What medicine should I take for poor sleep during menopause?

Women who have poor sleep quality during menopause can take tranquilizers orally. Poor sleep quality is a common symptom caused by changes in the body's female hormone production. You may also continue to experience sweating, flushed face, fatigue, emotional instability, and in severe cases, symptoms of depression. Therefore, after entering menopause, women must supplement estrogen appropriately. At the same time, they must pay attention to their own psychological adjustments, do more outdoor activities and games, and find something to enrich themselves. You can also eat more foods with high estrogen content such as soybeans, honey, and bee pollen in your diet.

Women often experience insomnia, anxiety, irritability and other symptoms during menopause. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of menopausal insomnia needs to take into account the syndrome differentiation and treatment characteristics of kidney essence deficiency. It can use traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation and treatment to comprehensively regulate the functions of the five internal organs, balance yang and yin, regulate emotions, and improve sleep. It can also be combined with some dietary therapies for treatment, such as taking some wolfberry, yellow chrysanthemum, rose and other herbal teas to soothe the liver and regulate qi, nourish the heart and calm the mind.

Male menopause is prone to mental and psychological symptoms, the most common of which is insomnia. Since female menopause is caused by a decrease in male hormones, the drugs used in clinical medicine to treat menopausal insomnia include:

1. Decreased male hormones: Chinese medicine that nourishes the kidneys, strengthens yang, soothes the liver, regulates qi, clears away heat, detoxifies, and activates blood circulation can be used to treat insomnia;

2. Deficiency of male hormone: Male hormone supplementation can be given for treatment, and stable drugs can be used in combination to treat insomnia.

What Chinese medicine should be taken for menopausal insomnia? It mainly includes two categories of medicines: 1. Medicines to improve menopausal symptoms; 2. Medicines to improve sleep quality. Women often experience anxiety, depression, mood swings, and poor mentality during menopause. To treat this type of symptom, you can take Delexin, 1 tablet in the morning and 1 tablet at noon. Note that this medicine should not be taken at night because it can affect sleep quality. Start with 1/4 tablet of olanzapine before bedtime, and gradually increase the dosage to half a tablet before bedtime, 3/4 tablet before bedtime, and 1 tablet before bedtime each week. To improve sleep quality, you can first take new types of sleep quality improving drugs. This type of drug has a fast effect, a short half-life, and no complications when waking up the next morning. This type of drug is not addictive. This type of drug mainly includes trazodone, zolpidem, and s-zopiclone. If the effect is not good after taking this type of medicine, you can switch to alprazolam. If the effect is still weak after taking alprazolam, you can switch to clonazepam, starting with half a tablet before going to bed, and gradually increase the dosage to 1 tablet before going to bed.