I was having the same problem a couple of yrs ago. My dr recommended I read the book entitled "No more sleepless nights". (cant remember the author) It had several suggestions that worked for me. Of course there are the usual ones...cut out caffeine, dont exercise right before bed etc but a couple I didn't know about that helped me were: don't take a hot bath or shower before bed...in fact make your bedroom as cold as you can tolerate. Heat stimulates the body, increasing heart rate etc, cold does the opposite And you do get sleepy. Move the clock so you can't see it, get up and out of bed if you haven't fallen a sleep after a few minutes. Don't toss and turn. Sit quietly and read, meditate or pray but no tv, commuters or housecleaning I went from sleeping 1-3 hrs/ night to 6-7 hrs. Still not back to my pre-menopause days of 8hrs/ ight but livable
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