Feeling exhausted on waking

[ali56]

Hi

Does anyone with thyroid problems wake up the morning feeling

exhausted. I have Graves' disease which is in remission at present

but it took five years. It takes me until lunch time to feel anything like normal.

Any thoughts anyone.

Xx

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Totally with you on that ali56 although I'm hypo, I don't have Graves. I don't sleep all that well, need the loo once or twice during the night and struggle to get out of bed even by 9am. I am as tired when I get up as I am when I go to bed, my sleep isn't refreshing. My practioner put me on 5HTP, it does make me more physically relaxed when I go to bed and my mind isn't quite so active when in bed, bit I still take a couple of hours to fall asleep. The 5HTP hasn't improved the quality of my sleep.

[thyr01d]

I believe this can indicate an adrenal problem but I know nothing about this and it's second-hand info so just a suggestion that needs checking.

[Mouldyoledoll]

I'm like this every morning, hence why I hate mornings! I cannot function at all, and its lunchtime before I can function a bit better, although, I wouldn't say normal. Then I slump at around 2pm. I have Hashimotos

[C70rol]

I'm also not good in the mornings . I have Hashimotos and I'm on NDT and do support my adrenals, but I do find that I have tight thick heads in the morning, and really have to push myself.

But from lunchtime onwards it's like a light has been switched on, and I am normal with energy, and my personality comes back again.

[Silver_Fairy]

Maybe you should have thyroid levels tested for. I have Graves, am in remission, but my levels have dropped so much Im borderline hypo.

[MariLiz]

I say to my husband I feel as though I've been trampled during the night, everything aches, and just getting across to the bathroom is an effort!

[catalonia13]

I feel for you, I'm the same! takes me 2 or 3 hours to get going, I'm hypothyroid, my anti-bodies are also positive though GP says it's not Hashimotos, even though 2 other family members have it, I also have 4 other auto-immune conditions, GP is useless, waste of time though he has finally agreed to send me to see an Immunologist, as suggested by another specialist nearly a year ago.

[MariLiz in reply to catalonia13]

It will be interesting to hear how you get on with the immunologist. I have a collection of autoimmune conditions too, underactive thyroid, pernicious anaemia, and fibromyalgia. Plus asthma and a long term back condition. I thought if your antibodies are positive then it must be Hashimotos?