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Same. My stutter gets significantly worse without sleep and without coffee. I think a lot of my fluency is caused by using techniques and without sleep it is harder to have the energy to keep up with ...

I’ve been getting into a routine in the past month. I’m back in college and we need to be there for 9am so I’ve been going to bed at 11 and waking up at 7:30. I’ve never been good at sleeping so I’ve ...

Very true I'm a moderate stutterer and mine gets much worse when I lack sleep. And it sucks because I hate sleep...

Im bad for revenge sleep procrastination. Which definitely affects my stutter. But I do shift work so sleeping properly is already an uphill battle. I find working on reducing anxiety has the best af...

When I don’t get sleep it just makes my anxiety sky rocket and I can tell my body tense up faster than ever, therefore whenever I have any anxious thoughts about stuttering on no sleep it’s almost lik...

Not getting sleep makes my stutter crazy worse for sure.

Not getting sleep makes my stutter crazy worse for sure. Are you disciplined enough to get a good 8 hours? Y’all should monitor this and see if improvement is seen with better sleep...

My husband stutters. My main advice is to remember that you aren’t his mom or his speech therapist. With my husband, when we were dating, I had to recognize that however he wanted to handle things was...

Hi, unfortunately he has not. He sees a speech therapist every week but it doesn't really make a difference. He does stutter less... Either that or we just got used to it ha! No i think it has gotten ...

I’d say just know that talking is a big effort. Interrupting him or asking him to explain something that is ultimately irrelevant is really frustrating. I love my wife and she is amazing but this wa...

I don't really have any specific recommendations. I have a feeling that tackling the issue of confidence is individual for each person. What helped me was doing gut healing via diet, a lot of juicing,...

What's helped with me is focus on trying to change the way a word sounds. If you know trigger spots draw it out and shorten out. Stay away from massive amounts of caffeine. Deep breaths, even when ta...

Does anyone's stutter come and go during different times of the year?

Does anyone's stutter come and go during different times of the year? Hey everyone, I'm not really sure if anyone has experienced this before but I've realized that my stutter can be very noticeable ...

If I don’t get enough sleep i forget to use my skills to reduce my stuttering so I always stutter more...

So from what I’m learning here that tiredness has an effect stuttering. Something I’ve realized while going to work with only 4 hours of sleep thx for the input...

being tired and stressed out makes it the worst. if i know i have a day where i’m gonna talk a lot the day before i try to get atleast 8 hours. i also take gabapentin 2400 mg a day and it seems to hel...

For me its worst when im sick/tired/stressed. And during the holidays for some reason i stutter up a storm...

I have that same problem, and even when I try super hard to be fluent using strategies it can be very tiring and then I need down time...

I do this if I'm just out of energy and feeling super done with stuttering. Sometimes you gotta be pragmatic and I don't think anyone can judge us for that. One of the things about having a condition ...

I would recommend you aggressively work on his stutter when he’s younger. Mine didn’t bother me when I was younger and I didn’t think about it much. Therefore, I didn’t work on improving it. Once I st...

The volume may be from him trying to get the word out. When the volume is high, does it seem like he's pushing/forcing through the word? That's very common for stutterers who block, sometimes they'll ...