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Cure Female Sleeping Problems - Menopause and Insomnia
Connection Discovered
If
you are a woman in your middle age and you suspect your sleep has gotten worse. . .
Or
as a husband, the woman in your life suddenly drives you crazy with her inability to sleep. . .
.
. .a new study now explains why this happens and how to deal with it.
It
is sometimes hard for women to avoid the conclusion that they have gotten a raw
deal in life compared to men, and this sleep issue is another fact to add to the long list of why that may be
true.
When
women pass from their reproductive to their post-reproductive years, they go
through a period during which their ovaries produce gradually decreasing
amounts of the hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.
During
this time, the levels of these hormones fluctuate wildly, giving rise to all
the unpleasant menopausal symptoms with which we women are familiar.
Dr.
Colleen Ciano presented a study on the relationship between menopause and female
sleeping problems at the 2016 annual meeting of the North American Menopause
Society.
At
this stage it has not yet been published, but it does follow up on a similar,
but less detailed, study she presented at the same venue in 2015.
She
was interested not only in the rate and severity of insomnia
during this period, but also in the impact that different menopausal stages
have on insomnia.
Like
other medical scientists, she divided the whole experience into perimenopause
and menopause.
Perimenopause
refers to the period leading up to the last menstrual period and the 12 months
subsequent to it; menopause is the stage that begins 12 months after the last
menstrual period.
Dr.
Ciano analyzed 10 years of data collected from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation(SWAN) and found the
following:
#1
- Overall, 31 to 42 percent of women experience insomnia
symptoms during perimenopause and menopause. These include difficulty falling asleep, problems staying asleep, and poor sleep quality.
#2
- The later the stage, the greater the risk you will sleep poorly. In the
earliest stage of perimenopause, women are 0.82 times less likely to suffer
from insomnia
than those in late menopause or post-menopause.
#3
- The risk of insomnia is the greatest in women whose menopause is brought
about by surgery. They are 0.7 times more likely to sleep poorly than those who naturally progress from early perimenopause
to menopause.
This
is important not only because it provides another reason why surgery should be
a last resort, but also so that women can know what to expect as they progress
through the whole experience, and so that physicians can know how to guide them
through it.
In
addition, earlier this year we reported on two studies performed at the
University of California at Los Angeles that show that, when combined with insomnia,
menopause speeds up the rate at which women’s biological clock ticks, literally
aging them faster.
One
of these studies found that postmenopausal insomniacs were biologically about
two years older than good sleepers of the same age.
The
new study is further confirmation that you must deal with the worsening insomnia
as you proceed through the stages of your menopause.
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