Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: Wombat on May 28, 2014, 11:50:33 PM
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Well sleep doesn't want to come tonight...why is it when you really want to sleep you can't, but if there's a good movie on I miss the end ????
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Wombat x
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Me too. Sitting in the kitchen and just eaten a slice of toast and marmalade ::)
So much for cutting down. Eating in the wee small hours is never a good idea.
Sleep just won't come tonight.
Honeyb
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Ironing ? ;)
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I haven't even tried to go to sleep yet - I find if I go to bed around now then I get about three hours sleep before the half sleeping half waking sets in. I'm fine when on HRT though!
Taz x
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I hate that half-sleep, half-awake stuff - bloody exhausting!
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Does it last for ever I wonder? ???
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Hope not!
Taz x
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Why do men generally sleep so well. Hubby is snoozing two mins after his head hits the pillow. I am so jealous ::)
Honeyb
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Why do men generally sleep so well. Hubby is snoozing two mins after his head hits the pillow. I am so jealous ::)
Honeyb
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Ha ha indeed. As we speak all I can hear from my position on the sofa (after having given up on trying to sleep following around 4 unbroken hours) is huge snores reverberating through the ceiling from the bedroom upstairs! ::)
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I have come back to bed with a cuppa. Made one for hubby. He wakens up enough for two gulps and then goes back to sleep. He has always been the same. Sleep anywhere :o
Honeyb
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Have either of you tried zquil? It's very mild and I find if I take half a dose (1 T) it's enough to make me settle down to sleep well. I still wake but can go back to sleep until morning.
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Since starting HRT I now sleep like a baby! It took about a month, but I finally got there.
Also, hot flushes have disappeared and no more dryness.
Just one other thing to sort out and I have it sussed.
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We'll not only couldn't I sleep but I had NO INTERNET so no forum.....woe is me !
Here's hoping we all sleep like babies tonight, or perhaps like men ;D ;D ;D
Wombat x
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I'm the same as hotstff - on HRT my sleep is great but now that I have had to come off it I am back to around three hours a night and I can feel myself getting more down through, I am sure, pure tiredness! Most annoying.
Taz x :cuss:
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Have any of you ladies tried Melatonin capsules? they have them over the counter in the Vitamin section. Its the only thing that knocks me out like a light and I had insomnia for years. Listening to hubby snoring away and me laying there then I tried these and sleep like a log. Last night I dribbled all over my pillow and husband says you were snoring last night...hahaha I put up with him for years. ;D
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I haven't tried them but I found this information interesting as to how melatonin is switched on in our bodies by the pineal gland http://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics/melatonin-and-sleep
Thanks for reminding me Annika!
Taz x
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Hi Annika, I take 3mg Melatonin at night for about a month and my sleep has much improved. I take it about an hour before I go to bed and it helps me snore off well. I still wake up once or twice like tonight but not as bad as it was a month ago.