Anyway to stop peri insomnia?

[clockandstagger]

I had a really bad period of insomnia earlier this year which honestly traumatised me a bit. I am not a lot more concerned about my sleep and I still get around 1 night a week where no matter how tired I am I'll wake up after an hour and then lie awake all night. I do use HRT both patches ang utrogestan which doesn't seem to help my sleep especially.

I have tried magnesium glycinate which made things worse for me, I do use CBD oil which I am not sure is doing anything. When I have a bad night it ruins the following day and maybe even the day after. I notice that if I have to attend an event or party it takes me a quite a while to wind down so I prefer to leave early to have that at home so I will sleep ok.

I just wish there was a way to ensure I'd have a good 7.5 hours a night at least most nights. I don't do caffeine after lunch, I don't drink I did take a nytol last night but I prefer to avoid it as it doesn't even work that well and I feel awful the next day also use of the anti-histamine in it has been linked to dementia and the other safer antihistamines don't do anything.

Anyone found a reliable cure?

What dose of oestrogen are you on? Do you have enough?

I got it for perimenopausal anxiety and insomnia - I take 50mg a night which is enough to help me drift off slowly without that horrible groggy feeling in the morning. As I'm drifting off I listen to Nothing Much Happens, and that's really helped as well. Hope you can get your GP to prescribe it, insomnia is absolutely miserable.

I just went up to 75mg earlier this year, I think it is controlling most other symptoms but I will see how it goes and ask my GP about going up to 100mg.

Listening to binaural beats (using headphones)

Yeah I was prescribed for sleep issues. It has definitely helped me. I was starting to become really mentally affected by my lack of sleep and I notice that if I don’t take it one night I’m really not in a great space the next day.