If you’ve been horribly sleep deprived..

[Wahhh]

Can you tell me how it made you feel? And how quickly you recovered when it was over? I have the strangest feeling in my head all the time, almost a weakness/dizziness but also a tight feeling. Assuming it’s just overtiredness as I did get some bloods run to check for anything else

My youngest didn’t sleep for more than two hours at a stretch until his third birthday. Then he slept beautifully. I recovered very quickly once I started sleeping.

I had a similar sensation to the one you’re describing. Are your glands up on the back of your neck or skull base? Do you have other symptoms? I ended up with parvovirus when DC3 was 21 months. My head felt fuzzy, dizzy, swollen. I had other symptoms too but it was the sensation in my head that really got to me. I recovered after 8 months ( the acute symptoms took about 3 months to go away).

Drink plenty of water. Lack of sleep can, without any virus whatsoever, throw you into a place of migraines and headaches. I felt soooo unwell during those 3 years of not sleeping.
Hydrate!
And it’ll be interesting to see what your blood test shows.

I don’t think hmmm glands are up. Parvovirus sounds scary! My bloods were all fine actually. I am breastfeeding and do realise oftennot drinking enough so good tip thank you

I think sleep deprivation just makes you feel awful. The one thing I feel is as if all the hydration and lipids are sucked out of me. It’s a terrible feeling. And I don’t like drinking water. But if you can keep in sipping lemon waster we, it might ease the tension in your head. You poor thing! May you be blessed with a champion sleeper soon!

Oh and get a B-vitamin complex. A B-50 complex will really help!

Oh my heavens! My typos!!! Lemon waster we?
Lemon water!
I still type like I’m sleep deprived!

I honestly thought I had a horrendous illness I felt that poorly, every fibre in my body felt tight and ached, I would feel dizzy and very sick and I had no energy at all EVER. My little ones been sleeping through about 6 months he's just turned three and started having night terrors so I'm back to being up twice a night but I can handle it this time around as he was getting up A lot more than that!

I fainted a few times and felt very anaemic, I wasn't. Also had tremors in my fingers and would space out mid conversation/task. Anxiety also went through the roof, but I couldn't be bothered to do anything about it, was too tired.
Cleared up after a week of 8pm bedtimes, (still with night wakings) and having contraceptive implant removed. Also took spatone as felt so anaemic (wasn't though).

It amazes me how 1 week of superb sleep can undo months, even years of sleep deprivation.

Ah yes whyme twice would be lovely! I wake up feeling as tired as I was falling asleep which is why I went to get bloods done as I was also convinced I was anaemic but no. Good to hear it’s a quick recovery!

I was extremely jumpy

Every thing made me jump out of my skin

I was also extremely emotional

It was awful

I felt constantly on edge, very jumpy, cried at the drop of a hat.

Lots and lots of headaches.

Very spaced out.

Generally very achy.

Put on weight as I was eating constantly to try and pick myself up using snacks and sugar.

I bumped the car quite a few times.

I felt so much better within maybe a week maximum of much much better sleep.

When things were awful, DH and I would take them in turns on a weekend night to do all night wakings, so I would have one guaranteed wonderful night of sleep each week. I found that six hours of uninterrupted sleep could keep me going. It helped that we had a spare room, and that it was on a different floor. I know that you’re breastfeeding, but this is what really helped make a difference in the short term for me. A much much bigger bed made the difference in the long term, when we were at absolutely breaking point, as DS just came into bed with us when we woke in the middle of the night and we all slept.

that feeling on waking after another crappy night where you want to cry as you just can’t summon any energy for the coming day! Exhaustion in my bones, stomach, other worldly feeling in head and carb loading all day. Dc2 has been a horrible sleeper and I hate those Facebook memes telling you you’ll miss them waking up in the night as them leaving home is the hardest bit of parenting 😂

Sick, fragile, confused, headaches, slightly manic at times.

I was convinced I had stomach cancer for a while as it hurt daily, until I went on holiday without the dc and had 5 nights of good sleep and feeling disappeared

Horrific.

Sick, faint, dizzy.

Depressed.

At one point, I fantasised about crashing my car just so I could spend the night in hospital and get some sleep.

Cold a lot. Really anxious. Weird drunk-like feeling in my arms and legs like they didn’t quite belong to me.

There’s a great line in Lord of the Rings where Bilbo Baggins describes himself as feeling “stretched thin, like butter scraped over too much bread”. That’s exactly how I felt.

My DD has never been a good sleeper, some nights id put her to bed she would go to sleep then as soon as my head hit the pillow she would be up for the night!!

I cry when I am exhausted, cant help it just feel so drained and emotional 😂 xx

Jet lagged (at least I assume that's how jet lag feels). My perception of distance and space goes to pot, my head doesn't belong to me and my mouth doesn't seem to work properly.

(Been a shift worker for years, doing nights and days sometimes with very little recovery time between nights and days)

What everyone else says. DS is 21 months (nearly) and i’ve not had a decent night once. It really sucks. He’s not as bad as he used to be but I dread that first wake up as I know it’s coming and i can’t relax. I often feel jumpy, very emotional, eat loads, knot in my chest, weak, sometimes dizzy.

In the horrific early weeks I was so tired I thought DH was Dan Humphrey from Gossip Girl. As you can maybe tell i’ll be stopping at one child.

It’s honestly making me feel like “what’s the point” I’m miserable. I forget things, I can’t concentrate. I’m awful to be around. If it was up to me I wouldn’t go out. I sometimes feel like I’m not in my own body.

I had an awful time with my second child, breastfeeding wasn’t going well, he had reflux and refused a bottle. He rarely slept, day or night, was constantly unsettled, spent hours awake in the night, he’d drop off for half an hour and wake again crying, I’d often fall asleep with him on my chest and wake up and panic I had rolled onto him, had headaches, terrible memory, struggles forming sentences without pausing, I also nearly crashed my car. Sleep deprivation is horrendous and it sent me into a depression. When things eventually got better everything around me got better and it was a huge relief. Don’t be afraid to ask for help, I didn’t have any help and I’m sure if i would have had help, it would have made things easier.

You poor thing! I felt wobbly and weak all the time, and kind of cold. I think my metabolism was just through the floor! Constant tight headache and dry eyes. Horrible feeling, especially when it’s Long term.

Seconding what others have said about it going really really quickly if you start getting decent sleep. Headache and dry eyes gone after one decent night! Weirdly I felt more tired over the next few days as it was like my body realised it could now ask for sleep! But after a couple of days I felt like my pre-DD self again! I realised I’d forgotten how good that could feel.

Hope you don’t have to wait too long for your decent sleep

I'm an awful insomniac and currently my sleep is the worst it's ever been. I feel like I've got flu at the moment-achey, temperature up and down, bloated, and headachey. And quite low in mood. The brain fog is the worst-can't concentrate on anything. I'm a joy to be around at the moment .
Sleep deprivation is the worst. I hope your little obliges soon so you can get some kip. The good news is that you can catch up on sleep deficit quite quickly (when you get the chance!) and feel better (literally) overnight!

Sick and faint.
Headaches.
Dizziness.

Took about 2 nights sleep to start feeling slightly more human, but a good week or so to fully catch up.

I used to feel empty, weak, heavy and sick. It felt like eating something would help but it didn't. I still felt nauseous. I started to dread the night because It was like torture.

Like I’d a hangover, permanently hungry often feeling sick, headaches general aches. I catch every bug that going and wake up exhausted. When it’s been really bad I cry a lot and can’t actually order thoughts in my mind to complete tasks.