53 and for the last few months I've been waking bolt upright at almost exactly 3am. Not needing the loo, not a noise, just... awake. Heart going, that low-level dread sitting on my chest like something bad has happened and I can't work out what. The thing is I genuinely can't tell if it's peri or just the cumulative stress of the last two years. Both? Neither? My brain at 3am is not exactly helpful on this front. So I've started writing it down. Just a scrappy note on my phone each morning, time I woke, rough sense of how the evening went, whether I'd had wine. (The wine thing is something I'm actually paying attention to now. Weeknight glasses were becoming a habit and I want to see if they're connected.) I'm going to give it a week or two and then take the notes to my GP. I've been putting the appointment off because I know how it sounds: "I wake up at 3am and feel anxious but I can't point to anything specific." I'm already bracing for the "have you tried sleep hygiene" conversation 🙄 Anyone else been through this and actually got somewhere with a GP? I want to go in with something concrete, not just vibes. x