I completely relate to this. I’m usually in bed by 8:30 and don’t enjoy late nights. Lately, perimenopause has me waking up at 3 am, which is rough after being a lifelong good sleeper. I do most of the things on your list and have also added bio-identical progesterone cream, which has helped a bit. When I don’t sleep well, I’m a total mess—super dramatic and zero tolerance for anything. I’ve also been trying red light therapy to help with my circadian rhythm. This is such a tough topic. I feel for you!
Gonna start to get dark where I live around 4:30 pretty soon. That is depressing. Since the time change the evenings have been weird for me. 7 comes and I think it's 5 and then I get a second wind. I love the list - we should have been doing all of this stuff before to prepare for bed, but we had our hormones help us out like a little night night pill. Now that we can't rely on that as much we have to do the things manually that the hormones were doing for us.
Would you suggest drinking a gallon of water before bed? ;-)
It's not you. I think there's something going on with autocorrect or tricks the phone is playing on us because I'm having things pop up into my words that I know I didn't write. And if that's not totally true that's the story I'm sticking with. You're still my pal.
I get that! The struggle is REAL. I have to be super intentional to be able to fall back asleep these days. I am finding I wake up less when I haven’t been scrolling before bed though so the sleep experts are on to something - unfortunately for you and I it is THAT! 💛
I completely relate to this. I’m usually in bed by 8:30 and don’t enjoy late nights. Lately, perimenopause has me waking up at 3 am, which is rough after being a lifelong good sleeper. I do most of the things on your list and have also added bio-identical progesterone cream, which has helped a bit. When I don’t sleep well, I’m a total mess—super dramatic and zero tolerance for anything. I’ve also been trying red light therapy to help with my circadian rhythm. This is such a tough topic. I feel for you!
Gonna start to get dark where I live around 4:30 pretty soon. That is depressing. Since the time change the evenings have been weird for me. 7 comes and I think it's 5 and then I get a second wind. I love the list - we should have been doing all of this stuff before to prepare for bed, but we had our hormones help us out like a little night night pill. Now that we can't rely on that as much we have to do the things manually that the hormones were doing for us.
Would you suggest drinking a gallon of water before bed? ;-)
I’m at a point where if I don’t drink my sleepy time tea before 6pm then I am just not having g tea that night 😁 Even without it I’m up in the night!
Pretty soon I'm going to need to start getting ready for bed at 3:00pm.
Also, it’s EATING away at me that I cannot delete that sneaky little extra ‘g’ that popped its way into my reply after the word ‘having’.
😂💛
It's not you. I think there's something going on with autocorrect or tricks the phone is playing on us because I'm having things pop up into my words that I know I didn't write. And if that's not totally true that's the story I'm sticking with. You're still my pal.
I get that! The struggle is REAL. I have to be super intentional to be able to fall back asleep these days. I am finding I wake up less when I haven’t been scrolling before bed though so the sleep experts are on to something - unfortunately for you and I it is THAT! 💛