Hello! I am deperately seeking help for my sleep problems. I am a 48 year old female in menopause. I am on estrogel 0.06% 2 pumps per day. I rub this gel on my arms , one pump of gel per arm. I have tried estrogen creams, troches, and they didn't make me feel as well as the estrogel. However, I still hae terrible sleep problems. I am on Lunesta 2 mg. I have been taking Lunesta for 2 years now every night. Sometimes I sleep , sometimes I don't. When I do sleep, I only sleep for about 5 hours. If any thing is bothering me whether it bothers me a little or alot I don;t sleep, or I sleep a little at a time and wake up. No matter how tired i am I start feeling awake around 11:00 at night. Sometimes this awake feeling subsides around 1:30 in the morning. Sometimes it doesn't subside at all. It feels like bursts of adreneline even though I don"t have night sweats since I am on estrogel ,although in the morning when I wake up If I have slept or not I do have sweats. When i have what i feel is adreneline rushes I can feel my heart beating in my body sometimes. I feel awake even though i am exhausted sometimes muscle twitching in my arms, lips or eyes. This feeling of wakefullness usually stops between 5:30 and 6:00 in the morning. If I have slept this is usually about the time I wake up. Sometimes I can go back to sleep on and off for several hours . Occasionally I will sleep hard for a couple of hours after I have woke up , This is the only time that I am aware of dreaming, and when this happens its the only time when I feel like I cant get awake during he day. I desperatey need to have consistent sleep at night and I really want to get off sleeping pills. I have been going through this now for years ,please help. Thank You.