Not sleeping well/aches and pains

[GREENBANK]

Hello,

i'm a 45yr old female.
struggling to sleep well, i can fall off to sleep easily, but after 3 to 4 hours i'm awake, i can't get back off to sleep until half an hour or so before i need to get up. my joints ache quite painfully sometimes, shoulders, hips, knees, wrists etc.. this gets easier after about an hour.
does anyone else have similar experience and what helps you ?
or does anyone know what it is and treatment/do's and don'ts ?

please and thankyou (knackered and grouchy GB)

[Panic Button]

A new mattress

Cod liver oil

Rose Hip extract

[LoftyLottie]

Have you seen your doctor. Joint pains,arthritic symptoms and sleep disburbance quite commonly occur around the time of the pre-menopause/ menopause. (Sorry to bring age into it!).

I am arthritic and suffer as you do, and it is quite common for arthritis sufferers to experience pain and stiffness in joints which can keep you awake and then get better once you have been up for an hour or so. I can hardly walk when I get up in the morning and take a while to get going.

However, I would go to the doctors and discuss this and get some checks done.

[Panic Button]

Try taking 2 ibuprofen tablets just before going to bed

(not on an empty stomach though, perhaps with a biccy or a glass of milk)

[blade1834]

You should get the doctor to check you for the menopause, one of the symptons is aching joints.

[Connemmara]

you sound you have fibromyalgia - have you had stress in any shape or form lately.