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[Cheryl53!!!!]

I’ve had enough this insomnia is crippling me. What are your experiences starting hrt for sleep? Give me some hope 

[sheila99]

It cured mine though I still wake more easily than I used to.

[Dotty]

It cured my insomnia but took a while.

[Minnie Mouse]

Within 2 days, my sleep was 90% back to normal.
The sleep disturbance was my no.1 symptom, waking up every hour feeling crazed.

[JessWare]

I'm sleeping better now I've moved my utrogestan to the morning. It was keeping me wired when I took it before bedtime.

[Cheryl53!!!!]

It cured mine though I still wake more easily than I used to.

how long did it take to work?

[karab]

My sleep got better within two days after starting progesterone (200 mg nightly, which is more than many others), and then even better all the time with estrogen as I increased it.  I probably reached the best sleep on my original regime after about 6 months because I could only increase estrogen a little bit at a time (my clinician wanted me to wait a month or two each time to increase my dose). 

Looking back, I would have asked to raise my dose of estrogen every month if sleep wasn't good.  My clinician encouraged me to keep increasing estrogen until I got back to sleep comparable to before perimenopause....I don't know if I am fully there, but it went from hellish to okay in a few months, pretty good in 6.  I am on a higher dose of estrogen, though, so it may take less time to get up to the ideal dose for others.  My sleep also wasn't good on the 100 mg of progesterone many take; I had to take 200 mg nightly -- with food -- to sleep well.

Kara

[sheila99]

It cured mine though I still wake more easily than I used to.

how long did it take to work?

3 months but my insomnia was tied up with anxiety and I think they made each other worse. I'm another who finds utrogestan makes sleep worse.