4d ago
50 and wide awake at 3am again last night, lying there doing that thing where you try to work out if you're anxious because you woke up or if you woke up because you're anxious. genuinely cannot tell anymore. it's been nearly every night this month. heart going a bit, nothing specific to worry about, just that low-level dread that sits on your chest until about 5am when you finally drop off again and then obviously the alarm goes at 6:30. honestly i don't know if this is peri or if it's just. life. stress. my brain being horrible to me. but i'm 50 and my periods have gone a bit unpredictable so maybe that's something. i've got a GP appointment coming up and i want to actually ask about HRT properly this time, specifically whether it can help with the sleep rather than just flushing. has anyone gone in and asked that directly? i always lose my thread the moment i sit down. also someone in another thread mentioned protein at breakfast helping with energy levels through the day and i've quietly started doing eggs in the morning instead of nothing, which is. fine. not life changing. but i feel slightly less desperate by 11am so i'll take it. cutting back on wine on weeknights too because i read it disrupts sleep in the second half of the night which, yes, that tracks. just wanted to say it out loud to people who might actually get it x