Naps: for and against

Started 22 September 2024 · 24 replies · 275 hearts · read 5.6k times

TorrinAberdeen, UK · 22 September 2024

1.8 years ago

Naps: for and against Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

It is not severe. It is relentless, which turns out to be a different problem, and one I have found much harder to describe to anybody.

I have read the guide on this and it covered the ordinary version. Mine is not quite the ordinary version and that is why I am asking.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this, because I would rather go in able to describe it properly.

Thank you for reading something this unglamorous. Any experience welcome, and timescales especially.

Ollie OPeterhead, UK

I found the tiredness hardest to explain to other people. It is not the tiredness of a bad night, it is a different quality, and there is no good vocabulary for it.

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

Stepping in because a question about another medication has come up. That is a pharmacist question and it is genuinely one they will answer properly and quickly.

KezWigan, UK

My prescriber asked about my sleep before anything else when I raised fatigue, which I thought was a diversion and turned out to be the whole answer.

PeggyRotherham, UK

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

Something practical: I stopped scheduling anything on the evening of the day I do it. That one change took the pressure out of the whole week.

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LeifTrondheim, NO

What worked was accepting that I had less in the day than I used to, temporarily, and taking things out of the week rather than trying to do them tired.

OssianTromsø, NO

The vivid dreams caught me completely off guard. Nobody had mentioned them and about a third of this circle seems to have had them.

RufusGuildford, UK

That is a kinder way of putting it than I have managed about myself.

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RuthieLeicester, UK

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

MarenBremen, DE

The bit I underestimated was how much the fatigue affected my mood, and how much I then attributed to my mood that was actually just being tired.

BrunoMilan, IT

#10

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.

SunnivaBodø, NO

#11

What Bruno described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

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.

TorinBelfast, NI

#12

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.

GigiNaples, IT

#13

Mine was worst in winter and much better in summer, and I now think a good half of it was seasonal and would have happened anyway.

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GildaTrieste, IT

#14

Reading Torin, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

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.

RunaAarhus, DK

#15

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

OrrinGlasgow, UK

#16

Runa said something I want to sit with for a second.

My sleep needed a completely different shape from the one it had before. Earlier, longer, and less negotiable, and it took me months to accept that.

NorahDerry, NI

#17

I raised fatigue at a review and was taken seriously, tested, and reassured. I had expected to be told it was normal and left there.

NoahHull, UK

#18

Coming back to say the fatigue lifted at about the four-month mark and has not come back. I wanted to leave that here for anybody currently in it.

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AshSunderland, UK

#19

Holding this with you rather than answering it.

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HollisBath, UK

#20

Reading Noah, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

The four o'clock waking was the thing I could not solve. I have found nothing that fixes it and I have found it helps to know I am not the only one.

SamPortland, OR

#21

My tiredness arrived without warning at about week five and lasted a month. It was not dramatic, it was just that everything took more out of me than it should have.

NikolaiSofia, BG

#22

What helped was scheduling the tiredness rather than fighting it. I moved the demanding parts of my week to mornings and stopped pretending afternoons were productive.

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

#23

Facilitator note: everything described here is a matter for you and whoever prescribes for you. We are here for the company and for the vocabulary.

SinéadCork, IE

#24

I read this twice. The second time was for the last paragraph.

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