Are They Serious? They Found Menopausal Women Who Sleep?
Posted on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
I picked up a magazine the other day and read that according to a University of Southern California study, menopausal women who get nine hours of sleep a night are about 20% less likely to get breast cancer.
After I picked myself up off the floor, where I had just spent a good ten minutes laughing and another five minutes or so crying, I thought to myself, “huh?” Are any of you ladies out there sleeping even half that amount of time each night? When is the last time you slept through the night? Are you as dumbfounded as I am? Where in the heck did the researchers find menopausal women who could sleep nine hours a night so the data could be gathered? I’m so flummoxed, this is gonna keep me up for days… so what’s new.
Now, we’re going to assume that the researchers at USC found enough menopausal women who were sleeping nine hours a night to complete their study. That’s great ladies, but, if you’re sleeping nine hours a night, could you, like, be so kind as to share your tricks with the rest of us? Why have you been holding out?! You know there’s a whole population of mature women out here in the world who are not so fortunate. We could use a little help here!
I’m sending this request out into cyberspace with a desperate plea. Please share your sleep-strategy with us… the strategy you use to get nine hours of sleep every night. It’s really not polite to keep it all to yourself. I implore you to comment right here to this blog and give us a hint. Comment anytime, day or night… I’ll be up all night anyway. See you here!
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Menopause only momentarily affected my sleeping. In retirement, I force myself to rise at 8 a.m….ok 8:30…or so. I guess I have good sleeping genes!
Hey Anne-Marie,
I have no problem sleeping at 8:00 am…. it’s the 3:00 to 8:00 that’s tough! That’s why I can’t keep a “normal” job! Ha!
🙂 Thanks for the comment!
Where are all the comments from the ladies who are getting their rest? One person so far??? I think that more or less sums up that study. And for the record, I have been up and down every night at least 2 times (a good night) and up to 7/8 times / night w/ hot flashes since I was 51 and I’m 81 now (oops, that’s how old I feel at times).
You’ve made an excellent observation OSS! Where are all the ladies who have been getting their rest? They should be like little dynamos… commenting their little hearts out. You and I, we’re just beat, can’t think, might as well surf the net cause we can’t sleep anyway… oh, I know, I know…
😉
May I request once more that if you’re one of those ladies that fell into the “sleeping good” categories according to the study I mentioned in this blog, that you share your secrets with us. Again, we could use a little help here!
Thank you. I gotta go lay down now. Trying to sleep is exhausting.