Things you've noticed that are the result of sleep deprivation.

[weeblueberry]

Suspect we've all got the 'cranky' and 'anxious' boxes ticked but is there anything odd that you've experienced through sleep deprivation?

My first slept well so I wasn't sure what to expect with proper lack of sleep but the most frustrating thing I've found is how often I get simple words mixed up. Even when it's not been a particularly bad night I often say the wrong word. Sometimes I don't even notice til someone brings it up...the worst is when I tell my toddler to do something and accidentally tell her the opposite (ie sit and get play doh rather than sit and get lunch). Poor wee mite is getting confused...

anybody else got bloodshot eyes? I woke up the other day after a dreadful night to find quite a large broken capillary attractively featuring in one eye.

What a depressing thread..... It's bad enough being sleep deprived without having to think about it's effects. I just try to ignore the 'side effects' of having a poor sleeper, which strangely makes me less aware of them! It's the long term damage I worry about.....

Clumsy, anxious, negative, forgetful.

What a depressing thread.....

Sorry Queen. I admit I was having a bit of a pity party last night when I started this because DD2 had been screaming for four hours by this point and I was a gibbering wreck. I understand why it might not seem helpful to bring it into the forefront of your thoughts but actually I think it's a bit of 'misery loves company' really. I've felt all of these things and it helps me a little to know that it's not just me that feels as though she's become a grumpy, clumsy, sallow faced, forgetful mum...

Sleep deprivation....not a method of war torture for nothing.

As well as destroying my looks, figure (fuels carb binges) and speech/though order and quality, it renders me basically incompetent in all areas of domestic and professional life.

Hope that helps

Oh, also nasty, short tempered and weepy. Can't forget those special joys...

weeblueberry are you me by any chance?
Lost 3.5 hours last night due to ds's high temperature but it could be for any number of stupid reasons tonight. Leap weeks seem to be a huge thing with him, wasn't so much for dd. It's a good job she came first because he wouldn't have arrived at all otherwise.

He's the sweetest two year old boy you can imagine but boy has he me wrecked! My friend is really struggling today because her ds was crying with tiredness from 6.30-9.30 when he fell asleep and stayed asleep all night, he sleeps about 14 hours out of every 24 usually, she can't grasp what I'm going through at all!

freebuttonbee, I'm in the middle of that sleep hell with DTs.

Feel hungover and fuzzy every morning, worst time is around 5am when I realise I have to get up at 7 with my toddler.

Ache all over (although this is probably from lugging twins and toddler around the place) and have no energy for talking or interacting with anyone after 6pm.

Haven't read a book in 7.5 months, since DTs were born.

Despair that it might never improve and dread when I think of going back to work in about 3 months. No idea how I'm going to do the 100 million things I do every day just to keep everyone fed and clothes plus do a job.

Yy to wanting to avoid people who just don't understand the crushing exhaustion of waking frequently every night to mind small people.

It's NOT the same as being out partying/going to the loo a lot when pregnant or feeling a bit tired because you watched too many episodes of OITNB on Netflix

Not having the energy to scratch. Eating like a savage. Looking like I had been dragged through a hedge backways. Consequently, not wanting to leave house. Not having energy

eh.......... woops....
not having energy to wash or put on makeup or do hair. Consequently, too ashamed to leave house. Consequent loss of confidence.

God everything said here rings true, hallucinatiins, getting words muddled, my bloody eye would twitch and drive me mad, I sm fat from eating sugar and carbs, my body aches - I feel so heavy. I'm clumsy, my sense of distance is fucked so I goto reach for things and they aren't there, im angry and bitter and resentful (oh your tired cos you only got 6hours sleep last night? You fucker!!) I feel like my personality has been sucked out of me because I just can't be bothered to sustain having one. It's survival. Sorry - Im a lone parent and Ds woke every hour and a half / 2 hours max until he was about 2.5. He's not much better now either!

I start to get paranoid, and it kicks in quickly. Just one night of bad sleep and I begin to feel that people are being dismissive of me, several nights of bad sleep and it becomes quite bad.

TBH it worries me a bit sometimes, it's probably not a great indicator of my overall mental health, but I can't change it either.

4 years sleep deprivation. They now sleep through 2 nights out of 3 but DS2 is up at 4.30 every fucking day.

My face has aged.
I have lost all muscle/tone/sporting ability
I eat crap and have put on weight
I have back to back headaches and migraines

And what is really bothering me today is that I am totally fucking up my career.

I should change jobs. I don't know how or what I could do. I don't even know what job I want.

Oh and another thing. Pretty crap bowel movements, resulting in IBS, bloating, the dreaded WIND, pain etc.

Irritability. Eye-stabbing fury. Rage. Impatience. Complete and utter loss of any remote eensy weensy sense of humour.

Highly sensitive to noise.

Hmmmmm.

Dry skin, I don't get how lack of sleep makes that happen?!

I also end up zoning out and staring into space a lot.

I thought about something, then I opened my browser to look it up, and in the time I spent opening the browser I had completely forgotten what it was. And I'm slurring these words in my head and I'm not even sure the first sentence made any sense.

So very tired.

Yes to all of these ! I now seem to have a habit of thinking I've bought things online , waiting for them then realising when they never arrive that I hadn't filled in card details. I also get the rage quite a lot over the tiniest things

Ha! Most of these! Also when people talk to me I just switch off. I can't even be bothered to listen as I just don't care. So bad. I'll have no mates soon

Irritable, impatient and anxious and I've aged too.

I want to get back to work after being off for 18mo. But just keeping how the fuck will I manage that with two under 3. But I feel I need it for my sanity!!!

picnic, I feel that way too - I think work would be great on some levels but the sheer organisation of getting 3 under 2.5 ready in the mornings might finish me off entirely.

Gah!

almost everything that has been mentioned here.

I can remember the day i was trying to ask my DH to make me a cup of tea. I tried to ask him to put the kettle on - and could not for the life of me remember the word 'kettle'. I kept saying 'the thing. in the kitchen. the er...to boil water'....and then burst into tears. I felt utterly foolish.

DS is nearly 3. I was so sleep deprived for 18 months I barely went out as we live rurally and needed to drive. Wasn't safe to, so I missed out on toddler groups and NCT etc and as a result have no bloody friends or support system.
I've aged and look awful.
My immune system has been shot (better this winter as I have worked at building it up) and I started getting urticaria weekly because my body was in crisis.

Weepy. Just burst into tears when 10 month old with cold wouldn't take calpol. I don't know why I'm bothering- she's going to wake every 45 minutes regardless.
Totally get the words issue too. And i get headaches. And a kind of over anxious reaction to the simplest of problems. Apart from that, the binging on junk food, resenting anyone who gets sleep and the aging about 10 years I'm all good.

iamsanta I'd prefer you're forgetting to buy better than the opposite! Buying in dead of night & trkberinh the following dsy