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[Jules114]

When I started on HRT 3 weeks ago I swapped hot flushes for vivid weird dreams which kept me awake just as much and headaches during the day, I have now decided to stop taking the  HRT as I only wanted to take it if it allowed me to get a good nights sleep but this hasn't happened

[Taz2]

Jules I think that you have not given your body a chance to adapt to the HRT. It is known that you have to try it for at least three months to find out if it will work or not.

Taz x 

[charlie]

Hi taz,

I just lie there in silence ( listening to hubby snoring) if i get up in the early hours my dog  thinks its time to get up and wakes the whole bloody house barking!!!!!!!!

I can understand the saying "everything looks brighter in the morning" as when it starts to get bright things really do look better!

charlie x x

[Taz2]

Watching those digital numbers clicking round on the clock is the worst part I think..... once it gets to 5.30 I know that it is only half an hour before it is a civilised time to get up!!

Sorry about your dog Charlie -I can see that you probably avoid getting up and so lay there going round and round in circles in your head and things always seem so much more worrying under those circumstances.

Hope you are sleeping tonight!

Love Taz  x

[useless]

glad i am in such good company my body clock all over the place

[Taz2]

My whole body is all over the place - let alone my bodyclock!!!! 

[gina123]

hi all
i sleep well at first ..but seem to toss and turn all night..under the duvet on top of the duvet...so never get a sound sleep
gina

[lolly]

I need to be up at 5:30 , I Try to go to bed around 10. I feel tired when I go to bed and manage to go straight to sleep most of the time but then BING clock strikes 1:30 - 2:00 and I am clock watching, Tossing and Turning Throwing the covers off putting them back on punching the pillows, Turning the pillows over fluffing them up clock watching this continues till 5:30. I then go to the bathroom and notice my eyes hanging out of my head blood shot and I feel knackered. I can not remember the last time I slept all night

[Libby]

The only way round my insomnia was to go to my GP.  I reached the stage where i was beginning to cease to function, i really thought i was going to run out of steam completely.  The GP prescribed Dosulepin 75mg, one tablet at bedtime.  The tablets are antidepressants but also work as relaxants.  I still suffer from sleep problems, but they have helped and i do get a few hours sleep at night instead of none at all.  My aim is to come off the tablets as soon as i feel like i am functioning properly again.  I don't suffer from depression and don't want to risk becoming addicted to any medication.  The Dosulepin are helping me as a stop gap.

[Annika]

I suffered from this for years and thought that I had to put up with it. In fact when I went to stay with my mum on a visit she mentioned how early I got up and that I was up during the night. I usually got about 2 hours if that each night. Then someone suggested Valerian, a herb from the Health Food store. So I take two now half an hour before bedtime and it works great for me. I now go to bed at ten and wake at 5.30 each morning. It can be so frustrating listening to your spouse sleeping like a baby next to you and laying awake for hours on end.  Hope this might help someone else.

[Elyse]

I'm a problem sleeper anyway, so I can't blame this entirely on the menopause.  I have the sort of OH who says 'I don't think I'll get to sleep tonight...zzzzzzzzzzz'.
I take 5HTP capsules on an irregular basis or they lose their effectiveness, they can have a good knock out effect at first, though they are harmless.
Valerian can help. 
Dr Stuarts Tranquility tea is nice and can help a little bit.   
Passiflora - tea or capsules or tablets - good.
A breathing exercise I read about, will post back when I remember the details to explain.
If your OH or outside noise is a problem, earplugs can really help, I reccomend Boots Foam plugs, you can re-use them (wash them) they mould to the inside of your ear.
In desperation, only if discomfort is a problem, I take two co-codamol tablets with a magnesium tablet and a calcium tablet. 

I have in the past, before any meno symptoms, taken sleeping tablets, they do help if you really have tried everything else.  But they have to be kept to absolute short term only.

[molly]

I started taking Menopace a month ago i know there is a forum for Menopace but i cant find it . I never slept for a long time due to night sweats. Not sleeping hurts your body and mind. But since ive been on menopace its amazing for the past 2 weeks ive been sleeping so well. I still have the odd sweat at night but nothing compared to what i had. I would recomend these pills to anyone. 

[Taz2]

Hi Molly welcome to the forum 

Thanks for such a positive post about Menopace - I am on HRT as I didn't get relief from anything else but it is good to know that for some people it works.

Have a good look around the site - there is lots of info and support on here. It is a little quiet at the moment as a couple of the members have left recently but stick around - things will pick up again soon.

Taz x 

[juliamd]

Hi Molly
 
Welcome from me too. Ive been suffering from night sweats and poor sleep for ages now, so know how you've been feeling, and good to hear you are getting good results, what is in menopace as i already take a good multivitamen, St johns wort and ginseng, a bit wary of adding anything else into the meltingpot....let alone the expense!
love poppinsxx

[annie-mac]

Hi there

My worry is that for the last 3 years since having menopause symptoms I have been unable to sleep.  I then tried Nytol (or the equivalent!) and I have to take them every night now or I don't sleep at all.  I'm starting to get quite worried about this because I'm scared that I'm addicted.  I just pulled all the muscles in my shoulder at work and hurt my back so now I'm on extra strength co-codamol too.  I really just want to have a restful nights sleep without taking anything but I have tried and tried and I just can't sleep without help of some sort.

Can anybody give me some advice because I feel awful and dozy the next day which isn't good.  I don't think that helps with my feeling of "vagueness" through the menopause symptoms. 

I'd be really grateful if anybody has been in a position like this and got through the other side.  I just want to have a good nights sleep without any help from chemicals etc.,

Thank you in advance.
Annie x