As I write these words, it's 5 a.m. I
was up till 1:30 a.m. working on tax documents and college financial aid forms.
Hmmm, 3 1/2 hours of sleep - sound familiar?
"How can you get by on so little sleep?!" That's the
question many of my friends pose to me, friends who A) haven't been throu...
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Answer, can't..........at least, not indefinitely.
charlise joy
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 06:13 PM
It has been seven years since I began the sleep deprivation, mood swings, digestive disorders ( read farting) that have been my menopausal experience. For a year I tried Premarin, then backed away because I was fearful of heart attack and stroke theat. After several months of night sweats and 24/7 dark moods, I tried Bioidentical HRT for about a year.........only to decide again to go cold turkey...........again the night sweats on an hourly basis and the daytime sweats convinced me to try again with the bio-idents.
Now, I'm 65, have been off bio-idents for about 9 months and haven't slept more than 1 1/2 hours at a time since. I read these blogs to discover if I am having a singular experience......and think not. Today my mission was to discover if anyone has created a mattress pad of some sort that would be helpful. Something that I imagine would separate me from the heat absorbing/radiating surface of the usual mattress top and allow me to stay in bed overnight and perhaps sleep longer than 90 minutes at a time.
The only item I find is a Homedics Temp Rite Mattress Topper...........anybody used this?
It has been seven years since I began the sleep deprivation, mood swings, digestive disorders ( read farting) that have been my menopausal experience. For a year I tried Premarin, then backed away because I was fearful of heart attack and stroke theat. After several months of night sweats and 24/7 dark moods, I tried Bioidentical HRT for about a year.........only to decide again to go cold turkey...........again the night sweats on an hourly basis and the daytime sweats convinced me to try again with the bio-idents.
Now, I'm 65, have been off bio-idents for about 9 months and haven't slept more than 1 1/2 hours at a time since. I read these blogs to discover if I am having a singular experience......and think not. Today my mission was to discover if anyone has created a mattress pad of some sort that would be helpful. Something that I imagine would separate me from the heat absorbing/radiating surface of the usual mattress top and allow me to stay in bed overnight and perhaps sleep longer than 90 minutes at a time.
The only item I find is a Homedics Temp Rite Mattress Topper...........anybody used this?