u/IntrepidSnowball

40F, been in peri for a couple of years now, but it didn’t become unbearable until recently. I’m finally on HRT and the effects have been modest. Oral progesterone sedates me, but doesn’t help me sleep, which I didn’t even know was possible. Estradiol seems to have no effect on sleep at all.

I’m either falling asleep at the normal time and waking up around 3 or 4 (classic), or I can’t fall asleep UNTIL 3 or 4 and need to snooze until 10 or 11 to not feel like a zombie.

This is unsustainable, for so many reasons. My regular insomnia-buster (a cocktail of antihistamines, melatonin, Xanax, and magnesium glycinate) is completely ineffective.

I’m at the end of my rope! Is this my new normal? Has anyone come back from this? What did you do?