any relief is short-lived. Have they started in the day yet? 

Taz x

[dinkydo]

Ohhh no not the day time as well!!! Help...night time is bad enough but thankfully none during the day 

[Taz2]

Sorry Dinkydo    I had night sweats for around a year before the day flushes kicked in and then the day flushes turned to sweats, every 20 minutes, dripping from top of head to soles of feet. Not pleasant! I put up with it for way too long and had got very down before trying HRT and the sweats stopped within 24 hours. Bliss! Sleep! I know though that eventually I will have to come off HRT and will more than likely be back where I started. Still, that's another day!

Taz x

[bluemoon]

The natural progesterone Utrogestan causes sleepiness which is why you are advised to take it just before you go to bed. My sister in law has always had awful problems sleeping but since she started on this (in addition to her oestrogen only patch) she has slept like a babe and been able to come off all her other meds. I dont know why more people are not being offered this; i guess it is probably because it is more expensive.

[paulairo]

I havent slept properly for the past 11years since I was diagnosed with the addisons, staeroids are renowned for interferring with sleep patterns, was prescribed sleeping tablets but they made no difference, thn lo and behold I have to go through the menopause, If I dont wake up with a hot flush, I have a pain somewhere or other, usually my back, knee, or recently my wrist, I do all the right things, I exercise in the  mornings, no caffeine after lunch time,nice bath , reading before sleep, but still tossing and turning.

[Bckquine]

I rarely have a night of unbroken sleep.  Although I am lucky in that I do not actually get the night sweats, I do still have hot flushes so spend most of the night alternating between being tucked under the duvet, then throwing it off again because I am too hot and can't breath.  I sometimes have to get up and open the window (regardless of the weather), but then my partner complains when he has to get up to a cold bedroom!  My bladder also seems to go into overdrive during the night and I find myself needing to pee maybe 2/3 times during the night regardless of how much I have/have'nt had to drink prior to going to bed ( and they will be big, big pee's, not just little dribbles).  If I am having a really bad night I just give up, get up and come through to the computer and play some games, come on here, or just do a bit of surfing for an hour or so then go back to bed and try again.  I really envy anyone who can go to bed and sleep the whole night without any disturbance and on the rare occasion it has happened, I am like an excited bairn, telling my partner how ' I stayed in my bed all night and slept, woohoo'.  Give the girl a gold star    Is it any wonder most of us feel permanently exhausted all the time???

[sticky]

I read until my eyes can't focus and i am dropping the book, there is no point in just lying there waiting for sleep, it just makes me feel more aggitated, I will have a few nights with only a couple of hours sleep then I will have a really good night of about 6- 7 hours.

[shirleyp]

Bckquin, I feel very much like you, I have always had to get up once a night to the loo but now it's often 3 times and altho I don't get sweats when I get back to bed I do come over all warm for 5 -10 mins. The same thing happens when I get up in the morning, before the kettle has boiled I am flinging the back door open. This is really unusual for me because I am usually a cold person, still have to put socks on at bedtime, but flinging open doors and windows or the bedcovers when I have a cup of tea in bed, even my husband has noticed!

[Bckquine]

It sure is not much fun shirleyp, but on the odd occasion when I do sleep through it is pretty special, lol!

[Cupcake]

I've tried pretty most things, and they might work for a couple of nights, but no more than that.My sleep did improve after 6 months off work, followed by retirement, but I'm sure it was the fact it didn't matter if I tossed and turned as I didn't have to get up for work.
I'm sure stress has alot to do with it. Since my son told me he was splitting up with his wife last week, I'm back to 3 hours, and the most awful nightmares.

[Donna1]

I'm currently very anaemic, so insomnia is less of a problem than it used to be, however if if I do have a couple of nights sleeplessness, I take Nytol, which my GP reccommended a few years ago when I wasnt sleepong well because of other problems.

I usually find that taking it once breaks the cycle of sleepnessness, and I will have a really good nights sleep. I may wake with very soggy pillows from night sweats, but at least I feel refreshed. It isnt reccommneded for continuous use, so I try to avoid using it too much - normally no more than 3-4 times monthly.

[sandie w]

I have been on my latest HRT treatment for just over 2 months now. (this is my fourth try).

All was ok till about 2 weeks ago when i started waking up 4 to 5 times during the night again. needless to say feeling sooooooooooooooo tired all the time. sometimes when i wake i get a hot flush other times i just wake. I can put up with the hot flushed but not the lack of sleep.   Maybee it's time to try yet another HRT.......

Sandie

[lindka]

I try to go to bed by 11pm if at all possible, prefer earlier nights myself but sometimes OH moans that I am off upstairs 'too early' so I stretch it out a little longer.

I usually wake around 4.30-5.30am - come downstairs, get a drink - sometimes something sugary to make me sleepy and check the internet for a bit.

When I then go back to bed I find (like this morning) that I lie there thinking I will have to get up in an hour, 3/4 an hour, half an hour etc. so I'm fighting myself to stay awake!

What a contradiction eh?

So I manage to stay awake then once I have the house to myself, if I can, I go back for a nap for a couple of hours - or whatever I can manage within the daily routine.  Then, like yesterday, I sometimes wake up feeling totally disorientated and can't get used to the time - cussing myself for 'wasting' a couple of hours or whatever.

So, it's a vicious circle really - you wake, you sleep - try and go with what your body wants to do - eventually it will sort itself out.