Hi Celeste. I am 48 and have the same sleep problem that you do. I have been going through this for about 10 years, but my hormone tests came back good until recently. I finally got on HRT about 6 months ago, but it does not help with the insomnia. I sleep anywhere from 2 to 5 hours a night, but no more. I am exhausted and no one seems to have the answers. I have tried sleeping pills, but they only work every once in a while. Usually after I have had a couple of weeks of really bad nights and would have probably slept anyway. I have no answers.....but wanted to say hello and that I understand.

joolsy, you are among friends and fellow change-of-life mates. I've been living the same roller coaster as you for the past 10 months. As the other learned women here have already written, we're here to listen and share. My H can't quite grasp what's going on with me either so he just pretends it's not happening and he treads very carefully around here now making every effort to not upset me. The only concrete advice I can offer is, on those days where your anxiety level is peaked and you are very brittle emotionally, just keep telling yourself that it won't last very long and you just need to concentrate on being as positive as you can be. It's hard, I know. When this first started with me I thought I was on the verge of a breakdown because my emotion's were all over the place and I didn't know what had happened to change me so. And there are still days where I seriously wonder if I've losing my mind or is it *just* hormonal?!! It really helped me to calm myself and not be quite as worried about my mental state once I realized I was perimenopausal and that is what I was experiencing. Like I said before, when I'm having a really bad day I focus on the fact that maybe tomorrow I will be normal again and if not tomorrow, the next day. It can get depressing. I sometimes get depressed and worried because I have no control over these feelings and I just have to ride it out until it passes. Melancholy is probably a better word to describe it. I had an extremely heightened day today. When I talked to people my mouth was running 100 miles an hour and I could not calm myself down all day. My heart was racing and I couldn't sit still. When I finally got home today I headed right to a hot bath and stayed in there for an hour, bathroom door locked so kids couldn't come in and bother me. It did the trick I was a new person two hours later and calmly worked through homework and music lessons this evening.

Well, it is new (published Feb '18) and it's interesting since it either supports or refutes older assumptions based on concrete genetic evidence. It also appears to solve some long standing 'disputes' and offers a concrete basis for an upated Citrus classification system. The raw results will be of use for further studies and hybridizing work.

I’d love to hear an opinion. Do I need to give more info? Curious if I’m not being clear? I thought many would chime in! Thank you