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You toss. You turn. You can’t get comfortable. Mind races. Change your position again…and again. Even though your bed is comfortable, everything seems wrong because you’re so wired up. One thing you do know is…it’s not going to be easy to drift off. You’re in for a long wait before the sacrament of sleep.

And in the morning, you’ll feel awful, exhausted, drained, no-energy. Think menstruation, menopause, post-menopause. This is the battle of Insomnia and Women…it’s all part of the territory wherein female hormones dictate a lot about the way women sleep.

This Dear Lady is the demon known as insomnia, and it hits women twice as often as it does men since women have such dramatic fluctuations in types and levels of hormones dependant on the calendar in terms of time of the month and/or number of years.

But first things first. An inability to fall asleep easily or inability to stay asleep can come around once or twice a week, or maybe more often. Some women due to chronic pain such as fibromyalgia or arthritis, or due to mood disorders such as depression, stress or anxiety have insomnia every night of their lives. Here’s an irony: it’s self fulfilling and self-propelling. Got pain? It makes it difficult to sleep. Poor sleep? Exacerbates pain. Same thing with mood disorders. It’s depressing to think that when you can’t sleep well that your depression will get worse which makes it even more difficult to sleep. This is a run on sentences and a run of horrible luck. However, if you’re sleeping well now, just wait! If you’re a woman you in all likelihood will go through significant insomnia in your lifetime since experts say, virtually every woman will experience some degree of chronic sleeplessness.
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 at 5:40 pm and is filed under Womens Health, Natural Cures.