Prednisolone insomnia / little sleep

[Wonder_Dog]

Hi all,

I have been taking 10mg prednisolone steroids first thing every morning since egg collection (for high uNK cells), and am now 4 weeks & 3 days pregnant after a fresh transfer.

I am so so grateful for this miracle BFP, genuinely cannot believe our luck, however I am getting max. 4-5hrs sleep per night as a result of the steroids, and it’s beginning to really affect me.

Would anyone have experience of this & be able to offer advice as to what to do?

I hope I don’t come across as ungrateful, I’m just genuinely concerned that the sleep deprivation will affect me or the baby in some way if this keeps up.

Thank you in advance for any tips/ideas! X

[Ivfgotadream]

Congratulations on your BFP

What time do you take your prednisolone? It’s. Well known to cause really bad insomnia so I would take mine as early as possible in the morning - as soon as I wake up - I was usually up around 6am and this seemed to minimise the worst of the insomnia x

[Wonder_Dog in reply to Ivfgotadream]

Thank you so much ❤️ So I’m waking about 4/5am every day and try to get back to sleep and don’t actually get up til my 7.30am alarm, that’s when I take them. But I’ll make take them when I wake at 4/5am then seeing as I’m awake anyway 🙈 Will see if that helps any! Thank you for the tip! X

[XOXO13]

Congratulations on your BFP! 🌈

I had the same thing for weeks on end, and I was taking dexamethasone until I was 13 weeks pregnant and it continued for a few weeks after that too! It would really frustrate me… it didn’t have an affect on the babies so don’t worry about that. When you can’t sleep though, don’t just lay there as I’ve read that’s no good. I’d get up, make myself a Horlicks, read or put my CALM app on and eventually would drift back off. Not ideal … but it did eventually pass. Xxx

[Wonder_Dog in reply to XOXO13]

Thank you so much for this advice. I will definitely try this! Don’t have the Calm app so downloading now ☺️ X

[Zebedee1971]

That's so funny. I slept TERRIBLY when I was pregnant, had no idea it could have been linked to the steroids. I got through it fine though. Good luck with your pregnancy 🤗🤗 x

[Wonder_Dog in reply to Zebedee1971]

Thanks so much. I’m so excited & grateful 🥰 x

[Sfarre]

No steroids but I slept so badly in pregnancy! Couple of things that helped - sleepy lotion from Lush liberally applied, and nighttime meditations. I love Andrew Johnson's go to sleep and back to sleep.

[Wonder_Dog in reply to Sfarre]

Thanks so much, I’ve not heard of either of these things before! X