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Sleep and fatigue

I slept eleven hours and woke up tired

Started 29 November 2025 · 13 replies · 110 hearts · read 1.4k times

KezWigan, UK · 29 November 2025
8 months ago

I slept eleven hours and woke up tired Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

What I cannot tell is whether this is the ordinary tax or the sort of thing that needs somebody today, and that distinction is the whole of my question.

Something is going on and I would like to know whether other people have had it, mostly so I know whether to raise it or wait it out.

I want to describe this accurately rather than politely, because the polite version is what I said at my last appointment and it got me nowhere.

Putting the figure in the title felt slightly dramatic, and then I counted, and eleven hours is simply what it is.

Thanks in advance. Even a one-line "yes, me too" would help more than you would think.

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SamPortland, OR
#1

Somebody here said to treat energy as a budget rather than a personal quality, and that single reframing changed how I planned my weeks.

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RuthieLeicester, UK
#2

What I noticed was that the tiredness came in a wave in the mid-afternoon and if I could get through forty minutes it passed. Trying to push through it never worked.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#3

I am going to steer us away from comparing severity. It has crept in over the last few replies and it does not help anybody who is currently in it.

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RufusGuildford, UK
#4

Kiki — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I would say do not soldier on with this silently for months. I did five months and my GP's first response was to ask why I had not come sooner.

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GildaTrieste, IT
#5

Same here, and I am glad you said it first.

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AshSunderland, UK
#6

Light in the morning was the thing that helped most and cost nothing. Twenty minutes outside before nine, most days, and my nights changed within a fortnight.

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OssianTromsø, NO
#7

I was tired for about eight weeks and then I was not. I have no explanation. I offer it as data because the eight-week accounts are what I needed at week three.

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GigiNaples, IT
#8

Mine improved when I fixed something completely unrelated, which had been quietly wrecking my nights for a year. Worth casting a wide net.

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GethinMerthyr Tydfil, UK
#9

Gigi has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Mine was much worse for the first three days after each step up and then fine. Once I saw that pattern in my notes I planned around it.

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TobySwindon, UK
#10

I had assumed the fatigue was psychological and it turned out to be worth a set of bloods. Something unrelated came up and it was fixable.

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PeggyRotherham, UK
#11

The exhaustion is real and it is not laziness, and I spent a month calling it laziness before somebody here corrected me kindly.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#12

Holding a boundary: we do not swap remedies in this circle as though they were prescriptions. Describing what happened to you is welcome; telling somebody what to take is not.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#13

Naps helped me and made things worse for somebody I talk to weekly, so I am reluctant to recommend them. Worth trying and worth abandoning.

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