How are you functioning at work?

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I’m 8 weeks and just miserably sleepy and tired, not to mention uncomfortable and queasy depending on what I eat. Have nonstop headaches while I’m here at work.
I work at a corporate office where everyone is professional and it’s so hard to focus and pretend like I’m normal.
How’s everyone else handling their work situations?? I need to sneak out and take breaks in my car, they are bound to find out something is wrong with me!

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Basically the same. I’m shocked I haven’t thrown a stapler at one of my co workers yet

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I’m not. I keep not going in and just working from home. And I’m half asking everything despite my best efforts. I just can’t right now.

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I feel you! I work in an eye clinic and assist an optometrist during exams by interpreting/coding/billing etc. and it's so hard to be professional when I feel like I could fall asleep at any moment! I generally work 9-11 hour days, and by the time I get home I make dinner and go straight to bed. I'm normally an 11:00 bedtime kinda gal, but lately it's been been more like 8:30. 😴

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I feel your pain!  Exhausted exhausted and trying hard to function normally in my corporate work setting. 
The only thing that is keeping me going is that I can work from home a day or two a week. Those days I can stagger my work schedule more efficiently based on when I have more energy in the day (for me, first thing early early in the morning). 
The struggle is real in the afternoons 😴 💤  no matter where I am. Hope this gets better soon!! 
I have outsourced everything I can (cooking, housecleaning, chores, etc.), but am still tired!

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It has been rough! My schedule currently is a little insane since I am a lawyer and have a trial coming up in a few weeks, along with all of my normal case load, so I have been having decaf coffee in the am, small cup of caffeinated in the afternoon, putting peppermint essential oils in my diffuser in my office, drinking peppermint tea when I finished my caffeine intake for the day. I go to bed shortly after I put my toddler to sleep when I get home and wake up early to start it over again! Hoping for more energy in a month so I can be a little more active.

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I'm a preschool teacher and at the end of the day I'm exhausted and throwing up!

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I am a SAHM with my now 13 month old.  By the time my husband comes home between 7-8pm I am exhausteddddddd.
 
I worked through my first pregnancy and I ALWAYS carried crackers and sprite everywhere.  Kept some in my desk too and would eat a small piece any time I was queasy.
 
I would do ink sprite for a sugar boost too which helped with the headaches.
 
YOU CAN DO THIS!!!  The first trimester was the most exhausting trimester for me until about 34 weeks (then I was tired again).  But I had a second wind during my second trimester and most of my third hahaha

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I’m a silversmith and work FT from my home studio, so while my schedule is semi-flexible, it’s still been tough. I have lead times to meet and have been struggling because I’m so sick. I have been able to turn down elaborate custom pieces for a few weeks, that saves me from being at the bench for long stretches, so that’s been good. 
I’m def looking forward to the 2nd trimester and feeling human again!

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Since I have started taking Unisom and B6 at night,  I function better than before.  Before, I would feel queasy and sluggish.  I take my full hour break now when I used to take enough just to eat.

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I work with OB doctors so they understand me and even spoil me. I get a hour break so i eat take a nap.

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