I keep waking at 3-4 am and not able to sleep any more !

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I'm so frustrated !

I do go to bed early some nights. Which may be how this started- I mean like 9 pm.

But even when I go to bed at 11 pm- I still wake up at 3 am and I'm so awake. So ultimately I'm just do tired during the day.

I've been having a very stressful time recently, maybe that's why.

Has anyone had this ? What can I do ?

Quite possibly stress related, but it happened to me during peri-menopause. (HRT helped)

Ditto

Yes, menopause? Both my boss and I are 4am wakers currently. I've always been an excellent sleeper until the last few months.

This was me before HRT.

Very usual sign of perimenopause...

How old are you?

That happened to me during peri-menopause. HRT really helped

I'm 38.

To be honest it's something I've always suffered from on and off. I guess the difference is that before I had kids, I could just go to sleep again. Even if I was up until 5-6. But now I have to get up to get my kids up. So by evening I am so tried. I've been up since 3 am today and right now my eyes are falling shut. It feels like it's midnight or something.

It was gone for a while because I had babies and toddlers and so I didn't notice, because I was awake all the time anyway. Now I'm sleeping again because they're not awake as much during the night, it's starting to happen again.

I never fixed it before. I don't know why this happens.

I'm like that and just work with it.
I go to bed early and enjoy the quiet time to get up with stuff when I get up early.

This is exactly me, and it's driving me crazy. I'm so sick of being awake when everyone else is sleeping and then feeling like crap all day, you have my sympathy x

It’s a common time to get a spike in cortisol so if you are stressed that is probably contributing. For me it’s been my worst peri symptom and HRT has helped particularly in the progesterone half of the cycle. Magnesium supplements can help - I got on best with a foot rub that also has lavender oil (probably placebo effect but I’ll take any help I can get!)

Yep, typical peri symptom I’m afraid

Had to double take as I read '4am wankers'🤣

I do this, I've given up fighting it. I've always been a lark, but since I hit peri it's got worse. I'm fortune that I'm self employed so my work hours are completely flexible.
I wake up between 3 and 4, working by 4.30/5, bed by 8.30/9.

Might help her get back to sleep..

I find it’s only if I’ve been drinking, stressed or sick.

I put a gentle sounding podcast on when that happens. It generally works.

Try a magnesium supplement. It worked wonders for me

Magnesium supplements, sleep podcasts, also try running through alphabet in head thinking of different fruits etc A for apple..stops the mind from racing/ overthinking
Also look into breathing exercises

Well that's one way to get rid of the cortisol spike 😂

Another vote for magnesium here

Melatonin. I take 3mg most nights and certainly know if I forget it for a few nights. I take magnesium too but have always taken it with melatonin and never on its own.

Happens to me when I am completely stressed out and drained - the irony being that it is when I need the most rest! Second the suggestion of a podcast, if I got up at that time I would be no use to anyone during the day and I’m an owl and not a lark by nature anyway. If you close your eyes and engage with the podcast then even if you aren’t asleep, your body is resting at one level if that makes sense. Sorry you’re going through this, it’s the pits, I know.

I had this to an unbearable extent when I was pregnant.

I basically did not sleep at all. Maybe 3 -4 hours a night.

I felt like I slept more when I had newborns !

And now it's back with a vengeance.

I have tried magnesium. On its own it didn't help.

The only time I slept really well, without waking up- was when I was on a very rigid supplement regime that a doctor gave me. I took so many supplements, including magnesium- and after 2 weeks on that, I slept through the whole night.

I should go back there and get those supplements again. It was annoying, I took a lot of them a day, but it really did help.

He did a very detailed blood test before and then prescribed magnesium, zinc and so many others that I was low on.

Often it's simply the drop in temperature