good days and bad days

[angel]

is this normal one day i feel like I'm on top of the world and the next day I'm so low again. i also know how you feel about being tired all the time. It doesn't seem to matter how much sleep i get I'm just so tired. My baby is really good and sleeps all night so why do i feel like this. Other people have babies that don't sleep as well as mine but they seem to cope so well.

[yorkslass]

Yes it is normal to get good days and bad even though it may seen to be mostley bad days at the moment thoses good days start to pile up and get more and more till they out weigh the bad ones and eventually you will have mostley good days.

Sleep and tiredness seems to be big part of PND I found this out as i could sleep for hours and still be tired.

Hope this helps

Melx

[Veritee]

Hi Angel

How long have you had PNI ( forgive me if you have already said)

Because what you describe I call the ups and the downs - and is quite common when you have had PNI for a while and for some it is even a sign of the beginning of recovery.
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I think the tiredness is nothing to do with whether you baby sleeps or not!

Of course it would help if your baby did not wake you up through the night and the you slept well - but many who do have 'good' babies or someone else when they have PNI to help with 'night shifts' still feel this overwhelming and 'to the bone' tiredness.

I think this is a symptom of PNI - it certainly was for me and women who are kept us by their babies but do not have PNI are tired but do not understand what we mean but this tiredness.

If you are unfortunate as I was to have a baby who does not sleep through the night and this tiredness - then this is a very difficult part of PNI

But the fact you are having up days could be a sign of recovery.

However there can be another reason for highs and lows that you should be aware of.

some women with PNI suffer Manic episodes , followed by crashing down - if your UP days seem to you to be too up ie not just content and happy/everything is right with the world - but over excited like you can conquer the world with un- real expectations of what you can achieve which crash the minute you are down again - then I would monitor this and talk it over with you GP or HV or other support person.

Anyway I hope for you it is a sign of recovery?

All the best
veritee

[angel]

I'm not really sure how long I've had PND or if i even actually have it. Lots of my family say i had it after my little boy was born as i did some things that were really out of character for me. My little boy is now three and my baby girl is four months but this time things feel much different from last time. I just feel really low most of the time and i know i said about having good days i don't think they are manic episodes as veritee said but i think i do know the reason behind them. The days when i feel most happy are the ones when my husband isn't at work because i don't feel so alone then. I just wish i could tell him how i actually feel he keeps asking me if I'm OK and i tell him i am but i think he has started noticing that something is not quite right. I frightened to go to the GP or the HV as this would all become so much more real is this something i can get over by myself ?

[collette]

hello there angel

welcome to the site. It is normal to have good days and bad days with PNI. I certainly experienced this for quite a while when I was becoming established on my medication.

I would have really low awful no energy days and then really high take on the world days. I did not like this and craved stability in my emotions. What will happen is that the good days will start to outnumber the truly bad days, and when you get a difficult day you WILL cope with it better.

I remember feeling so very tired all the time and my baby is a good sleeper at night too. I would stay up til midnight most nights just because i couldn't relax , but again that is now different.

Just take it easy and don't pressure yourself too much. I get frustrated at the lack of speed of recovery but it is just like baby steps and you will get there in the end.

Keep posting if it helps.

Love Collette x