How To Sleep With Pms Insomnia
An introduction to insomnia and pms.
How to sleep with pms insomnia. Emotional variability irritability stress and fatigue can also can contribute to insomnia. Most mild to moderate cases of pms can be managed with lifestyle choices including adherence to an exercise schedule even during your cycle improving your diet and cutting back hard on caffeine particularly during your menstrual cycle. Pms and sleep problems symptoms of pms insomnia treatment options expert insights from dr. While premenstrual insomnia is not the most common pms symptom it can be an unfortunate normal part of pms and pmdd.
Premenstrual syndrome pms seems to cause both insomnia and hypersomnia. This also becomes a bigger problem after age 35. Brooke dulka a medical writer and neuroscientist who received her ph d. Different women experience different symptoms.
Many menstrual symptoms like bloating and cramps cause physical discomfort that make it tougher to sleep. Women are twice as likely as men to have their sleep patterns affected predominantly due to their monthly hormonal cycle as pms can make the problem worse. The real issue comes when you have too much estrogen and not enough progesterone to keep this all balanced and is when pms and insomnia get funky. The impact of this problem which affects a large number of people is often underestimated.
The estrogen connection according to a 2007 national sleep foundation poll 33 of women say their sleep is disturbed during their menstrual cycles. During your menstrual cycle and especially before your period your sleep pattern is definitely influenced by your estrogen and progesterone levels. Treat the pms and you usually vastly improve the insomnia or at least relieve the sleep disturbances. In biological psychology from the university of tennessee and she is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the university of wisconsin milwaukee where she studies the neurobiology of memory.