Did you just accept you get up at 3 AM & hooe to fall back asleep?

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Started around 38.
Now I have a toddler style bed time routine that starts at 7pm 😆

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Anonymous wrote:Super fun times- the wake up at 3 am with the menopause migraine

East Asian women with a lot of soy/tofu in their diet don’t have migraine.
We just have weaker 🦴

[Anonymous]

Weed gummies.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this part aging? I’m 50. I eventually fall back asleep but only after being awake fir an hour.

What age did you start this?

So annoying. But i do fall back asleep after and hour and so get a couple more hours in. Switching beds can help - so I'll go to the couch or the guest bed.

5:30 is most annoying, because almost no time to fall back asleep so that is when the question of get up and start my day or stay in bed and hope to eek out a little more sleep comes in. I usually get up.

What wakes me up at 3 or 4 or 5:30? Sometimes the cat. Sometimes a dream. Sometimes my daughter going to the bathroom. Takes so little.

I remember my parents dealing with this in their 50s. They now sleep just fine in their 70s. So suck it up for a decade or two decades and we are golden?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this part aging? I’m 50. I eventually fall back asleep but only after being awake fir an hour.

What age did you start this?

So annoying. But i do fall back asleep after and hour and so get a couple more hours in. Switching beds can help - so I'll go to the couch or the guest bed.

5:30 is most annoying, because almost no time to fall back asleep so that is when the question of get up and start my day or stay in bed and hope to eek out a little more sleep comes in. I usually get up.

What wakes me up at 3 or 4 or 5:30? Sometimes the cat. Sometimes a dream. Sometimes my daughter going to the bathroom. Takes so little.

I remember my parents dealing with this in their 50s. They now sleep just fine in their 70s. So suck it up for a decade or two decades and we are golden?

started about 54. Happens several times a week

[Anonymous]

Just wack off

[Anonymous]

estrogen patches are helping some with this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this part aging? I’m 50. I eventually fall back asleep but only after being awake fir an hour.

What age did you start this?

Have you tried insomnia?

Can't wake up at 3 if you're already up!

[Anonymous]

I started getting this when I was pregnant with my first kid and it’s continued to this day.

What’s helped me:

- get your hormones gets. Progesterone supplementation has solved 50% of it.

- No drinking.

- No caffeine after noon.

- And the biggest one is get rid of stress in your life. When I’m stressed, the cortisol and adrenaline are what keep me up all night. Literally anything stressful, cut it out of your life.

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Anonymous wrote:I started getting this when I was pregnant with my first kid and it’s continued to this day.

What’s helped me:

- get your hormones gets. Progesterone supplementation has solved 50% of it.

- No drinking.

- No caffeine after noon.

- And the biggest one is get rid of stress in your life. When I’m stressed, the cortisol and adrenaline are what keep me up all night. Literally anything stressful, cut it out of your life.

Hormones checked*. DYAC.

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Started for me around age 50. I wake up between 2 and 3 and I'm usually up for about 2 hours. It happens about half the nights. I recently started HRT in hopes that would help. So far I don't see any changes but I'm hopeful or maybe I need to increase my dose.

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That was me, and while I still occasionally get up at 3 am, I tend to fall back asleep quickly. My sleep has gotten significantly better with these 4 things:

- If you wake up at 3 am, get out of bed and start your day doing something very boring like folding laundry (no scrolling!). First, you want to train your brain that you only sleep in one stretch per night, second you do not want to reward your brain by waking up that early. This was advice I received from a physician who specializes in sleep medicine btw. It was hard to implement, because I'd be ridiculously tired and sleepy all day, but very quickly, I started sleeping longer and waking up at 4 am, then 4:30 am, then 5 am...

2- Magnesium Glycinate supplements are a game changer. Take it in the afternoon/ evening

3- I occasionally use the Rejuvia oral sleep spray. it's made of natural supplements that help your body with sleep.

4- no caffeine after 1 pm. You'd be surprised how much it can linger in your body and affect your sleep.

Best of luck to you

[Anonymous]

I think it's the screens. We're all looking at phones, laptops, and iPods all day.

[Anonymous]

Started around 40.

It helps to not look at screens before bed, take magnesium and l-theanine, and avoid caffeine and alcohol entirely.