Injection day timing and sleep quality

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.

Ossian, I have been where you are and I would rather say so than stay quiet.

What made the difference for me was a fixed wake time rather than a fixed bedtime. Somebody here suggested it and it took about ten days to work.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The thing I would raise with somebody qualified is fatigue that is not improving over months rather than weeks. Mine was, so I did, and it was worth it.

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

I was waking at three or four, wide awake, for about six weeks. It stopped as suddenly as it started and I never worked out why.

Mine correlated with hydration far more than I would have believed. Very dull, very consistent across three months of notes.

Building on what Toby wrote rather than answering the original question.

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.

Read, understood, and glad you are here.

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.