How do you feel when you wake up?

[soocool]

When I wake up naturally I feel great (it helps to have blackout shades in the bedroom). If the alarm wakes me up I set it for 10-15 minutes before I actually have to get up. Waking up slowly like this allows me sufficient time to stretch in bed and I feel great and alert afterwards.

 

[elrohwen]

Some days I do feel refreshed, but often I have a little bit of a headache and just want to go back to sleep. I''m not really a late sleeper though, unless I''m really sleep deprived, so even though I want to go back to sleep, it''s not always possible if it''s after 8 or 9am.

 

[brazen_irish_hussy]

I admit it, I am a morning person. Assuming I got enough sleep, which I usually do, I wake up quite happy and ready to go. My dad is the same way, but everyone else I have ever lived with is not. Trust me, there is NOTHING they find more irritating than someone who is chipper and dancing around the house, (I actually do dance in the morning) when they just want to burrow under the covers and pretend the sun does not exist.

 

[ericad]

DH used to suffer from lots of escalating anxiety, often over irrational things, and the supplement SamE has totally changed his life. He was almost to the point of agreeing to prescription meds, but this has totally helped him. I''ve been taking it too, and it''s helped greatly with my mood swings, especially the "slumps" which are now completely gone. I have a friend who is studying naturopathy and she swears by 5 HTP supplements.

I usually feel overly tired when I wake up. One thing I''m doing is gradually eliminating caffeine from my diet. I expect it to take a couple of weeks (diluting my morning coffee with decaf more and more every day, to avoid the withdrawal headache). Before I got pregnant with DD, I did this and didn''t go back to coffee for over a year. I never felt better. I was alert in the mornings, had energy all day. I''ve spoken to others who have eliminated caffeine and report the same thing, so I''m giving it a shot. Never should have gone back to the morning coffee!

 

[decodelighted]

Date: 6/27/2010 5:14:52 AM
Author: heraanderson
I think my circadian rhythm is broken. If I let myself sleep until I wake up, then I will get 9-11 hours sleep. It doesn''t matter if I go to sleep at 9pm or even 4am, I require oodles of sleep. My husband only needs a maximum of 6 hours sleep and wakes up naturally almost every morning. It must be nice.

DITTO DITTO DITTO!!! I mean, THIS!

Most of the time I wake up groggy and grouchy too. I''m usually getting up earlier than I want because the pup needs to go out. DH leaves her w/me when HE gets up (unless she''s very squirmy) because she has a bit of separation anxiety w/me upstairs & her downstairs.

 

[decodelighted]

And to the OP --- it does sound a bit like an anxiety disorder. (Unless something physical is causing it -- like low/high blood sugar --or-- some temporary stressful life circumstance).

a) is it recent onset?
b) how old are you? (mid-Twenties might be anxiety disorder, late-Forties - perimenny?)
c) is it a particularly stressful time in general, or just in the mornings?

 

[CJ2008]

Date: 6/26/2010 11:24:48 AM
Author: somethingshiny
It sounds like you might be suffering from anxiety, especially if it''s every day.


Have you tried making lists or schedules the day or week before? When you wake up, you know what''s expected and may find it easier to get motivated or at least be calmer.

Yes, when I make a list it does help...sometimes more than others. It''s always disappointing that I can''t do everything...

 

[CJ2008]

Date: 6/27/2010 1:39:29 AM
Author: PilsnPinkysMom

Date: 6/27/2010 1:29:44 AM

Author: Haven

Pils--I''m not Kenny, but I can definitely feel a difference in the morning when I do certain things at night.



One key for me is to drink a lot of water a couple hours before I go to sleep. (I can''t drink it too soon before I go to sleep, because then I''ll have to wake up for a potty run in the middle of the night!)



Another key for me is to wind down. The first thing I do is make sure that everything is set up for work the next morning. That just helps me get a better night''s sleep. (For me this means that I have my bags ready to go, I haven''t left any last-minute grading for the morning, I know I have enough clean and pressed items to put an outfit together, etc.)



And then I read in bed. I like to read a light, fun book in bed. I think this helps me clear my mind of all the thoughts that have been racing around all day, because when I don''t read before bed I usually end up staying awake for hours thinking about a million different things.



And, I usually get at least seven hours of sleep.

Thanks for your reply, Haven! This is actually quite helpful... Admittedly my evenings are spent on a laptop, finishing up school work, and thinking of all the last-minute reading I need to cram into my early morning routine. Perhaps part of my feeling like cr*p has to do with time-management skills in general. Like many others who responded, I stay awake thinking of all the things I need to accomplish the following day.


Any good book recommendations? Nothing too good, though... I don''t want to stay up til 3am because I *have* to finish the story

Has this ever happened to you?


Does your bedtime routine coincide with your DH''s? I sometimes think that DH and I need to be on the same page about our evening routines. I tend to sleep restlessly if I know he is up, watching sports or working on something, and he sleeps restlessly when I''m out of bed, finishing up school work. When we go to bed at the same, reasonable hour my mornings are a tad bit more bearable.


(Sorry, OP for the mini-threadjack... But I''m hoping you''re finding posters'' advice to be helpful!)

Yes, absolutely! I''m finding everyone''s replies helpful - especially because they make me realize the way I wake up is NOT common!

And, even if I did object to the mini-threadjack, I couldn''t stay mad at you because of that gorgeous dog! haha

 

[CJ2008]

Date: 6/27/2010 11:22:35 AM
Author: ericad
DH used to suffer from lots of escalating anxiety, often over irrational things, and the supplement SamE has totally changed his life. He was almost to the point of agreeing to prescription meds, but this has totally helped him. I''ve been taking it too, and it''s helped greatly with my mood swings, especially the ''slumps'' which are now completely gone. I have a friend who is studying naturopathy and she swears by 5 HTP supplements.


I usually feel overly tired when I wake up. One thing I''m doing is gradually eliminating caffeine from my diet. I expect it to take a couple of weeks (diluting my morning coffee with decaf more and more every day, to avoid the withdrawal headache). Before I got pregnant with DD, I did this and didn''t go back to coffee for over a year. I never felt better. I was alert in the mornings, had energy all day. I''ve spoken to others who have eliminated caffeine and report the same thing, so I''m giving it a shot. Never should have gone back to the morning coffee!

Hmmm...I''ll have to look into the SamE and the 5 HTP supplements

 

[CJ2008]

Date: 6/27/2010 11:46:59 AM
Author: decodelighted
And to the OP --- it does sound a bit like an anxiety disorder. (Unless something physical is causing it -- like low/high blood sugar --or-- some temporary stressful life circumstance).


a) is it recent onset?

b) how old are you? (mid-Twenties might be anxiety disorder, late-Forties - perimenny?)

c) is it a particularly stressful time in general, or just in the mornings?

Sorry people that I keep quoting each quote in its own post...I don't know how to do it any other way...(anybody want to tell me how to do that? I used to be able to do it, I think, but not any more...is it a Firefox limitation? I used to use IE).

a) No...I've had anxiety all my life, in one form or another. Whenever I have something important going on, or if I feel like I have lots to do and not enough time to do it in, I wake up anxious. Sometimes, I can't sleep...

b) Early 40s - is perimenny pre-menopause?

c) Hmmmm...I'd say there's stress in my life right now, in different areas of life. On the surface everything seems OK but there are a LOT of things waiting to explode...but the mornings are particularly stressful because it's my chance get a lot of stuff done...if I don't get stuff done the anxiety turns into like a kind of disappointment...

ETA: I've read your disclaimer and accept its terms

 

[Autumnovember]

I wake up slightly annoyed every morning. The "why-the-eff-do-i-have-to-get-up" kind of annoyed. Takes me about 15 minutes to snap out of it and then I'm good to go. Also, I'm ALWAYS tired when I wake up. The only time that I'm not is if I passed out the night before and slept heavy which rarely happens.

 

[risingsun]

I wake up tired. Some mornings I wake up with a migraine or stomach spasms. I really look forward to my mornings

Due to my fatigue, I take a nap every afternoon. I have trouble falling asleep at night. My sleep cycle needs to be reset, if that is possible.

 

[joflier]

Date: 6/28/2010 12:19:51 AM
Author: Autumnovember
I wake up slightly annoyed every morning. The ''why-the-eff-do-i-have-to-get-up'' kind of annoyed. Takes me about 15 minutes to snap out of it and then I''m good to go. Also, I''m ALWAYS tired when I wake up. The only time that I''m not is if I passed out the night before and slept heavy which rarely happens.

Annoyed was the first word that came to my mind too. I''m terrifically annoyed every morning because it IS morning, and because I have to get my butt out of bed. And also because there''s some peppy bird chirping out of my window, that quite frankly, I''d like to throw something at, at that hour.

 

[Beacon]

In general I wake up feeling excellent. I look over at my DH first thing and that makes me happy too. I am usually hungry and really want breakfast!

I have had some weird health issues the past year, so most mornings I wake up and take a once over to see how I am. For a year I have been a big mess - hives and swollen fingers. But lately these have been tapering off - I pray one day it will go for good. Until this happened I wake up happy every day. Even now I am pretty happy in spite of it.

 

[Lisa Loves Shiny]

I used to wake up very anxious too. There was this feeling of dread. I spent most of my life like that starting from childhood. The last ten years that has changed and usually I wake up tired but happy to see the dogs. They are so happy in the morning that it makes me feel a little better before I go off to my stupid job.

 

[waterlilly]

Angry. The alarm clock sound makes me angry, I hate getting up in the morning.

 

[ZestfullyBling]

When I wake up I feel like rolling over and going back to sleep. Doesn''t feel like i ever get enough sleep! I even have prescribed sleeping pills that Doc gave me and I STILL cant sleep more thant 5-6 hours!

 

[diamondringlover]

Yes once I get up I feel like there is a thousand things that has to get done and I stress over them till they are done...during the week I have the ugh I have to work feeling and on the weekends I have too much to do...guess there just isnt enough time in the day....and then I stress and cant sleep.....it just sucks.

 

[missy]

Depends on how well I slept the night before. If I get enough sleep I wake up feeling well. If I didn''t I wake up feeling very tired but I get right out of bed if it is a workday. Usually I wake before my alarm (which is set at 5AM

) but when I wake up to my alarm I''m like oh no, it cannot be morning already!! But I get right out of bed as there is a lot to do in the AM before I go to work.

But all in all I look forward to each morning because it gets us closer to the weekend!!!! And I always look forward to the evening because I cannot wait to get to sleep and get onto the next day to get closer to the weekend!

I''m seeing a theme here...

btw is anyone else too darn hot lately?! I feel like I am melting lately, even with the a/c on!! I definitely prefer sleeping with the cooler weather and think my quality of sleep suffers with the heat.