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How do you feel when you wake up

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Motherofmonsters · 28/08/2022 21:52

When I wake up I always feel sick, lightheaded and a bit nauseous. It always goes when I've been moving around for a bit but I'm beginning to wonder if it's an issue or if it's a common way to feel when you wake up.

I've got two young kids so I've always put it down to being tired

How do you feel when you wake up?

OP posts:
MrsLeBouef · 28/08/2022 23:59

@Motherofmonsters that sounds like anxiety to me. I get it too.

ClumpingBambooIsALie · 29/08/2022 00:02

TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz · 28/08/2022 23:48

I feel sorry for us all but I have to say, I’m finding comfort in there being so many of us in this boat! I was under the impression everyone else woke up motivated and rested, and skipped to the kettle with a big smile. 😂

That lot toddled off to bed yawning two hours ago.

PeloAddict · 29/08/2022 00:05

TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz · 28/08/2022 23:48

I feel sorry for us all but I have to say, I’m finding comfort in there being so many of us in this boat! I was under the impression everyone else woke up motivated and rested, and skipped to the kettle with a big smile. 😂

Definitely. I don't drink and I still feel shit!
Thought most people woke up rested rather than me who looks like something out of hocus pocus muttering FFS as I make tea

Ponderingwindow · 29/08/2022 00:07

If i haven’t gotten enough sleep, I feel lightheaded and like I need to vomit. I’ve been that way for most of my life.

these days I also tend to wake up in pain in multiple places.

JaneJeffer · 29/08/2022 00:08

Terrible. It's the cortisol. Takes 2 coffees and an hour to feel "normal"

chubbachub · 29/08/2022 00:08

Like I've ran a marathon in my sleep

MissingNashville · 29/08/2022 00:08

If I’m still tired, I can feel a bit sick, but as long as I’ve had enough sleep, I feel good.

How much sleep do you get? Do you eat well? Exercise? Drink enough? Are you on any medication?

IsJohnReadyToMakeAComeback · 29/08/2022 00:10

I sleep pretty well and in the mornings I feel really good, but I have MS and that good feeling is gone by 10am when I want to go back to sleep.

Neverendingdust · 29/08/2022 00:12

Drink a shit tonne of water throughout the day.

Don’t eat at least 2 hours before sleeping.

Drink 1 pint of water as soon as you wake up to rehydrate yourself

Take a multivitamin (Well Woman etc)

bluedomino · 29/08/2022 00:14

Pain. Pain and more pain. Overwhelming pain when trying to walk to the toilet. I feel like i weigh 50 stone and my throat is so dry I cant speak. Get to kitchen, take my morphine and make a coffee. Wait until it kicks in a bit and drag myself around for about 3 hours until I need to sleep again. My life is dictated by pain, it stops me sleeping at night so I feel slow and creaky when I wake up. I'm caring for a parent so now I need to get up twice a night. I wish humans didn't need sleep.

caringcarer · 29/08/2022 00:40

Still tired because I don't sleep well ever. Achy as 61 now and the backache is horrendous, especially first thing.

kimchifox · 29/08/2022 00:43

RiderGirl · 28/08/2022 22:22

Like I've been dug up.

😂 can't top that!

Manicpixidreamgirl · 29/08/2022 00:43

When my alarm wakes me up, I feel like I’m made of lead and my brain is fuzzy. Then I snooze, and snooze and snooze and feel worse each time.

When I wake up naturally before my alarm, I feel absolutely fine. It’s laziness that stops me getting out of bed and instead I choose to dose back off and wait for the alarm. Then I feel like lead and fuzzy…

MoistBandana · 29/08/2022 00:46

RiderGirl · 28/08/2022 22:22

Like I've been dug up.

This.

I'm up at 8am... I think it takes till around 10pm before I stop craving brains and wanting to bite people.

HippyLife · 29/08/2022 01:02

Shit 😂

vodkaredbullgirl · 29/08/2022 01:24

The walking dead 😆

midsomermurderess · 29/08/2022 01:51

Tired. I sleep dreadfully. I get up and think, 'God I'm tired'. Not a great start.🙂

onlythreenow · 29/08/2022 02:41

A bit stiff sometimes, but I generally leap out of bed and am ready to go! I've always been good in the mornings. Even when I had cats waking me several times during the night by banging on the door I always felt okay by the time I got up. I'm 63 btw.

LondonQueen · 29/08/2022 02:45

Like I've been asleep for 5 seconds, I always wake up feeling unrefreshed.

fugly1 · 29/08/2022 02:50

RiderGirl · 28/08/2022 22:22

Like I've been dug up.

This!

SpaghettiSquash · 29/08/2022 02:54

Headache and stiff and achey. I struggle to get up and downstairs. It used to take a few minutes for the stiffness to go and I'd be fine but it now lasts for much longer.

mackthepony · 29/08/2022 02:58

I do get shot quite a lot in my dreams though 🤔

^^

😂

SilverLiningPlaybook · 29/08/2022 04:11

Belatedeyebrows · 28/08/2022 23:08

@SilverLiningPlaybook

I have an air purifier and it really helps. Used to wake up with sore throat every morning but now now.
I've always been a morning person can't tell if it's helped improve my mood.

Op, I have woken up feeling sick and not hungry for the past 8 weeks. I've done a pregnancy test 4 times as I thought I could be pregnant but I'm not.
No idea why I feel sick and it does worry me. I've lost half a stone in thG time, too. Apart from that, I feel fine?!

Thats interesting. What make is it please?

SilverLiningPlaybook · 29/08/2022 04:14

I also go through phases ( like now) when I wake about four or five in the morning and then can’t sleep for two or three hours. I fall back asleep and then can’t get up. It’s horrible.

UnshakenNeedsStirring · 29/08/2022 07:33

Like I have been dragged through a hedge. Gagging for coffee, angry with the world