I know everyone associates prog with breast growth, but I take it to help me sleep - 100 mg taken rectally before bed helped me sleep 10+ hours again, where before with just estrogen I struggled to sleep any longer than 8 hours. That said, I was taking large doses of estrogen for monotherapy then. I don’t know what my sleep would be like on my current estrogen dose without prog.
Yes, I used to need to sleep 11 - 12 hours every night pre-transition, and I usually didn’t feel rested even when I actually was unconscious and slept well that long.
When I started estrogen, I started sleeping 6 - 8 hours and feeling rested for the first time since I was a kid. However, I sometimes felt like I would like to have slept a little longer, and there was a feeling that the high estrogen kept me from sleeping as much.
As mentioned, taking progesterone rectally is what changed that for me, now I can sleep as long as 10 - 11 hours (usually I can’t sleep 12 hours, and most of the time I can’t sleep more than 10 hours).
However, I wonder since my orchi and lowering my E dose significantly what my sleep would be like without prog 🤷♀️
huh, well I had to look at my medical records because I knew I had been diagnosed with insomnia about the same time as I started hrt but it was at least 8 months before I started so I don’t think it would help me. especially since I don’t think I’d have ever been on high dosage e since I was not mono until recently.
yeah, that doesn’t sound related to the HRT tbh 😅 And I would say the high estrogen just made it harder to sleep in, it’s not like I couldn’t fall asleep or had trouble staying asleep through the night. Overall estrogen seemed to help my sleep, I felt more rested when I woke up.
interesting I don’t take progesterone but it’s good to know if I ever decided to.
I know everyone associates prog with breast growth, but I take it to help me sleep - 100 mg taken rectally before bed helped me sleep 10+ hours again, where before with just estrogen I struggled to sleep any longer than 8 hours. That said, I was taking large doses of estrogen for monotherapy then. I don’t know what my sleep would be like on my current estrogen dose without prog.
that’s a thing? I know I typically don’t sleep much at all if I don’t take my bipolar meds but I didn’t think it had anything to do with taking e. 🤔
Yes, I used to need to sleep 11 - 12 hours every night pre-transition, and I usually didn’t feel rested even when I actually was unconscious and slept well that long.
When I started estrogen, I started sleeping 6 - 8 hours and feeling rested for the first time since I was a kid. However, I sometimes felt like I would like to have slept a little longer, and there was a feeling that the high estrogen kept me from sleeping as much.
As mentioned, taking progesterone rectally is what changed that for me, now I can sleep as long as 10 - 11 hours (usually I can’t sleep 12 hours, and most of the time I can’t sleep more than 10 hours).
However, I wonder since my orchi and lowering my E dose significantly what my sleep would be like without prog 🤷♀️
huh, well I had to look at my medical records because I knew I had been diagnosed with insomnia about the same time as I started hrt but it was at least 8 months before I started so I don’t think it would help me. especially since I don’t think I’d have ever been on high dosage e since I was not mono until recently.
yeah, that doesn’t sound related to the HRT tbh 😅 And I would say the high estrogen just made it harder to sleep in, it’s not like I couldn’t fall asleep or had trouble staying asleep through the night. Overall estrogen seemed to help my sleep, I felt more rested when I woke up.