My Sleep Struggles in Menopause For most of my life (apart from the baby days!) sleep was pretty simple. I’d put my head down, drift off, and wake up ready for the day. But once perimenopause arrived, it felt like my nights were getting completely hijacked. Hot flushes, heart palpitations, waking up again and again, restless legs, and that 3 a.m. “ping” of being wide awake for no reason at all - it all became part of my new normal. After a while, it wasn’t just the lack of sl