Women starting perimenopause and those post-menopause tend to not sleep well, according to studies.<\/p>\n
As many as 63% of women have insomnia during menopause and 70% have night sweats which kept them awake.<\/p>\n
The biggest problem across all ethnicities was staying asleep and waking up too early.<\/p>\n
Those problems start in late perimenopause, according to the studies.<\/p>\n
Other studies have looked at how hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can help alleviate sleepless nights.<\/p>\n
There are several variations of it that are legal without a doctor and other types that are legal with a doctor\u2019s care.<\/p>\n
Topical hormone replacement therapies are available both over-the-counter and by prescription.<\/p>\n
These are estrogen creams and intra-vaginal pessaries.<\/p>\n
They will help you sleep but also relieve dryness and atrophy.<\/p>\n
However, you shouldn\u2019t get products containing mineral oil or other additives.<\/p>\n
They can cause irritation.<\/p>\n
HRT as given by a doctor can dramatically improve sleep both in going to sleep and staying asleep.<\/p>\n
It also lessens chronic pain, helps your mood and other symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats.<\/p>\n
One of the best options, according to students from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is estrogen
\nreplacement therapy (ERT).<\/p>\n
This made sleep patterns more like normal for postmenopausal women, according to a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.<\/p>\n
The study of post-menopausal women agest 46 to 62 showe dthat ERT increased patients REM sleep
\nand reduce their awake time during the first two sleep cycles from 20 minutes to 12 minutes.<\/p>\n
A person can have between four and six sleep cycles a night with each ranging from 70 to 120 minutes.<\/p>\n
A sleep cycle is a time of non-REM sleep that is followed by at least five minutes of REM sleep.<\/p>\n
The ERT produced sleep that measures to the same quality of a much younger person, according to the study.<\/p>\n
Women who weren\u2019t given the treatment reported being dissatisfied with their sleep with 10 of the 11 women having complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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