Does anybody else feel normal and pretty good in the evening ?

Women's health
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Just wondering if anybody else perks up in the evening ? I feel terrible when I wake up and takes me 4 hours to get out of bed ! 

I can barely wash a dish .... but in the evening I feel somewhat normal human . Sometimes don’t want to go to bed as want to RELISH the GOOD feeling !! I know it will be gone in the morning 😩😩😩

What is that all about ?????? 

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Hi Lori - I feel exactly the same - last night I felt really good, no aches & pains, burning, brain fog & I went out to dinner (beautiful Indian summer night) had 2 glasses of wine & I woke up @ 3:00 am with anxiety, burning extremities, dry mouth/nasal passages & horrible indigestion (I ate nothing that would warrant that) I spent the better half of the morning/day just decompressing & trying to ward off going into that “bad depressive place” . The afternoon was better, but the morning was bad.  I just think everything amps up in the early am...cortisol/blood sugar/ serotonin dips maybe  - who knows - so over it - 

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hi lori,

I know exactly what you are talking about! I start to feel good about 7 in the evening and my energy picks up also. it works for me because my husband works nights and I can do all my housework at night. then usually around 6 in the morning I start to feel bad again and whatever symptoms I'm going to have that day will rear their ugly heads and I'm no good all day. it's kinda weird how that works though.

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One thing that has definitely changed for me!! I used to wake up, no problem and get ready and going for the day being more productive in early hours . Now, it is soooo slow going in the mornings and all my symptoms seem to surface more in the am. By late afternoon or evening I feel more “normal” and productive without all the “off” feelings.  Definitely an adjustment I’m still trying to work through sad 

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Yup. Late afternoon and evening anxiety is less. Perhaps cortisol hormone, which is higher in the morning.

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Definitely agree, I start to feel the tremor, then the nausea and anxiety around 5am, it’s awful, it does get easier during the day - not sure if it eases off or if I just become so exhausted that I don’t notice it as much, in the evening I’m pretty relaxed and find it hard to stay awake! I tell myself don’t fall asleep because you’ve been waiting to feel relaxed all day, relish this! But I just become overwhelmed with tiredness and fall asleep watching the Kardashian’s :\

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Lori

It's because seratonin is at its lowest first thing in the morning, and the cortisol peaks. In theory it's nature's way of getting you out of bed, but when you're anxious it's made worse in the morning. I try to burn it off by walking or cycling, or just doing all my jobs about the house in the am, and generally I feel better later in the day xx

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Thanks for this explanation ! It’s always good to know there is some reason for this madness, I agree I need to walk and do things in the morning to burn it off then around 3pm I start feeling better, so hard though, long for the days I can enjoy having a lie in again xxx

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Oh wow, how I am the same. I even make exciting plans for ge following day. But I know from.the experience now that it is not a good idea since I am.a different person during the day.

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Yes! First half of the day I'm dragging, then by the end of the day I start feeling better.

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What about appetite? Do you find this is zero in the morning and then gets better throughout the day?

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Hi Karen

My hypnotherapist /psychotherapist told me that little gem, and it does help me not to dread the mornings quite so much (which is a vicious circle). I see a big difference when I don't do something productive, just end up with rigid fear...... The brain is a funny, tricky thing xx

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Hi Lori,  mornings are beastly for me...I have “obligations” so I need to push through.  I am wobbling all over the place between the vertigo and nausea. I am a little more at ease in the evening, but I think I just feel relieved that another day went by and I didn’t collapse from my symptoms...or have to rush off to the hospital.  Also everybody is home, so if I did “ collapse” somebody would find me...eventually🙄

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Oh Lou that so reminds me of how I feel - when my family was young, I used to relish those “alone time” moments.  Now, I panic & a sense of dread comes over me when I know no one will be home with me.  What the heck? Crazy thoughts  of worse case scenarios cloud my thoughts...I never ever was this person before - 

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Totally! I’m grateful I have obligations though - just getting things done in the morning drives me on, even though im feeling awful, I just keep saying - just keep it together, this will pass, you’ll feel better in the few hours...xxx

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Oh definitely!  Otherwise...I probably would never leave my bed!  I just take lots of breaks in between 🤗

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I like them all here...but cannot stand if they are near me sometimes 😂

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I forgot...speaking of crazy thoughts...when I was REALLY bad about being alone... I would leave the front unlocked In case I needed to call an ambulance...so they wouldn’t have to break the door down to get to me and my husband would have to fix it...completely NUTSO!  I am better about that now 🤪

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Yep! I totally get that! Anxiety on overdrive - 

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Yes I can definitely relate to this feeling. I wake up feeling horrible and can feel like this off and on all day and then all of a sudden just like that it will lift off by evening time.