Why are you awake?

[LostittoBostik]

I'll go first. THE RAIN

Our bedroom is an attic conversation and my said of the bed is partly underneath a skylight. It's like trying to sleep inside a drum!

Peri means a 3-4am wake up every night. But I'm also seething about the attitude of my 19 year old dd who has been rude as hell for weeks for no reason anyone can think of. I've tried everything with her (seeing if there is anything wrong/being kind/ignoring her snark/pointing out quietly that it's not acceptable). I'm now at the point of very nearly losing it with her and telling her to do one if she carries on. It's making life miserable for the rest of us-as it did when she was a 14 year old and doing it-but at 19 there is far less excuse!

I am here again. no idea what I bother goiing to bed some nights.

Yep here again, is it possible to live on 4 hours of sleep a night 😩🤔

I'm thinking maybe I'm Peri menopause too. I had my baby last year, I'm 40 this January and I've started having hot flushes and waking up at 3/4am every night. Also my ears are so itchy which is a symptom of PM.

Mine started when I was 40 @MosaDiCello with those symptoms-this it died down for a year or so, and now at 44 I get them intermittently, so I'll have months of hot flushes then noting at all for months. No rhyme or reason to it. But nearly always this bloody insomnia!

My bp is always very high on a first reading (white coat high pressure) and then falls to normal on subsequent readings. It’s worth having a kit at home for checking.

Hope you can get a GP appt - and it’s nothing to worry about. Fingers crossed 🌺

That sounds tough. My 15-year old can be as rude as hell but it normally means she’s unhappy in herself about something. She can make the whole household miserable though! Was your teen ok between 14 and 19?
Hope you can to the bottom of it. I’m sure you’ll look back in a few years with a sigh of relief that the teens are well and truly over - and you have your lovely daughter back!

She was fine from 15 to now. She has made some odd life choices recently (not to go travelling, deferring uni for a year, starting work at a job she know wills only be for a year which is well paid but dull) all largely as she doesn't want to leave her boyfriend behind and against everyone's (gentle)advice. Think she is seeing her pals leave to do their new and exciting things and is starting to regret her choices in some ways. All a learning experience for her and nothing that is undoable. But she has always struggled with admitting she is wrong in any circumstances so she will never ever say that! And it comes out on this horrible stroppy behaviour instead which is not easy to live with -there are 5 other people in this house and she needs to lean in a bit at this point-all part of being an adult-sad but true.

36 weeks pregnant and the baby is using my ribs as a punch bag. Plus I had the rsv and flu jab in the same arm earlier. Getting over a cold too!

@plummypears

Thank you for that I'm going to get it rechecked today and will definitely get one, it's just unusual as I normally have either slightly low or just fine BP.

perfectly possible yes. I have been doing it for years now !

Peri menopause, work stress, etc
Try to flip it to a positive: have had a lovely cup of tea in my cosy bed listening to the rain outside (ignoring the fact I have to go out in it soon!)

My alarm is always set for 5am as I always think I'll go to the gym early like I used to, only it's not working since perimenopause, afternoon seems to work better but then I have meetings so can't always go.

The cats are now wide awake, one whining to go out and the other doing laps of the place.