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Sleep and fatigue

I slept eleven hours and woke up tired

Started 29 November 2025 · 13 replies · 110 hearts · read 1.4k times

KezWigan, UK · 29 November 2025
8 months ago

I slept eleven hours and woke up tired Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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SamPortland, OR
#1

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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RuthieLeicester, UK
#2

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#3

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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RufusGuildford, UK
#4

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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GildaTrieste, IT
#5

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

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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AshSunderland, UK
#6

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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OssianTromsø, NO
#7

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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GigiNaples, IT
#8

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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GethinMerthyr Tydfil, UK
#9

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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TobySwindon, UK
#10

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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PeggyRotherham, UK
#11

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#12

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#13

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.

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