How do you feel when you wake up? Do you spring out of bed or feel like a bag of shite, or somewhere inbetween?

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DH's alarm goes off around 5.30am. He never presses snooze, as soon as it goes off he's awake and alert, he leaps out of bed and he's good for the day ahead.

I have never been a great riser, from as early as young childhood I have found getting up to be a mammoth task (I do love sleep and love my bed so very much). I feel deep in slumber when my alarm goes off at 6.45am. I have to stand under a hot shower for ages just to feel any resemblance of a human being and even then it takes me several hours to come round. I often feel achy, nasally and slightly headache/woolly headed and my body feels anything but awake.

I do have some chronic health issues. Nothing serious but my decades long IBS means an uncomfortable tummy and frequent toilet trips first thing. I also have endometriosis and adenomyosis which will often flare up and perimenopause definitely isn't helping the issue. I am also going to look into joint hypermobility.

I keep my bedroom at a comfortable temperature, the mattress is fine and we also have a comfy topper. I eat well, I don't drink any alcohol, walk lots and wind down every night with the Calm app yet I always feel like a bag of shite when I wake up and I have no idea what more I can do to feel better. I won't start work until later as I always feel so rough for the first few hours of waking.

Does anyone else feel like this? Have you been able to improve things? I would love to be able to enjoy my mornings more moving forward.

Bag of shite here. I have CFS, overactive bladder which has me up 3 times a night and bouts of insomnia which all make me feel like shite. I'll have a crap night's sleep then be fast asleep when the alarm goes off. I have to drag myself out of bed and sometimes the brain fog is awful. Then I'll start to feel a bit better in the afternoon after lunch. I'm perpetually tired bit luckily I don't have kids to contend with.

If I can wake up naturally I feel fine - this would be about 8am. Anytime before that I need an alarm and it feels like the middle of the night. Takes at least an hour to feel human. Unfortunately I need to wake up about 6.30 on weekdays so generally feel like a zombie for the first hour or so.

I’m most definitely not a morning person…

One year, after returning from to the UK from a trip to Australia, for a few days I was WIDE AWAKE first thing in the morning - it was an amazing feeling!

I mostly feel like shit when I wake up. Especially if I have been awake for a time in the night. Then I wake up feeling hungover, even if I've not had any booze. Perimenopause was kicking my backside for a while, HRT is helping but I've always been a crap sleeper. I've also lost the ability to have a long lie thanks to 2 children who where shit sleepers too. I wake at 6am feeling bad but can't get back to sleep 😩

As a fellow hot feet sufferer, I have one of these chillmax pillows. I keep it at the bottom of my bed and it really helps cool my feet down, even if the rest of my body is too hot.
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Have you looked into a sunrise alarm clock? I think they gradually get brighter until you have the equivalent of bright sunlight blasting in your face by the time the alarm goes off. No idea whether they work, but I've read about them for SAD sufferers at this time of year.

It absolutely varies depending on how well I’ve slept and whether I’m awoken at the right or wrong time in my sleep cycle. Sometimes I spring out of bed, sometimes it takes me two hours and several coffees to feel anywhere near normal. Coffee and a shower and fresh air helps quickly though, if I crawl to the sofa in a sleepy stupor it can take me hours to feel better.

I wouldn't say I spring out but I have no issues getting up and I don't need caffiene to feel awake. I also don't need to nap, feel tired during the day or doze off on the sofa. The only time any of those things ever happen I will have slept very badly (I used to nap after big nights out but I don't drink to excess anymore so it is a pretty rare occurence).

My natural waking time is quite early, 4.30 to 5am. I'm not a great sleeper so its always been like this, I don't know any different. But yes I'm ready to go once I wake up. DH on the other hand struggles and will keep snoozing until he absolutely has to get up.

I'm definitely at my best in the morning.

I find it much easier to spring out of bed when the mornings are light. I love seeing the sun rising, it makes me feel happy and ready for the day. I’m finding these dreary and dark winter mornings make me want to stay in bed longer. My alarm goes off at 6.30am but I snooze it till 7ish.

Bag of shite here

I read something once and it said that some people drag their body through life with them and that hit home, that's how I feel.
I drag myself out of bed full of aches and pains (always had a bad back one way or another).
I start being woke up from around 4am, the dog starts walking around, my husband starts snoring louder and I am a light sleeper. Sometimes I sleep on and off until I have to get up at 7.30 and sometimes i realise i have been trying to get back to sleep for 3 hours and go on the couch upset and try to get myself into a positive headspace for the day.

I try not to give it too much thought and attention because it gets to me. I probably have around 6 hours most nights which I know isn't bad but that's across around 10 hours so a good 4 hours of unsucessfully trying to sleep.

I‘m a massive night owl and genuinely plan a lot of my life/work around being able to get up at 8/9am rather than as early as many people! Same as some other posters, I could be in bed at 9pm and if I’m up at 7am I’ll feel rubbish, but if I slept at 3am and woke at 9am I’d be fine. Doesn’t make sense but I guess natural body clocks?! I also feel better if I snooze my alarm - ideally for 20 mins. When I get up too early I’ll have a headache I can’t shake and my body just hurts. Frustrating as I’d love to be an early riser!

Big ol' bag of shite here, most of the time! Definitely never bouncing out of bed.

I have insomnia so if / when I manage any sleep I always feel like shit in the morning. Often go to work on a couple of hours sleep.
Getting up is the worst part of the day ☹️
I so wish I could be a morning person , if I ever do get up early I feel so good and productive.

I’ve never been one to spring out of bed ever.

Rough bag o shite here !! 🤣and over the years I just realised it’s really low blood pressure.
I walk up and down the stairs just to get my BP up, it works quicker than coffee

Mornings are my worst time of day. I wake feeling anxious, depressed especially in the winter. I am much better as the day goes on.

Somewhere inbetween. Mornings are better when I’ve had more sleep, exercised regularly in preceding days and drank enough water. Stretching before bed also helps with aches etc.

Always wake up feeling like a sack of cold shit. Since I was a child. Groggy, tired, anxious, grumpy.

Poor sleep makes it worse, but even when I sleep well I don’t feel great. Also live pretty healthily, don’t drink, meditate etc…no difference.

I have come to accept it. I just ignore my brain as best I can and stay on autopilot, going through my morning routine until the shitty feeling subsides (requires at least an hour and a hot shower, coffee & water and fresh air to shake it off).

Middle age h as added aches and pains to the morning shitshow. Fun times! 🤪

You might both have it.
Nobody has ever noticed anything amiss in my sleep but the sleep study showed I have 40 episodes per hour. I have a woolly head rather than a headache (definitely in the bag of shite category pretreatment).
Untreated it raises your stroke risk hugely.

I wake up, check the time. Either rejoice in having more time left or curse the day. In Thursday and Sunday morning I imagine for a couple if minutes that I’ve won the lottery and can buy my way out of my many burdens.
I swallow all dreams if escape and accept another days grind.
etc etc

This is me too. I am vile in the mornings, always have been. I also have a DP that's awake and happy immediately on waking, and it's caused many an argument over the years.

Just leave me alone for an hour, and honestly I'm fine. But when you know that, and you still peck my head when I've just opened my fucking eyes... Beware.

I can’t get out of bed. Never could. I’ve arranged my life so that everything starts late because I can’t cope with mornings. I’m depressed every morning. Usually ok in the afternoon. In a good mood most evenings.

It can vary here, and sometimes seems a little perverse. I aim for seven hours sleep but often wake up, feeling OK, after 4 - 5 hours. I usually make myself go back to sleep, and will then wake up at the seven hour mark feeling very tired.

It seems the prescribed 7 - 8 hours sleep always makes me wake up feeling tired. But I soon shake out of it and get on with the day.

Whereas if I only get 4 or 5 hours I will often wake up feeling refreshed, but be hit with heavy tiredness again within a few hours.

I'm the same, I always say that I feel as though I am wading through wet concrete most days, perimenopause has made that feeling even worse.