Hi ladies,
It's been a while since I posted. I'm guilty of not coming here when I feel good as I feel like I have to make up what I lost like more family time.
But any way, does anybody get those early morning jitters and can't go back to sleep? I mean early..still dark out. The anxiety is so intense..thoughts racing like crazy. The more I lay there the more the anxiety is. I go through this on and off and can't understand it. I'm like this till evening. I definitly can not drink coffee and have no appetite. Now my joints are starting to hurt. I wake up so stiff. I had just got a new bed thinking it was that. I usually have to take klonopin at night to help fall asleep but the last 2 nights I fell asleep on my own. Anybody elsefeel like this???

hi,

Yes I do get nights like you are describing.I tend to get my health anxiety starting then and as you thoughts racing,probably drift off about an hr before I,m due to get up then it stays with me all day,can,t seem to switch off.

Have also stopped drinking coffee (don,t think it has helped though?!)
And strangely enough we brought a new matress several months ago as was having aches pains in neck shoulders jaw etc. Still having them also though.

So no advice just to say YEAH I understand

Hope tonight is better for you

Take care

KathS

I have trouble with anxiety and sleep at times. I would have trouble getting to sleep because my mind wouldn't turn off so to speak and as I laid there the anxiety would start to build. Then I would wake up every 2 hrs and that is not good when you have to get up at 4:30. I would get to thinking about things that needed to be done, or things I think I would like to do, and couldn't get my mind to shut off so the anxiety started again.
I gave up and started taking something to help me sleep, at least now I can fall asleep and get 5-6 good hours, but if I do wake up, the mind takes off kind of like a vicious cycle!!

Sorry you are having to deal with this.
jes

Hi

This has been one of my most worse symptoms. I can fall asleep O.K but I cannot stay asleep.

My mind races over thrthings I worry about, mostly health anxiety and I cannot get back to sleep. Its as if I have to worry over something which makes my anxiety worse. It has definetly increased my health anxiety. Every day I constantly worry about something today is am I going to have a heart attack as I have had pains in my chest.

But all the mind racing thing makes my anxiety worse.

I want it to all end, sleep enriches us all and if you don't get it surely its not good for you.

Anyway I hope we all get through this soon.

Love to you all

Ina xxx

I have to take 1mg of Xanax to sleep and I do wake up but mostly can fall back a sleep. I have had the health anxiety, waking up suddenly as if someone shot me with the heart racing, then the brain racing. I have woken up gasping for air and had to gulp cold air to get my breath. If I don't take something I am up until wellllll forever...as it is I am up until 2:00am. I have to sleep. I had to take a leave from work due to peri issues and other issues (fell at work). I still fall asleep at 2:00 am but usually I blissfully sleep until 10-11, if i wake up I can generally get back to sleep. I realize that many people cannot languish in bed until 10-11am but they could take something earlier than i do. I only do that because for whatever reason if I take it earlier I wake up earlier and for me if I wake up before 9:00, I feel like I need to sleep more and would take .50 of Xanax to get back to sleep. Hence, I stay up later so I only have to take 1mg per day instead of potentially 1.50 mg per day. I hear Benedryl is supposed to work too. I take Lexapro which has helped with the health anxiety and anxiety in general. Doesn't really help the sleep issue except I don't wake up with anxiety and my anxiety level has reduced at least by 90-95%. I hope you all get the sleep you richly deserve, lack of it in my opinion is a major precursor to being able to cope or not cope with whatever is thrown at you during peri/meno. Take care, Mich

Hello,
I can relate to what you're talking about. I often wake up at around 5.0am with my chest tight and my heart beating, skin crawling, body burning and lots of amorphous mental and emotional pain. That's if I can get to sleep by 5.0am! It feels as if my body is screaming and this state can last all day. I long for a rest from all this stuff. I take tissue salts to help me sleep and they do have some effect, but not enough. If I'm desperate I take periactin which is an antihistamine, which knocks me out, though I feel extremely and unpleasantly groggy for a couple of days afterwards, so it's not a goer except in emergencies.
Hope we can both get some help with this.
All the best,
Anne

I can relate to all of you too. i wake up anxious and dont know why because i felt ok the night before. i started lexapro 3 weeks ago which helps calm me down but i notice as i get closer to my period (which is not regular anymore) i get anxious. it is the type of anxiety that feels as if something bad is about to happen. i am hoping as the lexapro kicks in more i will feel better. my breasts never stop feeling sore (PMS sore) even if i have my period. does anybody experience this. thank you

I too have this I take a herbal tab to get off to sleep "Complete Sleep" that does the job but around 4.30am I wake up and my legs and arms are tingling this then starts the health anxiety and I feel like well if I jump out of bed it wont get me, we purchased a new bed and I was blaming that but I think these bones are just taking a hit like the rest of me. Earlier when someone was ill I would say "what are your symptons", hoping they were the same as mine as it made me feel safer but I have now come to realise that it is all part and parcel of Meno.
Even my mum said "my God, my daughter is older than me " doesn't help me when I hear that, its true though at the moment she has more life in her than me.
I am eagerly waiting to reach the other side of this part of my life.
We will get there together xx