Change in sleep pattern

[Kylo]

I've been just over 1 week on T and noticed a change in how I sleep, from the first day.

I used to be a very light sleeper, but now I'm ultra-light. It's almost like I'm "only just" asleep, or only just beneath the surface of sleep and it's much easier to waken quickly. I also notice it's a lot easier to fall asleep and I don't spend an hour lying awake thinking before I doze off, like I have my entire life before this.

It reminds me slightly of when I took certain anti-depressants in the past, I think it was Zoloft, that made me feel as if sleeping and waking blurred into one another. Except it's not unpleasant like that and I do wake up feeling like I got some rest at least, which didn't happen under Zoloft.

My dreams are a bit odd too - they seem to go from one scene to another much more quickly or are less focused on one thing for a long period of time (or what seems a long period of time, I'm sure it isn't in real time). 

Anyone else experience changes in sleep with T?

Anyone on E can weigh in too and talk about how blocking T and taking E has changed their sleep, if at all, if they want to 

[Dee Marshall]

OK, since you invited us so nicely!

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a difference between E-sleep and T-sleep, but I see some things in the way of describing just what those would be. Spironolactone wakes me every hour and a half to pee, so that's one thing. Another is probably "my brain is using the right hormone now".

I do find that I can wake rested before the alarm consistently unless I'm really short of sleep. I couldn't before.

[Deborah]

I sleep much better with HRT.  But what really makes the biggest difference is eating a good diet and exercising a lot.  When I do that I sleep like a teenager, except for the spiro waking me up a few times.  But even with that I can fall back asleep nearly instantly.


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[FTMax]

The only change I've noticed related to sleep is that I can function with less if I need to. I'd still strongly prefer to get 10 hours, but I can easily function on 6 or less whereas before it would've been a struggle.

Haven't noticed any difference in how heavily I sleep. I'm pretty much out as soon as my head hits the pillow most nights, and I don't wake up until I have to pee or my annoying alarm goes off. And that was pretty much the same as before.

[Kylo]

In the past 6 hours was always my "optimum" sleep amount, 8 was too much and makes me sleepier and 5 not enough. At the moment I'm going to bed around 4 and getting up round 10 or 11 so I guess it's the same on T or no. I still get up without an alarm clock literally at the same minute each day.

I guess it's unique to the person. My bf will sleep for 12 hrs+ unless the alarm goes, he has no internal clock that seems to wake him up. I wondered if T would make me more like this but apparently not.