5.30am every day !

[KangarooKenny]

He’s anyone found the cure to waking early ?

Nope
same here
just about to make another cup of tra
knackered

Go to bed earlier??? I’m a life long early waker, you just need to get to bed earlier the night before.

I go to bed at 10pm, if I go any earlier the dog will have me up in the night for a wee, if I go later I still wake at 5.30.

Sounds silly, but earplugs.
I was always up at 4 and since wearing earplugs sleep until my alarm.
I think I must sleep really lightly at that time of night now, and any tiny noise was getting me up.

If I know I really need to sleep and for special occasions only 😂 I take Night Nurse - otherwise I'm awake after 4 hours, always. Might give the ear plugs a whirl, I was such a good sleeper, I can not believe it's come to this.

I’ve tried ear plugs before due to snoring DH ( now we have separate rooms so it’s not a problem ) and they gave me itchy ears.
I might try an antihistamine as they knock me out

Me too!

Upside is I get a huge amount done by 7am, I did used to wake up in the night too but since I've been on oestrogen patches I do sleep through.

I'd love a lie in but 5.15am, ping, wide awake.

I thought HRT would sort this out but no...
However after review my oestrogen has been increased and I have one pump bed (that sounds wrong...)
Anyway sleep is definitely improving- now I can sleep til 6!

No, I embraced it instead. Used the early hours for laundry, ironing and housework. It was nice, no rush, a quiet house, coffee and the radio. And it meant I only needed to hoover round and prep food during normal hours.

3am for me. I cried down the phone to the GP this week and she's tweaked my HRT dose. I'm really hoping it works, I can feel my mental health declining steadily, but I know it's menopause rather than depression so trying to power through and not being v successful.

5am here. I've been taking magnesium before bed. The last few days it's been closer to 6am.

Wearing a sleep mask really helps me, especially in the summer months.

I increased my patches from 50 to 75 and that did the trick for me. On the whole sleeping better now than I have for years.

I have an Epsom salt bath a couple of times a week, so get magnesium there, but maybe I need to swap to a tablet.
Funnily enough I had a bath last night but was still awake early.
I had a bit of a bad dream and that’s what woke me up today. Yesterday I think I was maybe anxious about work.

I could do with a dream analyst 🤣

I slept until 6am today, feel like I’ve won the lottery !
Somehow 6am feels better than 5.30.

What did you do differently to make you sleep until 6 @KangarooKenny ?

Nothing !
But yesterday I had a couple of things I had to do, so I think that I was maybe slightly internally stressing about it. Plus, I’m not working today.
I love my job and I’ve been doing it for years so I’ve no worry about it, but maybe, due to my age, I do worry a bit but don’t realise.

I kind of like waking at 5:30 😁 just embracing it, but then I’m asleep by 10:30 pm, so a good 7 hours sleep.

I've needed a sleep mask in summer since the menopause...to think I used to like sleeping with the cirtains open so the sun would help me wake up 🙄

I often wake up at 6:30am and wake often in the middle of the night. I can't remember the last time I slept right through the night and was woken up by my alarm.

My dreams are really hard work as well. I often dream I am trying to overcome things like going out with no shoes on and trying to find them.

My DF was having what I would describe as agitated dreams, he was waking up tired. So the GP prescribed phenergan, and he can tell the difference if he’s forgotten it.

I've got some phenergen, I'll try that tonight!

Good luck 🤞🏻

Magnesium malate has helped me enormously. However there's still days I wake up at 4:30 and then cannot get back to sleep. It normally happens when DH has come to bed very late due to having to work in different time zones. I normally get up at 6 but god I hate those days I miss out on my last 1.5 hours of sleep.