How does sleep deprivaton affect you?

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I've had over 8 months of sleeplessness now (I'm not going to include the previous 9 months of tiredness, it's too depressing). DS has also had diarrhoea for the last couple of weeks and its resolution has coincided with the onset of a cold. Oh joy. Here we go with another fortnight of 'sleeping' with a sharp-toothed limpet attached to my breast.

I'm finding myself filled with irrational rage about tiny things. I'm apparently quite irritable (DP said this in a shaky whisper from his refuge in the linen cupboard), and I want to cry all the time. I'm also eating quite a lot of chocolate.

What happens to you when you're really tired?

I put the bottles in the washing machine and the smelly babygros in the fridge.
It feels like being on automatic pilot through lack of sleep. Zombies probably have a better quality of life than me right now but they eat less chocolate.

talking of putting things in the wrong place
I couldn't find my monile phone earlier and when I checked my bag I found a packet of cheese.....yes my phone was in the fridge

Well I've only had 6 months of unbroken sleep, she was feeding every 2 hours up until a short time ago and I was co-sleeping. She gave me 2 weeks of going through the nigvht, I woke still of course, but now she's started waking again.

I'll suddenly find everything too much and just go into drama queen mode.

Irrational rage, oh yeas, absolutley

A LOT of choclate gets eaten as well.

Feeling low.

Can't speak proper;y
No apetite for anything but can still manage chocolate.
Walk into a room and forget what I went in there for.
Just basicaly ant be arsed to do anything much except the mundane things that dont take alot of thinking about.
Makes me fall asleep on the loo at 3am and wake up freezing cold 20 mins later.......
Call my ds's anything other than there own names.
And on it goes

at cheese in handbag! Sounds so familiar! I called an iceberg a lightbulb this morning. DP just stared at me and walked away shaking his head. Took me ages to work out what I'd said wrong

i don't even try to come up with the right words now, just shout "you know, the THING " more and more loudly until DH either gives up or figures it out

I cry. A lot.

In the nicest possible way, I love this thread, it means what I am going through is normal.

Walk around with only one leg shaven.. don't bother to wash/comb my hair. I went out the other day to shop, and when I got back, caught myself in the mirror and realised I had only put mascara on one eye . What I hate the most is not having the fun, loving relationship with ds that I know I could if I was well-rested. I am trying to think of other things, but just can't remember them...

I have Fibromyagia, which for me causes a real problem with sleep, I get to sleep no problem, but can sleep as little as 3 hours a night, average is 5/6.

On bad days I find that concentration is really bad, feel like I am walking around in a fog, although I dont get very irritable, but then it does take alot for me to get like that.

Not sure how much is the lack of sleep or the Fibro, but do find it hard to find the words I want when talking, always forgetting , things like peoples names, even my best frinds! They are quite used to supplying there names when I look at them blankly

i love this thread too, i SERIOUSLY thought i was the only person on the planet going to bed before 8.

My eyes twitch, i have in fact started a thread about it.

I get a heavy head, dizziness, mirgraines, blackouts, loss of appetite, no enthusiasm about anything, fly off the handle easily, just want to cry all the time, go round in mismatched stained PJ'S. etc.