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⌈ Secret Post #5700 ⌋

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Re: Sleep habits and insomnia.

[(Anonymous)]

At worst, it's this awful can't-get-comfortable thing where my pillow is rock hard, underwear's bunched up weird, my back itches, no wait it's my leg, it's my neck, etc. etc. and now my underwear's all bunched up again from squirming around.

Yup, I get this. It's very much hormone-related, at least for me. It doesn't happen every single month. Some months I manage to avoid it somehow, but most months there'll be one night, some time just before my period, where I get hit with bad insomnia. And I can always tell it's the hormones sabotaging me when I keep pulling at my clothes and having to scratch a fleeting itch that just reappears somewhere else. I also tend to randomly overheat on these occasions. It's the worst.

What's funny is that I have basically zero PMS otherwise. No pain, no bloating, very mild moodiness, extremely light flow. It took me a long time to realize my insomnia was connected to my cycle, specifically because I'm not used to having "period troubles."

As far as strategies for helping myself sleep: I set the blue light filter on my phone and laptop to turn on quite heavily in the early evening. I use lamps and avoid overhead lights for several hours before bed. And I take 1mg of sublingual melatonin around five hours before bedtime.

A very small dose of melatonin taken hours before bed is the way specialists advise people with circadian rhythm disorders to use melatonin, and since I have a circadian rhythm disorder (which I'm currently managing fairly effectively) I take my melatonin in that way. I have no idea if taking it that way would be of any benefit to someone who didn't have a CRD though.

Unfortunately, the bottom line is that when my hormones are against me, nothing I do can really counteract their effects. Furthermore, if I happen to be anxious about something at the same time as the PMS insomnia is hitting me, then I'm just completely fucked and probably won't sleep until shortly before I have to get up for the day.

Re: Sleep habits and insomnia.

[(Anonymous)]

I never even considered that hormones and my cycle could be a factor, wow.

Re: Sleep habits and insomnia.

[(Anonymous)]

I've begun talking about my periods a lot more with a friend and she mentioned that she gets really hot when she's on her period and I began to notice that I get really hot and sweaty when I'm about to get my period (2-3 days before). It also affects her sleep. Lately for me, not as much. My periods have been on the lighter side for the last couple of months so I don't feel as bloated and uncomfortable.