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

[MonsterMunchforbreakfast]

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.

I have narcolepsy. Trying to get up is really difficult. I’m constantly being sucked back into my dreams.
It takes 40 minutes of snoozing the alarm and fighting to get out of bed.

I'm the same. I woke up in almost full panic attack mode this morning. Nothing worse than waking with a feeling there is an imminent disaster just around the corner. I'm sat here 2 hours later still feeling rough.

Did you go through the NHS to discover this? I wouldn't be able to afford anything private.

What is the treatment?

I do worry about stroke risk, strokes run on my maternal side of the family and as an aura migraine sufferer I am already at slightly higher than average risk of stroke.

I am very much the same. By the evening I am like a completely different person, I have considered finding work in the evenings so I can just rot all day and try to come round.

Is there anything you can do about your H's alarm? I'm good in the mornings - usually just wake up naturally (today it was 6am) and feel fine, but even I struggle when I'm woken by an alarm.

5.30 is so early! I'd feel crap too if I wasn't ready to wake.

And also you say you feel much better in the evenings - well I feel much better in the mornings. I know that if I need to get stuff done, it's in the mornings. I'm fine going out in the evening, but I find cleaning, house jobs, admin etc, much more difficult in the evenings. So maybe there is an element of you being more of an evening person?

Interestingly but not surprising a quick google tells me that more women than men struggle with their sleep and/or getting out of bed in the mornings. I am certain our hormones must play a significant part in this.

DH can sleep for 6 hours or less and still spring out of bed. During the winter months he is on call as part of his job and is often called out in the early hours, will work for 4 hours, back to sleep for a couple of hours and can still get out of bed and will be perky all day. That pattern would destroy me.

Sadly not, he leaves for work very early. Hopefully once the dc leave home I can secure myself a different room to sleep in.

I am definitely a later day person.

Ask your GP for a blood test also to check your TTG / EMA levels but don’t cut gluten out of your diet before this or you could risk false negative results x

Bag of shit every single day. Its shit

I cant ever sleep and I have RA which is always shit in a morning.

I had gastroscope with biopsy two weeks ago to check for coeliac so no need for bloods luckily. Still awaiting the results.

I spring out of bed even though I feel like a bag of shite. I need my coffeine and nicotine dose so very motivated.

Interesting discussion. I'm straight up (early, by 6am) and broadly fine, although I sleep better if I'm not at work the next day for some reason and go through periods of very early waking. My DH is a slower starter. I have grown-up stepchildren who are more like their dad.

But my stepdaughter used to have a friend to stay who was a lovely girl generally, but absolutely vile in the morning for about three hours after rising. Couldn't talk, wouldn't interact in any way. She was also very very hard to wake. We once had an 8am flight with both kids and a couple of their friends including this one. I honestly thought we'd miss the flight and lose our holiday. Even a wet flannel didn't do it. I'm 100% sure she couldn't help it.

Difficult to get up in the Winter.

Summer is easier.

I had this problem until my under active thyroid was identified and I was put on treatment.