Waking at four every morning since week three

Started 18 June 2026 · 13 replies · 83 hearts · read 861 times

PeggyRotherham, UK · 18 June 2026

1 month ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Waking at four every morning since week three

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

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

KezWigan, UK

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

GigiNaples, IT

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

NilsUppsala, SE

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

GildaTrieste, IT

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

SunnivaBodø, NO

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

RunaAarhus, DK

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

TorinBelfast, NI

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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SamPortland, OR

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

RillaAberdeen, UK

#10

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

SinéadCork, IE

#11

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

#12

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

NkemPort Harcourt, NG

#13

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

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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