Looking for suggestions in how to get up in the morning to bring my kids to school without being half dead. All summer I’ve been staying up and sleeping in. I don’t like driving when I’m so out of it. I have to be up by 7:30 am. So tiring. And later in the morning I have a pdoc appointment so I can’t even just come back and crawl into bed.
I get up 7 to 7:30 and read while I drink coffee for an hour. I go to bed at midnight. Try giving yourself a few minutes to just wake up with a coffee or tea maybe? I guess go to bed earlier. I get sleepy from side effects 6 hours after I take my am pills, so anytime that’s not happening I’m feeling pretty awake.
I have a lot of difficulty getting up in the morning. I rely on my partner to get me going. He sets the alarm, rouses me, gets breakfast going, comes back and rouses me again, serves breakfast and then rouses me again. I fall back to sleep so quickly, so i feel your pain. Unfortunately i start work at 0700, and i’m usually so drowsy at that time.
I’ve learned myself to go to bed early. I’m in bed by 7pm. I get up uber early though so maybe do 8 or 9pm. Set an alarm and get up. Coffee is a friend. I often have a nap after the morning…30 minutes tops but so refreshing…
It’s all about routine. Take meds same time. Sleep same time. Get up same time. It really does make a difference!
I don’t get up usually until 1 or 2 in the afternoon. I go to bed around 5 am. I work at 3 pm until 11 pm twice a week too. I have lots of trouble even getting up at 2 pm. Work motivates me some, but when I don’t work I sometimes lie in bed until 5 or 6 pm. I want to sleep when it’s dark like everyone else, but I just can’t.
I set an alarm and leave it far enough away from the bed that I have to get up to turn it off, but not far enough away that I can’t hear it.
I also set if for 20 minutes before I really have to get up, because I know I like some time in the morning to just sit and stare until I wake up properly.
This morning was tough but I survived. I’m going to start taking my nighttime meds at around 8 to see if that helps me get up earlier. I used to be a morning person. Up at 6. Make coffee and watch something for an hour. Help the kids get their lunches ready. I wish I still was a morning person. Oh well. Maybe things will turn around.
After a year of experimentation, I have a system to get me up. The meds made it hard for me to get up. What I have is my phone in a bag. I set the alarm on my phone and put it in the bag. I Lock it and put the key outside my room. To turn off my alarm, I have to get up and get the key, forcing me to wake up.