Does anyone know why colds/flus generally feel much worse in the morning

[bicentennial_baby]

and at night before bed? Maybe it's just me, but that's always the way. I'm ok, but getting increasingly stuffed up and owie. I've always wondered this.

:hi:

[huskerlaw]

1. I don't know!

But you're totally correct...it does always seem to work that way.

I assume that the evening ickiness is your body saying "I'm tired. I've been fighting this damn thing all day and I'm done." The morning thing though, I have no idea.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. I felt ok earlier...Now, I feel like utter crap

Totally stuffed up, and now the beginnings of a painful cough. Fuck.

Off to make another dose of Emergen-C and Breathe Easy tea, followed by Tylenol Cold Nighttime. I need to sleep, and if I don't do something, it's going to be a repeat of last night. Yuck.

[Texasgal]

3. Sleep has incredible healing properties

Because your bodily system is not working to it's full abilty sleep allows the human body to relax the veins and other heart pumping issues. Basically your body is taking a nap.

I hope you feel better soon!

[petronius]

4. I think that during the night there is more mucus drainage down into your throat,

and maybe even lungs. So, in the morning you feel more stuffed up. If you had trouble breathing during the night you probably had a crappy sleep and you still feel tired.

Before bed, you're just tired from a long day of being sick.

These are just my wild guesses...

[Withywindle]

5. Because EVERYTHING is that way in the morning.

Is it just me, or is the first waking up time always the shittiest feeling in the universe, and it's all gradually uphill from there?

And yeah, sickness is always at its worst then. I've lost a lot of money in my life from all the times I've felt so crappy at 7 AM that I **had** to call in or else I'd fall over on the bus--only to be feeling OK-ish by 1 or 2 PM.

[SPKrazy]

6. Tired in the evening and tolerance down

diurnal cycles explain some energy fluctuations during the day, and fatigue some of the feelings at night.

Also early in the morning often a person wakes up coughing up a lot, or didn't sleep so well the night before so they are more tired.

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. When you're lying completely horizontally...

all that goop in your head has no place to go. You might try sleeping with your back slightly elevated. And don't forget to keep a vaporizer going. Hope it's better soon! :hug::hi:

[leeroysphitz]

8. Low orgones in the a.m. hours. Check your biorhythms. n/t

[Lil Missy]

9. Truly? It's a primal thing.

You get sicker and run higher temperatures at night, because it's safer during those hours to care and watch a sick "primal" or member, during the dark hours.

Seriously, most babies are born at night, and most problem births usually happen during daytime hours.

Check it out. This is true with most animal kingdoms and packs too.

Nevertheless, you just run the temp at night when you get sick, moreso than during the day. Just ask any mother with a sick kid.

[TZ]

10. I'm pretty sure it has to do with your immune system

The production of blood cells (rbc's, wbc's, and platelets) are highest in the early morning..and because feeling "sick" is a direct result of your immune system working, thats probably part of it. Right before bed is when your immune system is at its lowest so pure fatigue probably contribes on that end.

[SKKY]

11. I think it has to do with the fact that your defenses, along with your...

...metabolism are generally slower and lower at night while you sleep, which makes you more susceptible to colds, flu, etc. It kinda makes sense because I can't remember a time when I felt a cold come on at 5:00pm. I always wake up felling like dookie.

[MonkeyFunk]

12. Because the cat stuffs bugs in your mouth

while you sleep.

Stupid cat.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

13. Stupid CAT!?

You thought it was BUGS!?

Signed,
The Cat

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"The dumbest cat is way smarter than the smartest human."
--The Cat