Understand
Why sleep often changes in perimenopause
What is understood about the link, described without claiming to explain your particular nights.
5 minSource: The Menopause Society
What is commonly described
Sleep disturbance is one of the most frequently reported experiences of the menopause transition.
Several things tend to overlap: hot flashes and night sweats that wake people, shifts in mood and anxiety, and changes in the hormones involved in sleep regulation.
Life stage matters too. These are often years with teenagers, aging parents, and demanding work. None of that is hormonal, and all of it affects sleep.
What Narrated will not do
We cannot tell you which of these explains your nights, and we will not guess. What we can do is help you keep a clear record to take to someone who can examine you.
Source
General background from The Menopause Society. Individual care decisions belong with your own clinician.
Sleep is where memory consolidates and mood resets. It compounds further than almost anything else here.
General information, not medical advice. Narrated never diagnoses.
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