Is anyone else unable to function at all if they're tired?

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I'm just shit at "managing" on less than 7 hours of sleep. If I get woken up or have a bad night, then I can't DO anything the next day.

I am dozy, grumpy and clumsy....other people seem to manage! WHy can't I?

The carb craving is a symptom of tiredness and really doesn't help when you give in to it, though you do get a short term mood lift. Well I do.

I cry. I lose my cars keys in my pocket- cry. Some cyclist swine swears at me while I'm walking my dog- cry. Go out without my purse which is actually in my bag after all- cry. Hear a sad song or a sentimental advert- cry buckets.

I need a lot of sleep too, a full eight hours if life is running smoothly. When I'm stressed I need a whole lot more. Really stressed and I can have a two hour mid afternoon nap, then still be asleep at 9.15! Awake btn 5am and 6 am, though. And I hate my husband people who can sleep in in the mornings!

I have a 3 month baby and get 3 hours sleep then feed then 2hours then feed then 1 hour before my other 2 wake at 0700 so I totally get the absolutely shattered feeling, and I don't drink tea or coffee!

If I'm not to be totally grumpy with the kids I have to get in the shower straightaway, then I make sure I've not skipped breakfast then getting outside as early as possible - walking to school/shops
When I get back in I usually have my 1 Diet Coke break of the day at 1030 then feel more able to tackle the trail of devastation my husband the children have left behind from the morning madness!

Loup I have just drunk my first glass of turmeric lemonade and will report back on effects. I used Manuka honey as that's what I had. It didn't taste half as bad as I thought actually, but like a dodgy fizzy Chai

Thanks for sharing the recipe, let's hope it perks me up a bit!

Oh and if anyone else is thinking of trying it and has a Makro card or similar, I got a massive 500g tub of turmeric for £3.25!

I can't manage on lack of sleep either. I may come across as coping but it quickly messes with my head and stops me functioning. A power nap at lunchtime sometimes helps.

I can't cope either.
When dd was a baby and a terrible sleeper i had a permanent headache. I'd also walk into doorways, go downstairs sat on my bum and drop stuff. I lost too much weight and looked sickly and scrawny with gigantic 'feeding boobs'
I didn't drive for over a year, I just wasn't safe.

I don't have kids, but a mix of insomnia and the exhaustion that comes with anxiety and depression and being in a state of panic all day at work means after a full working week I am wrecked. Had a bath first thing today to try to relax, only remembered to shave one leg. I become more and more forgetful as the days go on then I crash on the weekend. Think I need to hand in my notice!

I think you adjust. I often had 5/6 hours for 17 years (son with severe disabilities) & only really struggled to function the next day if it went below 4 hours.

My son's care package changed this year and in doing so gave me more sleep. I have been repeatedly ill since that started. This Christmas was the first time in over 17 years that I was able to have lie ins. I had more sleep than I had for years & felt bloody awful - really lethargic & heavy & like I was wading through thick treacle - I was pleased when the early mornings started again.

So I think if it goes on long enough you just adjust - and then can't cope with more sleep.

I just power on with caffeine

Aibu

Lindt dark mint chocolate dipped in a double shot latte

Get some vit d supplement down ya, helped me loads. No more brain fog

Welsh hope it worked! I do feel bit bad recommending something so grim but it really does work for me - hoping its not just me, don't want to be lynched!!!

Tumeric lenonade sounds awesome! I'm definitely going to try that, thanks for the recipe.
I have ME/Cfs and no matter how many hours I sleep I never ever wake feeling refreshed. One of the odd things with ME is that you're totally exhausted, slurring, unable to coordinate etc but can't get to sleep at night, during the day is more successful.
I have been sleeping a bit better recently but still struggle to get to sleep before 1-2 am but even on the rare night I do go to sleep earlier I still feel as crap.
I live on caffeine. There are some days I can't even get myself dressed and other days I simply can't get out of bed. I can't remember the last time I felt refreshed

Am definitely trying that Loup
I work permanent nights, I sleep better in the day than I do on my nights off, guess I must be vampiric

Blueberry you're welcome, I don't work nights but I sleep better in the day too, not that I get the chance with early rising DS though

I can stay going for a time but then I crash. Emotional tired shaky then need a good 8 hours and I get back up and stay going again for another few weeeks.

Having just finished bf my 3 rd child (15 months ) - who has been sick since Christmas .... I have a theory that whatever hormones in your system you have with pregnancy and bf must give you some sort of protection in the early days .... just my crazy theory to get myself through maybe :).

Thing is I know from my older children that they sleep, that you get your life / sleep/ body back eventually (albeit it with a bit of time work exercise and maybe a form of sleep training if a lo is involved )

I don't. Like other have said, I get clumsy, shouty and stutter. My memory is so bad I don't even remember my lists. I'm a lp so can never catch up on sleep.

When I go to work tired it's basically presenteeism, I make a load of mistakes first thing and send the rest of the day untangling them . Luckily I can walk to work so no one will get hurt.

Was so tired yesterday I called in sick. Yes, I know this basically a Mumsnet crime but I would honestly have been unable to function.

I'm a chronic imsomniac (since primary school!) and go through bad patches every few months. Went and got a prescription filled for Temazepam during my day off, had a good sleep last night (after 2 tablets) and was back functioning at 100% at work today.

I go into Autopilot, I just kind of go about my day in a bit of a daze. My DD has always been a shit sleeper, so am used to F all sleep now.. sort of...

She's poorly at the moment so I was up most of last night, and currently waiting for my break so I can get a large dose of caffeine in the hope that my head won't suddenly hit the desk

I go into Autopilot, I just kind of go about my day in a bit of a daze. My DD has always been a shit sleeper, so am used to F all sleep now.. sort of...

She's poorly at the moment so I was up most of last night, and currently waiting for my break so I can get a large dose of caffeine in the hope that my head won't suddenly hit the desk

I just continue anyway. I've got used to it. I have a medical condition, since birth. I'm tired all the time, even if I sleep a lot. I just don't seem to get 'regenerated'. I just carry on. I wouldn't call in sick, I would go to work. I may not be at my best, but its better than nothing.

'Sleep deprivation' is very serious though. I don't think GP's etc show it the respect it deserves.
Remember that sleep deprivation is a used technique in torture. They used to use it at Auschwitz.

When ds2 was born, for many months, he cried on and off, every night, for most of the night. I slept little. Maybe 2 hours. I had to sleep in the day. I couldn't function. I was very bad then.

Most people need quite a few hours sleep to be able to function.

I have Pernicious Anaemia, Iron Deficient Anaemia, severe lack of Vitamin D and an Underactive Thyroid and being exhausted is my natural state

It's awful, some days I can barely get my head off the pillow, I work a couple of evenings a week in my local shop, mainly behind the till as the more manual labour is beyond me, but sometimes I really struggle.

On my days off I sleep a lot, I didn't get up til 3.30pm today, and on the days I do work I'm unable to do anything else as it's just too much, It's relentless and I hate it, people think I'm exaggerating when I say I'm tired, they don't get it. There's also the confusion, memory loss and waking up with horrendous leg cramps to deal with, I've suffered with severe depression as well, and am still on medication for that

I just want to feel half normal again but that is never going to happen!

I find that even if I'm at a tired-but-still-functioning level (if, say, I've gone to bed at 12.30 or 1am rather than 11.30) my concentration and organisational skills, never the world's best, go way downhill. I get so much more easily distracted when I'm tired.