yup, happens to me, as well as my kids, birds, dog. donkeys and miscellaneous critters. i love blaming it on the weather and the movements of the celestial bodies. yesterday a blue norther blew in during the wee hours. all my critters woke up anxious yesterday and continue so today. is that rooster compulsively checking his blood pressure today? for sure, his hens are dancing weird dances. the egg count was a tad shy this evening.

and life goes on. . .

for what it's worth
my hubs monitors his blood pressure religiously. he sure looks meditative when he does so. makes me wonder if you could use that ritual as the lead in to meditation periods. just wondering. . .

Yes, I often wake up anxious! It's so annoying. What a way to start the day.

My psychiatrist said that almost all of his patients (anxiety and depression patients) all tell him the same thing, that their anxiety/depression is the worst in the morning. Not even about the cortisol surge or anything, that they just are more anxious in the mornings.

Once I get up and get going and start doing stuff, I start to feel better. And getting outside always always helps me to feel better.

My Mom had astronomically high blood pressure her whole life (and she lived to 90 years old), but some of the things I know about it is, make sure both feet are flat on the ground (don't cross your legs). Be still and quiet about 10 minutes before taking your reading. And, try the readings one on each arm.

Hope the rest of your day got better!

Here's the thing about pressure. When you are already experiencing pressure, measuring it will show where the increase is in that moment.

Once I started testing how intense the pressure was, I worked on the the way I felt before and noted the difference.

Doing this helped me to adjust naturally so the measuring of the pressure was better even in stress.

I agree with adding this into the meditation process as it will give you a better idea of what is working.

It took me a long time to work through the 'wake up anxiety' and I rarely experience it now. Choosing to relax before I get out of bed or stretching depending on how I'm affected is my usual go-to.

Here's to your success! Writing it out is so much part of the process!

Yes, I used to have bad anxiety in the mornings many years ago. It was awful. It went away and it can for you too. My cousin is a psychologist. I once told her that I was very anxious and she said to ask myself what I was anxious about. These days, I wake up looking forward to my coffee and my phone or computer. My panic attacks are at a minimum. I do therapy, am getting more rest and I think even the Keto diet is calming me down.

I do the blood pressure checking too when I’m very anxious I have high blood pressure on a good day , so a very anxious day will send it to probably a very bad level. But it’s not a good idea because then you are anxious that your blood pressure is so high lol not that it’s funny but I find my humor in it. It’s like having anxiety about being anxious It just adds to the frenzy There’s no
Point in checking it until you calm down Unless you’re having another symptom or it’s staying high for a couple of days. I too try to become Uber calm before a reading lol. I want that reading close to normal so it’s not another worry on the list if I need to get it down. I avoid salt, go for a walk and make sure meds are taken. This will help a little in a couple of days. Oh and increase drinking water Hugs.

Yes, I have been in your shoes! It is an awful way to start the day! I find it more annoying that when I wake up anxious I have no idea what I am anxious about. I do not check my blood pressure; but I obsessively check my heart rate when I wake up like this; which is high because I am anxious and gets worse because I see that it is high. I have found that if I call a friend or do breathing exercises it does help me feel better. I also have stopped drinking caffeine right before I go to bed at night.

Yes, I go to bed, And wake up Anxious.
Like, I'm just sitting watching tv, my heart races, feel's like it's coming out of my chest, It disrupts my sleep, And my thought prosses.

You think of think of the worse case scenario,

In fact I just wrote about it in the PTSD group, Intitled: "Why does it feel so real"

Feel free to give me Your input.

I hear that, Here's to a worry/stress free day.

Thank you all for your words! You all are the best!

hi:) i have the same feeling a lot of times. some days i wake up and feel nauseus because of anxiety. a lot of times i even puke. but sometimes it gets better later in the day.
some days i feel like i am about to have a panic attack all day. and i don't know why that happens. this isn't the best advice but sometimes it helps me to just give in the anxiety and have a panic attack or just cry (crying in a histerical/dramatic way really helps me sometimes). i think with that you just let everything that has been accumulating out.