Anyone else just physically exhausted?

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I go to bed early enough, lights out by 10 or 10.30pm but I’m really struggling to just get up in the mornings. I’m WFH so I set the alarm for 7 or 7.30am to get the DC ready for home school but find myself just wanting to lay in bed and sometimes unable to open my eyes - it’s like I’ve been drugged! At the weekend I’m sleeping for 10 or 11 hours.
I’m desperately trying to stick to a routine and DC are always washed and dressed and ready for online learning at 9 and the same for me and DH with WFH.
I’m also exhausted during the day for absolutely no reason. I do take some supplements; vitamin D3 and a Berocca daily.
In normal times I’m up at 5am three days a week (I work three days a week) and on the train to work at 7am. Home by 5.30pm and not half as tired as I am at the moment.
Maybe it’s just the sheer strain of the pandemic and the time of year, making me slightly depressed.

Maybe it’s just the sheer strain of the pandemic and the time of year, making me slightly depressed.

Op, I think this the key.

I'm overall doing better in this lockdown than I was last time.

I've a good exercise & home routine, into wfh now, managing (just) with home schooling for 3 kids.

BUT

It's exhausting! I am running at full tilt all the time. I bet you're the same. I'm working full-time. I'm a single parent. My job is demanding (but I mostly love it). I'm desperately trying (and mostly failing) to progress legal matters relating to my divorce.

Some days I think I'm doing great! But I'll have a day where I'm nearly sick with tiredness the day after. I go to bed early & get up early to exercise.

But I've realised there are almost zero moments of downtime. I don't mean relaxing in a deliberate way. But the 'lost' moments where you make a cuppa in work or have a chat with a colleague. The moments on the way to work or school. An official lunch break.

Most of us are double-jobbing. All the spare minutes are crowded with home stuff, kids' stuff, chores, getting setting up for next day's work or school day.

I don't think we realise how important those interludes are, that happen naturally, usually.

I've no great advice, other than to recognise it & do your best!

(And yeah, double checking iron / thyroid no harm either!)

Yep. I'm the same bed and wake is the same time but I feel my body is a dead weight on the bed in the mornings.
The other weekend I said to DH about it. He said he's have the sat off (they pick and choose whther to work a weekend) he got up with the kids. I said I'll be up in an hr or so. I woke at 2pm!
And was ready for bed by 9pm.

yes, I need a nap in the afternoon or I get really tired and ratty - it feels as if I'm 90!

I can empathise feel same every days same.
Home school battle wake kids
Amuses toddler
Cook , clean laundry and shop.
I'm exhausted feel constantly behind.
Tired emotional.
Keep waking 3am.
Even done pregnancy test negative
Trying to eat healthier and take dog longer walks which us helping a little.
Struggle concentrate watch a film.
Cut back on news consumption.

Hope you feeling better soon.

Thanks everyone I don’t feel poorly per se, just tired and pockets of exhaustion just seem to hit me in the middle of the day, as well as not wanting to get up in the morning. I think @EarringsandLipstick has nailed it to be honest - it’s the constant monotony and never getting a proper break. The more I think about it, work was my break from being a ‘constantly on’ mum.
To the poster who asked; I haven’t officially had Covid but suspect I may have had it back in February, when I was quite poorly (I commute into London for work so the chances of picking it up would have been quite high). Obviously there were no tests back then though.