Table of contents:
- The cause of insomnia in the days before menstruation
- Not only makes it difficult to sleep, PMS also makes women rarely dream while sleeping
- What can I do to overcome insomnia before menstruation?
Have you been having trouble sleeping at night in the last few days? If so, take a look at your dates and see if your period is close or not. It could be that you have trouble sleeping due to the monthly guest who wants to come.
But calm down, because it's not just you who experience insomnia and sleep disturbances just before menstruation. In fact, maybe almost all women have experienced it, although it does not happen every month. Actually, what causes a woman to have difficulty sleeping when approaching her menstrual schedule?
The cause of insomnia in the days before menstruation
The main reason why you and most women experience insomnia when approaching menstrual schedules is the changes in reproductive hormones that occur in the body. Before the onset of menstruation, your body actually has prepared everything for fertilization, such as ripening the egg, removing the egg, to thicken the uterus as a place for the fetus to grow.
All these things are done by reproductive hormones, including the hormones estrogen and progesterone. The hormones estrogen and progesterone play an important role in the formation of the lining of the uterus, so that these two types of hormones will be high enough in the body until just before menstruation - uterine shedding - occurs.
Meanwhile, these hormones work in contrast to the hormone melatonin which is also known as the sleep hormone. Due to the very high amount of estrogen and progesterone hormones at that time, the hormone melatonin cannot work properly to regulate sleep time and stimulate sleepiness to come. So, don't be surprised if you often experience insomnia during the period leading up to your period.
Not only makes it difficult to sleep, PMS also makes women rarely dream while sleeping
In addition to working in contrast to the sleep hormone, the hormone progesterone is responsible for increasing your body temperature at that time. Increasing body temperature can actually interfere with the process of dreaming at night. Dreams appear every night when you experience stages rapid eye movement (REM) and occurs when the body temperature is at the lowest temperature. However, progesterone confuses the condition by raising body temperature so that the REM stage does not occur.
What can I do to overcome insomnia before menstruation?
Having trouble sleeping at night makes you not fit and refreshed the next day, even though your activities require strong performance and stamina. Then can this be prevented?
- Sports are activities that can help you if these conditions occur. Why sport? Because, exercise is not only good for your health, but it can also stimulate sleep hormones that make you sleep better.
- Avoid drinking alcohol. If you think drinking alcohol can make you fall asleep, then you are wrong. In fact, alcohol can increase the hormone progesterone which can inhibit sleep hormones and prevent REM stages from occurring.
- Log your sleep time each day. It is important that you have a special sleep diary. Yes, this diary serves to record the times and days when you have trouble sleeping. So, you will know the pattern of the sleep disturbance you are experiencing.
