Does anyone feel “hungover” when they wake up? Does your body feel heavy like you’re walking through water? I feel sick every morning, weak and tired. Anything help?
Same 😵 feels like the worst hangover with the flu imaginable 😖
This is exactly how I describe it too. It's the worst! :(
I keep a bottle of water next to my bed and it's nearly empty by morning but I still wake up feeling dehydrated, shaky, weighed down, etc... It takes me hours to feel more normal. Sometimes the feeling (and shakiness) doesn't go away all day.
Maybe this is why it's always taken me a solid 1-2 hours to actually be awake.
I have POTS so this may not help if you don't, but LMNT or some other sodium bomb + water helps (I've used ramen, which also works). It helps with feeling less queasy, less weak, and more awake for me.
V8 has been my morning go-to and it's helping, makes me not as in a rush to get liquid IV in :)
Yes. Even on my best days it takes me a couple of hours to wake up. On bad days, feeling awake and coherent might not happen.
Pretty much every day. Forcing myself to move around helps the most but that is easier said then done.
Mornings are horrific. If I felt like that all day I would unalive myself. I only start feeling like I can think after 3pm
Gosh you guys! We all share similar symptoms. I don’t feel so alone now. Thank you all for responding!
You know that part in Wall-E where he wakes up and needs to charge? That is me every morning! My muscles are sore, my bones and joints are stiff and achy. I feel disoriented. I usually feel nauseous and don’t get an appetite till late afternoon. It takes me hours to “wake up”. Things that help: pounding a LMNT in 16-20oz water, DPT, midodrine!
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If I eat late at night I’m always truly hungover like a real alcohol style hangover except it’s from food. So I never eat within 2 hours of bed or it will get me :(
Yes. Every morning I feel ugggh. I try to take my nadolol and guanfacine First thing before getting out of bed. And drink a fair bit of water. My days go better if I can take my meds and stay in bed a while longer. Sometimes I’ll wake up too early, take my meds, and then fall back asleep.
I also have rolling chairs in my bedroom and entry way where I get ready every morning. Sitting while doing my morning routines is a must. Also, giving myself plenty of time is a must. I cannot rush in the morning or I’ll be useless at work. And I never bathe in the morning, only in the evenings before bed.
Mornings are the worst! I feel totally hung over, sick, nauseated, exhausted, bad occipital headache and overly sensitive to sound and light. Don't say a cheery "GOOD MORNING!" to me or offer me food of any kind!
The best thing a practitioner suggested me (had to force this at first because 🤢) is to chug 24-32 oz spring water within the first 10-20 minutes of waking before tea/coffee whatever.
It pretty much immediately induces an, erm, digestive release, and that takes a good deal of the sick/toxic feeling away. I still need at least two hours to rest and chill before I can engage in any cohesive way though. I like to use this time to do word games/puzzles online to gently wake up my brain.
Always 😭 I feel dehydrated like a shriveled sponge and if I try to walk too soon after waking up I’m stumbling around and walking into walls
I had to double check and make sure I didn't write this, lol. This is exactly how I explain how I feel to my husband. A shriveled and dry sponge! Sometimes I say a dry pretzel, lol. Stumbling and walking into walls... yep! So sorry you feel like this too. <3
Yes. I always feel like I have the worst flu with the worst hangover imaginable 😵💫
Used to, all the time, as far back as I can remember. Mornings were always so hard until the past few years. What helps me in general is staying extremely hydrated and getting on the right meds and sticking to my treatment plan. I take various prescription meds 6 times a day, have a continuous patch of one of them, plus a pile of supplements. More specific to mornings, taking meds and the first 2 grams of salt at 6 am, sometimes fall back asleep for a bit, and get up an hour or two later once they've kicked in. I'm 37 and it's wild how much better I feel and more energy I have now than at ages 10, 20, or 30. I can just... get up and do stuff.
Wow! Thank you for sharing. Glad to know you got things worked out for the better.
Yessss! Wading through mud is how I describe it.
Before I get out of bed, I pump my feet to get the blood going (lift your feet up towards your body, then point them away, keeping legs fairly straight). I usually pump my feet again while I'm sitting on the edge of the bed. I keep water next to my bed, drinking while I'm sitting helps, when I remember to do it.
Once I'm dressed and the fuzzballs are fed, I have electrolytes.
Could you be experiencing post exertional malaise (PEM)? It’s a big one for me. Can be triggered from physical, emotional, or mental exertion and the threshold for triggering can be a moving target. Once I got my meds figured out and stopped exercising/removed worst trigger foods for mcas, mornings got a bit easier for me.
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If I don’t get enough sleep it’ll feel like I downed a litre of vodka the night before. Ugh.
Every dang day.
100%. IST here, before meds it was every day for me. I would wake up and immediately hurl a lot of the time. If I wasn't in a committed lesbian relationship everyone would've thought I was pregnant lol
Ivabradine all but made it disappear, so logically I think the issue for me was my HR being too high in my sleep/when I woke up.
Yes, this is exactly how I feel every morning. 😓 It takes me so long to get moving. And then I drink water with Trioral in it & also take Vitassium capsules throughout the day. I guess it helps but I only start to feel less awful around 3 or 4pm.
Me!!! I always feel awful when I first wake up. Kind of like a mix between having a hangover or the tail end of a virus. Where you aren’t quite “sick” but you’re not well either. Headache, sore body, groggy, heavy feeling, overall yuck.
Almost every damn day.
I do when I first wake up. I drink 2 liquid IVs when I first wake up. I have one ready on my night stand, chug it, take my meds, and get up. I refill my 30 oz cup again and place another liquid IV and drink that. Once it’s empty, I replace it with water constantly. Doing that every morning, has really helped!
Nice! Isn’t that costly? Liquid IV’s aren’t the cheapest out there so I’m curious.
Yes they are! It’s cheaper to get them at Sam’s club or Costco because they have the big packs
I feel like this in the morning the day after I’ve been super active and haven’t paid attention to what I’m eating or drinking. Also have mornings like this when I’m having a flare up.
I hate mornings. So I just don't sleep anymore. I let my morning be "whatever this dumbass body decides."
But yes, I feel hungover, and gnomes beat me with baseball bats. It takes a good few hours to to have the limbic system function. The catch is if I don't move often, kind of have to restart it. It's very painful and numb body limbs.
I try to be a Jedi of moving and not moving. It's annoying and exhausting.
Edit: Dehydration feeling is the worst! I can time my AM sleeping hours where my mouth becomes a desert, hard to swallow or breath. I'll wet my mouth, but I'm very careful as my condition includes a rare modifier to water... yup allergic to my fucking self. Its happening less but water burns and makes me vomit. I'm generally okay with specific liquids (drinks), but it's extremely difficult for me to not be dehydrated. And the ER thinks I'm on drugs when I hallucinate... again.
Every day for about 30 years. Seemed like it was tied to a combination of depression, a sleep disorder, and GERD. It's gotten better since working some of that out.
Oh yeah someone said drinking water before you leave bed in thr AM. I do that as well (though not chugging) now by going to bed with a cup of water next to me.
Yeah. Most days.
If I wake up in the middle of the night, I’ll take a few swallows of water. Trying to help combat the morning dehydration. And then stretch a bit in the morning with some leg lifts and such to help get blood moving upwards. And morning water/electrolytes pretty quickly after getting up.
It doesn’t solve it every day, but it has helped me.
Yes. 100%. This is my worst symptom. I feel hungover and drugged every single morning. It used to get a little better towards the evening but now it's pretty much 24/7. I really wish I could figure it out. I spend the little energy I have sometimes researching it but have yet to find anything really helpful. Hydrating and eating salt during the evening and mornings just hasn't helped for me.
If anyone here has had success in alleviating this symptom please share with us. <3
Have a lot to do with what I eat the night before. Broccoli wrecks me. So hungover.
Every stinking morning. I can't remember the last time I woke up feeling refreshed and alert. At least 20 years.
May suggest low morning cortisol. Optimal is at the top end of the normal range (the range is way too broad as cortisol levels should peak early and fall as the day goes along).
Yep.. I can totally relate to this! I’m not sure anything really helps. That I know of anyway 😵💫
Yes. So, drink the margaritas!
Yes! I feel incredibly dehydrated every morning no matter how much I drink (water lol) the night before. It feels like I was dancing at a rave all night and only slept 2 hours. Muscle pain, heavy head, shaky. It's pure misery some mornings. Usually it goes away with hydration but sometimes it lingers for hours