I wake up every two hours. What do you take to sleep?

[Anonymous]

I have the same issue with melatonin; fall asleep quickly and then wake up at 2 am.

Klonopin helps me but I use it only in really dire circumstances. Progesterone actually made me pee more (which is a side effect, apparently) and didn't help me. Am considering THC gummies. What brand do people like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Magnesium glycinate. Two capsules at bedtime.

+1

[Anonymous]

If you don't drink alcohol at night, try 2 Tylenol, it has an anti-anxiety effect on many people (works for me but not DH). I usually fall asleep after 15 minutes but keep them at my bedside, loose so I can take without turning the light on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HRT

Not OP here: I’ve been on HRT for 2 months now and am still waking up a lot. I thought it would be life changing but I am very disappointed

What dose are you on? The 100mg progesterone wasn’t enough to help my sleep. I didn’t get a benefit until I increased to 200mg about 3 months in. Now my sleep is great.

I agree with this. I actually started on the 200 (continuous) and decided I was too sleepy and I’m trying the 100 (continuous). My doc explained that the 200 is for women that take it cyclically, on 2 weeks and off 2 weeks and the 100 was for continuous use no breaks. But she gave me the 200 and told me I could see whether cyclical or continuous worked best for me. I wanted to take it cyclically more like my body is used to / trying to (I’m Peri not meno). But I couldn’t sleep during the off weeks. Doc would let me stay on the 200 but I want to try 100 for now. I can sleep fine on 100 but the 200 really helped. The estrogen may help but it’s the progesterone I notice helping.

[Anonymous]

People, the peeing isn't from a cup of tea. No need to dehydrate to sleep. The peeing is the symptom of waking up. If you can stay asleep your bladder is fine. It's the waking up that then prompts you to pee. Remember the middle of the night fire drills in your dorm? Then everyone had to pee?

[Anonymous]

I've been on HRT for 3 years now, take magnesium and ashwaganda and my sleep is still terrible. sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People, the peeing isn't from a cup of tea. No need to dehydrate to sleep. The peeing is the symptom of waking up. If you can stay asleep your bladder is fine. It's the waking up that then prompts you to pee. Remember the middle of the night fire drills in your dorm? Then everyone had to pee?

Agree. I thought I had some impact from vaginal birth of my daughter making me pee. Thought waking up to pee was just getting older and it probably is a bit.

But now that I can sleep deeply again (on hrt), the peeing isnt a problem. I drink water at night. I’d rather be hydrated. I’m not scared of it. If I happen to drink too much water, ok maybe I’ll get up to pee but I’ll be back asleep in seconds, not triggered to be awake for hours. And I was getting crazy insomnia before hrt (worse and worse as time passed) - the person I was then would not believe me now.

[Anonymous]

HRT — the combo patch. I had a lot of trouble sleeping post menopause and this solved the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HRT

Not OP here: I’ve been on HRT for 2 months now and am still waking up a lot. I thought it would be life changing but I am very disappointed

What dose are you on? The 100mg progesterone wasn’t enough to help my sleep. I didn’t get a benefit until I increased to 200mg about 3 months in. Now my sleep is great.

I agree with this. I actually started on the 200 (continuous) and decided I was too sleepy and I’m trying the 100 (continuous). My doc explained that the 200 is for women that take it cyclically, on 2 weeks and off 2 weeks and the 100 was for continuous use no breaks. But she gave me the 200 and told me I could see whether cyclical or continuous worked best for me. I wanted to take it cyclically more like my body is used to / trying to (I’m Peri not meno). But I couldn’t sleep during the off weeks. Doc would let me stay on the 200 but I want to try 100 for now. I can sleep fine on 100 but the 200 really helped. The estrogen may help but it’s the progesterone I notice helping.

Oh and I would add this: I do all lifestyle things in addition to HRT (no alc, no sugar, exercise etc) AND when Peri hit me like a ton of bricks several years ago and I wasn’t aware at all how bad it is, I realized I had to step back from a high paying, high stress job even though I’m the lifetime breadwinner for my family by a long shot and it really impacts my family (including kids). I was on the 200 during the job change I went through. Right now life’s pretty stable, but if I had big events with kids, aging parents, spouse, work, I’d go back on the 200 as needed bc the stress and mind rumination would go up and I’d probably need more help sleeping.

[Anonymous]

An edible

[Anonymous]

Magnesium glycinate, theanine, ashwagandha. I take morning and evening walks. My sleep still sucks sometimes, but it’s better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Benadryl, but I probably shouldn’t take it as often as I do either!

No, you should not. Look up the recent study about that.

[Anonymous]

I use a magnesium with ashwaganda that I get at Whole Foods (and their sister site Amazon ). It helps but recently I have been groggy in the mornings. I am going to try taking it earlier in the evening. If I remember (brain foooooooog).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HRT

Not OP here: I’ve been on HRT for 2 months now and am still waking up a lot. I thought it would be life changing but I am very disappointed

it took five months for mine to totally kick in.

I still take 2-3 mg of THC before bed, though.

[Anonymous]

Magnesium gummies

Trazadone

Lunesta

Zero alcohol