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I've been taking HRT for 2 weeks now and I'm hardly sleeping at all. Do I need to stick with it until it kicks in?
Does anyone know anything at all.
Thanks
Love Caroline xx
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Posted , 4 users are following.
I've been taking HRT for 2 weeks now and I'm hardly sleeping at all. Do I need to stick with it until it kicks in?
Does anyone know anything at all.
Thanks
Love Caroline xx
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Zigangie caroline74698
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I'm really hoping that maybe the estrogen is needing to build up in my system for a while or perhaps I need a higher dose.
If it is making some of your other symptoms better then I'd say give it a while and see. If after 3 months or so things have not gone back to normal see if you can try a different one.
caroline74698 Zigangie
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Can you not sleep either? Xxx
Zigangie caroline74698
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I got 8 blissful nights beginning of HRT where I felt just like I used to after 8 hours.
It then went back to the same.
But the last 10 days it's gone back line early peri I sleep a few hours wake for a couple then back for another few.
It's much better than being awake all night.
I'm hoping to try upping the dose of estrogen to see if that make a difference and if not maybe try a different one.
I have a few days to go and I will have been on it 3 months.
I had bad depression and anxiety that has begun to lift and no longer hot all the time so it's all good.
caroline74698 Zigangie
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As long as I get a few hours sleep with no anxiety I can handle that.
Thanks xxx
Sochima822 caroline74698
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elizabeth2244 caroline74698
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I am not up in the middle of the night and its helping me great.
Zigangie elizabeth2244
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I didn't think HRT helped with sleep. But as I had done nothing else but apply estrogen gel and had 8 prefect nights I googled it and it does appear the estrogen part can normalise sleep patterns.
I was shocked actually as I have suffered so long with this I really wasn't expecting it to do anything for my sleep. I'd always been told by doctors that it was to do with my depression. It really was quite remarkable. I apply it after a bath at 8 PM and by 11 I was so tired, not at all like me, I was sleeping by midnight and woke at 8 am exactly the same every night for 8 nights. Such a pity it didn't continue.
However I'm at 3 months in now and sleep has gone back to being able to get to sleep then waking a few hours later. This is quite an improvement from being unable to sleep at all until the early hours and then being a zombie. So although my sleep is broken I am getting more of it 2 to 3 hours a couple awake then back again in the early hours.
But it really doesn't compare to the initial 8 nights where when I woke up I was totally refreshed and ready for the day.
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