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If you bounce out of bed at 6/6.30....

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Bemyclementine · 11/10/2023 15:00

What time do you go to bed? How do you manage if you have any health conditions?

I'm exhausted. Struggle every morning. Have had a bad habit if stating up roo late (stress related, and also child free time, single parent).

But even with going to bed earlier I'm still exhausted. Every morning my alarms goes off at 6.30 and most days I struggle out if bed an hour later. And rush. And be late.

To add, I have anaemia and hypothyroidism. I'm also overweight.

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Nothingbuttheglory · 11/10/2023 20:51

In bed by 10, lights out 10.30.

It took 3 bloody years to get my levothyroxine dose right, but it changed my life completely. When I'm undermedicated, it doesn't matter if I have 3 hours sleep or 11, I still feel like shit. And I was too exhausted to exercise, and craved high-sugar junk in a fruitless search for energy.

Getting my meds sorted has allowed me to make those changes.

TSH over 2.5 means I don't feel OK, no matter what reference range the GP likes.

I do take iron, magnesium and vit D as well.

soupweather · 11/10/2023 20:51

I have autoimmune conditions. Bed by 10 or 10.30 at the very latest. I wake naturally between 5.30 and 6. I do like to go back to bed with a coffee for an hour and just read. It’s my hour before getting the DC up for school etc. I work full time and I am utterly exhausted by the weekend.

KnitFastDieWarm · 11/10/2023 20:59

i’m a habitual night owl but sleeping with my curtains open has absolutely transformed mornings for me - i now wake up gradually with the sun and feel more refreshed, rather than being shocked awake in a dark room by a blaring alarm 😁

AnotherCountryMummy · 11/10/2023 21:02

In bed by about 9.30, aiming for lights off at 10am.

No coffee in the afternoon. Fresh air walk every day.

Try and limit blue light in the evenings.

rockingbird · 11/10/2023 21:04

I tend to be in bed by 10.30pm up at 5.45 Monday - Friday sometimes earlier. I'm definitely an early bird and function well first thing.. evenings intend to shut down 😆 weekends I try to lie in a little but still up by 6.30/7

Daveismyhero · 11/10/2023 21:06

I do. I also have anaemia and currently 30 weeks pregnant.
I go to bed at 10, no phone or anything. I have a sunrise alarm clock that slowly starts at about 5.30 and goes off properly at 5.50 and I can get straight out of bed
I must say though I've always been a morning person and I really struggle to stay up late. I think it just depends on you as an individual!

daffodilandtulip · 11/10/2023 21:06

Bed around 11pm. Terrible night's sleep, woken several times by various neighbours. Alarm for 6:15am. Sometimes I feel grand and sometimes I'm a mess.

NoWordForFluffy · 11/10/2023 21:08

No bouncing overly, but my alarm goes off at 5.50 and I'm up within 5 minutes of that. I have an awful habit of staying up til 11 which I need to knock on the head!

givemeasunnyday · 11/10/2023 21:38

I usually go to sleep around 10.30 - 11 pm. If I go to sleep any earlier then I wake far too early, raring to go!

I've always been like this - 64 now.

EarringsandLipstick · 11/10/2023 22:13

@awaynboilyurheid

I feel your pain and it’s well documented the mornings are the hardest, till the medication slowly kicks in.

What do you mean?

That's not how thyroxine works? That it 'kicks in' in the mornings?

As a nurse you obviously understand that thyroxine is simply replacing what the body should itself produce & once controlled, it works well to alleviate symptoms & is not a about a medication kicking in each day?

I agree there's no tiredness like it - I've had hypothyroidism for more than 20 years buy wonder what research you mention here as 'well-documented'?

mynameisnotmichaelcaine · 11/10/2023 22:17

I have always been a naturally early riser. Usually in bed by 10, lights out at 10:30. Up at 6 so I can exercise before work. Have MS, but it does not impact my day to day living too much.

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Bemyclementine · 11/10/2023 22:53

To all those replies suggesting a GP check fir thyroid levels, I have been trying for months to get a blood test. It's getting ridiculous. I will keep trying.

I take thyroxine, and iron. I'll admit I'm nit always on top of the iron (can't take it with thyroxine and makes me nauseous).

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Bemyclementine · 11/10/2023 22:53

Amazed at how early sone go to bed!! Dc were shovelled into bed at 9pm tonight.

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Bemyclementine · 11/10/2023 23:04

@buckingmad I also have horses to sort, but it doesn't take me long, I've got ut diwn to a fine art. It's the pesky children that take all the time up in the mornings.

That being said, I used to easily get up at 5.30 to walk dogs and do horses before work. Pre DC, and pre thyroid problem.

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2023shady · 11/10/2023 23:08

I have hashimotos as well as other medical issues and I don't think I've ever bounced out of bed in my life Grin
Apparently as a toddler I would sleep through anything and tell my mum to go away if she tried to wake me up...

2023shady · 11/10/2023 23:10

Oh and I take a multi vitamin, then separate vitamin d, iron and folate as low in all of them
My TSH is around 2 but I don't have the energy to fight for another levo increase (on 100mcg)

Lotsofworries · 11/10/2023 23:10

It's not on for the GP to be refusing to do a thyroid panel OP, poor you. What's their reasoning?

What about asking GP for liquid iron, or a transfusion if your anaemia is very severe? Or I sometimes take Spatone for a while if my stomach is sore from the tablets.

If your GP insists on being a dick about it, you could pay for your own tests. Medichecks is a company I've heard recommended, they do a full TFT with antibodies for £65. It might be worth it to know where you stand and have some evidence for your GP.

PlipPlopChoo · 11/10/2023 23:25

Often up at 6:30 but like buggery do I bounce. More like drag myself downstairs like a neanderthal and make haste for a cup of coffee.

It probably does not help that I stay up late until midnight for no reason. Sometimes if I am lucky I will (unintentionally) fall asleep on the sofa and get a good 10 hours kip.

TopazQuartz · 11/10/2023 23:31

Haven't read all the comments, sorry if you already know this but if you are hypothyroid, anaemia often follows. If you are overweight too that might be because your thyroid is not optimally treated.

Optimal treatment will often reverse anaemia and weight gain.

I can't wake up easily in the morning (I'm hypothyroid) it's very hard for me, I'm like a zombie, but I am alert at night. I must try to get to bed earlier. A relative who's hypothyroid takes her medicene at night (most in the morning) and she jumps out of bed, so who knows whether that has an effect. I think it's supposed to be taken in the morning though.

Lotsofworries · 11/10/2023 23:32

Lotsofworries · 11/10/2023 23:10

It's not on for the GP to be refusing to do a thyroid panel OP, poor you. What's their reasoning?

What about asking GP for liquid iron, or a transfusion if your anaemia is very severe? Or I sometimes take Spatone for a while if my stomach is sore from the tablets.

If your GP insists on being a dick about it, you could pay for your own tests. Medichecks is a company I've heard recommended, they do a full TFT with antibodies for £65. It might be worth it to know where you stand and have some evidence for your GP.

@Bemyclementine I meant infusion here, not transfusion. Can't seem to edit my post.

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Bemyclementine · 12/10/2023 06:55

Thanks all so much. I used to meed total datkness/silence to sleep. Anything would wake me and I' couldn't just drop off. Needed blackout blinds in summer. This week I've put the "big light" on when my alarm goes off and still falling straight back to sleep.

The gp isn't refusing a blood test, it's that I can't get a bloody appointment. I'm going to keep trying. I phone daily for several days, then give up for a bit before phoning daily again.

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Bemyclementine · 12/10/2023 06:56

I did have an infusion when pregnant a couple of times, actually the tiredness I feel currently is on par with early pregnancy exhaustion.

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FormerlyPathologicallyHappy · 12/10/2023 06:56

No bloody wonder you can’t get up with thyroid and anaemia. Take your iron last thing at night, I take 2 x 220mg and I’m not even anaemic I just have heavy periods.

I have a cheap lumie alarm that uses light to wake you up.

MyCircumference · 12/10/2023 06:58

i dont bounce but my alarm is either 6 or 6.15 and i get up then, no snooze.
mostly bed 1030

crumblycrust · 12/10/2023 06:58

Taking iron with orange juice or vit c rich foods/fruits could make you less nauseous, plus increase iron absorption and is also tastier