Core body temperature reaches its lowest point in the early hours and sleep is lightest then, so anything that disturbs you is most likely to wake you fully at that point. If night sweats are the cause, this is when they surface. If they are not, the same light-sleep window still explains the timing.
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Whether sweats are the cause changes the whole plan, so a Los Angeles appointment about sleep starts by establishing what the waking actually feels like. If night sweats are waking you, the treatment is the treatment for night sweats, and sleep usually improves within weeks of getting them under control. Many women do not connect the two because they wake up cold, having already sweated and cooled.
If you are waking without sweats, the mechanism is different. Progesterone has a sedative effect and its decline genuinely affects sleep architecture, and the anxiety that often accompanies the transition contributes as well.
Sleep apnoea also becomes more common after menopause and is substantially underdiagnosed in women. Loud snoring, waking with a dry mouth or headache, and daytime sleepiness despite time in bed are the signs worth raising. Worth reading next: progesterone, menopause symptoms and heart health after menopause go further into it. Bring up snoring, morning headaches or daytime sleepiness at a Los Angeles appointment, because apnea is commonly missed in women and needs its own assessment.
