Waking up! TORTURE!

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I am super awake when I get up, I fly out of bed. I then immediately go for a 20min run.

That will wake you up.

And I do it every day. Was a beautiful winter day when I went this morning, the sun was piercing through deep fog, and the cold air heightened my senses.

After every run I usually put my hand on my chest and just feel my heart pump furiously and with this I know that I am alive.

But I also suffer from insomnia: early morning awakenings, so yeah getting up is easy when you can't stay asleep!

This is my entire life.
But I've been able to become an early morning person by telling myself that if I get up then I can get food.
Although there are still many mornings when I find that even food is a questionable incentive for getting up.

I used to have MAJOR problems waking up. I was put on sleeping medication, because they thought it was due to my insomnia. The medication didn't really help at all, in fact, it made thing worse... I had the problem (along with many others) where I didn't realize I was going back to sleep until I would wake up again, and sometimes not even then; which kinda put me in a cycle. These days, I don't have THAT much of a problem waking up, aside from the groggy feeling. The best thing I ever did was invest in a dual alarm alarm clock (sounds weird??), so I set two different alarms, as well as snooze and all that good stuff. It seems like as I have become a little older, (21) My sleeping problems have shifted to not being able to staying asleep, which was NEVER a problem in the past. I average like 4 hours of sleep a night...

I hate waking up if I need to hurry somewhere. I need time to wake up.

I'm a nocturnal person - mornings are my worst (and least productive) part of the day.

Even worse: early-morning exams

I can't wake up, either. It feels absolutely terrible. I force myself to get up because I don't want to be late for work. Then I get sleepy throughout the day. It can get so bad that I can fall asleep without realizing it. Only then, even if I only sleep for a couple of minutes, suddenly I feel just fine. At least until I get tired for a couple of minutes again.

I'm not a morning person either. I can't function without sleeping 7 to 8 and 1/2 hours of sleep every night. If you wake up when your sleep cycle is not complete particularly the deeper stages of NREM sleep cycle you feel extremely groggy. It also happens if you keep waking up in the night. If it bothers you a lot get tested for sleep disorders. Maintain a sleep routine. It's ok to feel distressed in the morning if you are not looking fwd to the day but if you feel so everyday you really need to get tested for sleep disorders.

Hahaahahaa ha huh ._. Well I know how that feels.

It will be like your dreaming and it's a really pleasant dream your sitting under tree next someone you love on warm day with a cool breeze. It feels perfect. Then you wake up and realize that it's probably never going to happen in real life.

So yeah if waking up is bad for you. I know how you feel.

I often used to feel like s**t for a couple of hours after I wake up. I'd have trouble forcing myself out of bed, and felt like I could just go on sleeping and sleeping, but that would give me horrendous headaches.
Then I found a doctor who said that it could be my thyroid. She said I could test it myself by taking my temperature as soon as I wake up. She said don't stand up or move too much, just get your thermometer as soon as you awaken, and take your temp. If it's below 36.5, you may have a thyroid issue.
I did, and once I even got up, got dressed, went outside 50m to the chicken coop and 50m back, and still felt like crap, took my temp, and it was still too low. It seems my body was taking a couple of hours to kick into gear. Also, I was getting more alert and energetic late at night. She said people with hypothyroidism can have a sort of reverse body clock (or something like that). They also tend to put on weight and struggle to lose it again.
She gave me thyroid pills, and it improved a lot.

This link has an explanation for autism-hypothyroidism connection.
http://www.devdelay.org/newsletter/arti ... tions.html

Don't know how reliable this info is, but interesting to me anyway. Could be cause of autism, or at least part of it.

So it is about mother's thyroid as well as foetus's thyroid.

By the way, thyroid is affected by pituitary, which is susceptible to damage by mercury. There is more than one way to hurt your thyroid, so if this link is valid, then a multitude of things could could indeed cause autism INCLUDING but not limited to mercury-containing fish, amalgams, and thiomersal-containing vaccines.

Out of curiosity, has anyone got a TESTED and perfectly healthy thyroid?

Actually this would also be supported by the correlation with vitamin D deficiency, if hypothyroid people tend to be night birds because of body clock issues.
This whole scenario is complex enough that you could easily get autistic people with any one of these things not present. So even if an autistic person had a healthy thyroid, if their Mum had a thyroid problem when pregnant, then they could still be autistic. Even if they spent plenty of time in the sun, the damage could still be done because the vitamin D deficiency would be a correlation not a cause. I mean it would certainly have to be something complex. to explain the inconsistencies and variability.

I dunno, I think it's way past my bedtime.

I don't even feel like moving when I wake up in the morning. It's usually because I'm sore.

It’s not so much waking up, it’s getting up. I have to get up at 7 for work, it may not be as early as some people have to get up at but it’s still too early for a person who isn’t really a morning person. Well, I like the mornings once I’m up, but I just don’t like getting up too early in the morning. I feel all shaky, and when it’s dark (in wintertime) my brain kind of gets confused and thinks it’s still the middle of the night, so I feel all groggy and have no patience for anyone or anything. Getting up early in the lighter mornings is much easier, and I cannot wait for the months between February and October because the mornings begin to get lighter around February or March, although it’s still cold.

I’d like a job where I start later in the day so that I can still have a lay in and just get up in my own time (since I’m not one to lay in bed ‘til midday). But I don’t think that’s such a good idea really, because say if I started work at 12 o’clock, I’d get up anywhere between 8.30 and 10.30, and I’d just be lingering around waiting for time, and becoming agitated or start to think about different things that make me anxious, then not want to set off out. So getting up early in the morning is better in the long run, because I can just get up and go without having to think or worry about too much.