Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Other Health Discussion => Topic started by: littleminnie on December 17, 2011, 05:06:30 PM
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I just wandered how much sleep you all get a night. I used to be able to sleep forever, but not any more. I get at best 7 1/2, at worst 5 1/2.
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I can remember when no one could get me out of bed before 11 on a Sunday. Now I'm up before the birds.
At best I get 5 hours at worst 3 1/2.
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Average 8.5.
Bette x
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Happy if i get 6 hours as at one time was getting between 1 and 2. x
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Five hours for me is about right but, then again, I have never been a sleeper. I normally wake a couple of times during the five hours. Any less than five and I am a bit grumpy! :cuss: :cuss: :cuss:
Taz x
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I go to bed about 11:30 and I am up just after 7 most days. I make a big issue about a long lie on a Saturday but rarely sleep past 8am.
I usually go back to bed on a Sat and just sort of lie and think but not sleep. In the winter I am happy to do that but in the summer I am up with the back door open and a cuppa in my hand and sitting outside if I can.
I am a spring/summer girl ;D Sorry Taz but roll on the spring.
Honeyb
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HI everyone,mines about 4 to 5 hours,,i wake up to do a wee and cant go back sleep..when i was younger i could sleep for hours..not any more.. :'(..BEV..XX
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Go to bed about 11, watch tv for a couple of hours. I am in a lot of pain, so I am lucky to get more than 3/4 hours sleep.
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my best is 7hrs but my usual is 5hrs. Always wake up during the night for the loo. Would love to do a 12hr stint like when I was a teen.
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SAN, that,s why i let my teenagers sleep at weekend,let them do it while they can..BEVxx :)
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Teenagers actually need the sleep. I read that it's to do with their hormones and growth. I use to love those lazy weekend mornings :)
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san , my daughter has delayed pubity ,she is 17 and on hormone pills,she sleeps all the time,she,s got to have a MRI SCAN on her brain after xmas,cos of constant headaches,..x
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Oh Bev that must be a worry :(
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rarely more than two hours uninterrupted and 5 hours total. hate it! (caused by OHs leg spasms mainly).
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Add it all together and I probably get about 4 or 5 hrs on average, but I don't wake up every hour like I did 18 mths' ago. I usually wake about once in the night but I seem to wake up far too early and that's me for the day, at about 5am as a rule. The bliss 7 or 8 solid hours must be...
Jenny X
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HI SAN, yes it is and the meds there giving her after the MRI,are going to make her sleep more,there hoping it,s just migraine .BEV.X
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getting up for the loo every two hours plus night sweats not a good combination. Shattered by the morning. pmt much easier, just a couple of days bad mood and that was it lol
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getting up for the loo is a pain,2 to 3 times a night..my loo is up stairs,by the time i come back down its hard to go back to sleep.. ::)..BEV x
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I can at least fall asleep quite quickly now but have to visit the loo on average twice per night. I also feel like I dream all night and feel like I have spent the night in a film every night. I sleep really well in the morning, my OH gets up at 6.30 and I go right back to sleep and can easy sleep through to 9 or 10am.
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Mrs purple.i have a small two bed house,the kids have the bedrooms,i sleep down stairs,thats why i have to trot up stairs to the loo..not good when i dont sleep much. :).BEV.xx
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I didn't get much last night, woke at 3.15 with a headache so eventually got up for a cuppa and medication, then was awake until nearly 6.00 a.m. :(
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My sleep is rubbish. I usual get to sleep not to bad. But then I wake up every hour of so and I have to pee at least 3 times. I don't sleep at all if the anxiety is high.
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drop off quite well. then thats it, i wake up about an hour later, needing the loo.(luckily we are in a bungalow) im now on patches for a twitchy bladder which helps. best nights sleep has been 4 hours full and un interrupted sleep. think if it was any longer id be in a coma.
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i woke for my 3am wee and cant go back to sleep.. :)..BEV..XX
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I usually am a very light sleeper, and before I started HRT 50 sequel patches I was waking at 2am and couldn't go back to sleep until about 6am and then had to get up about 7.30.
Now I go to sleep really easy usually by 10pm and sleep really sound until about 7-8am I don't even hear my teenager children coming in, it must be a miracle either that or the HRT .
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That's brilliant Smokey. I could never go to bed at 10 - that's my going out time - but it must be fantastic to sleep for such a long time! I found that I had to go to bed later to stop me waking up at 3 each morning so now my normal time is around 1 and I get up at 6ish but do still wake up during the night a few times. I have never slept well though so even with HRT things haven't really changed.
A hug for everyone who can't get to sleep or can't stay asleep for very long.
Taz x :hug:
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I've been having cheese and crackers or peanut butter and crackers just before I try to sleep and I cannot believe how much better I'm sleeping. Two hours in a row used to be it and then up for hours and now I'm sleeping longer and the total is way up. The food must stop the adrenalin/low sugar problems.
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Wow Trey. I like both of those so might give it a go. I sometimes have some cornflakes. Must admit I sleep better when I do that. Never occurred to me that eating before sleep helps. Usually have had it because I'm hungry.
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I don't drink after 8 but usually eat something fairly late. Since starting HRT my sleep has definitely improved. I might wake once or twice but straight back to sleep.
Bette x
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I drink up until I go to sleep. Tried cutting it out but it made no difference. Still had to get up for the loo. I have a coffee about 8pm. Tried stopping that to but I still woke up. Eating something before bed helps me get off quicker .... Sometimes ::)
Anyone sleep better after sex?
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Your question about sleeping better after sex made me laugh San. I have always found that it wakes me up and, of course, most men fall asleep straight after making love. I lay there twiddling my thumbs ::) and wondering whether to get up and do something or just lay there and pretend to be asleep. It is surprising how insulting men seem to find it when you need to get up and start something rather than falling asleep - about as insulting as a woman can find it when a man falls straight to sleep without so much as an post coital cuddle ;D
Taz x
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It relaxes me so I sleep. Maybe this is the way to go .. ;)
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What's the way to go? :-\
Taz x p.s. I have just found this - interesting facts http://scienceline.org/2006/09/ask-wenner-sex/
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Taz. I mean seeing sex as a way to help you sleep if like me it makes you drowsy.
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It always "wakes me up" too. That's why I prefer morning or better still, daytime sex. Night-time usually means that I sleep worse!
Bette x
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Taz that was a very very interesting fact ::) ::) ::) so much so that I have saved the pic to "My Pictures" ;D ;D ;D
silverlady x
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:rofl:
Bette x
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Elifie
What are the patches called that you are taking for your twictey bladder as this geting up to the toilet is really getting me down, this week it has been at an all time high i am getting up every 2 hours and hardly having any sleep. Been doctors but nothing was given me have decided i am going again this week and this time i'm not leaving untill something is done, i have had it for years but its so bad the last 6 months or so. I'm seriously thinking that i need to take something not to have periods as its all to do with PMT which is far worse now that i am 50.
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there was an article in one of the papers yesterday by some researchers saying that if you don't get enough sleep, you put on weight.
Oh JOY, another reason to pile on the pounds >:(
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I have always been a light sleeper. Reckon I am doing well if I get six hours but never uninterrupted due, like others, to the bloomin' bladder. Go to bed around 10pm and wake about 2 or 3am for a pee. Then have a job to get back to sleep.Just about manage it before Andrew gets up to make a cuppa. Don't mind, and can cope well without sleep but am envious of those who get a solid seven or eight hours a night.
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Pauline if we were neighbours we could have a chat ;D that's exactly the times I'm awake
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We could - if I knew what it was!!!!
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and you don't need to wear a space suit. You can do it in you PJ's ;)
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and you don't need to wear a space suit. You can do it in you PJ's ;)
And if you're suffering endless hot flushes of an evening,as I do. .. . . .you can do it in your Birthday Suit . . . .as I sometimes do!! ;D
xx
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:) :) :)
I used to wander about starkers during the night if I was feeling a bit hot, until I nearly got caught out by our son! :o Never again! Now he's left I still don't do it, don't know who I'm expecting to bump into. ::)
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I can have 7 hours sleep and feel great next day, ready to start the day, not tired, and other times I can have 7 hours and feel half dead the next day.
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Hello ladies.
I understand that quality of sleep is just as important as quantity.
littleminnie - it may be that you are more restless some nights than others and this means you don't spend enough time in the most refreshing phases of sleep.
My sleep has never been dramatically affected by the menopause but some days ( like today) I feel dreadfully tired even though I believe I slept well.
Hopefully your day improves and take care.
K.