Chronic oversleeping
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Nova Scotia Bear (nsb…@iname.com) wrote: : Have you tried going to bed earlier? : : Do you have any other symptoms? Excessive daytime sleepiness? : Headaches upon waking in the morning? How long does it take you to get : to sleep? Is there anything else that may be related to your : sleeping/waking that has changed in the last few months? : : Curiously, : : Colin Note, I’m a different Guy. I have a similair problem. I oversleep readily. I have horrid headaches when trying to get up, so much so, I go back to sleep. If I force myself up, sometimes the headaches will get worse, and my vision will go dark, but after a few minutes, I’ll be sorta ok. Tired, and not fully cognitive, but at least I’m there. I try and set a regular sleep schedule, but as a college student, that’s really a pipe dream. Doesn’t help that I’m a super light sleeper when trying to fall asleep. Every night, I’ll go to bed within 1/2 of midnight, and I’m lucky if I fall asleep by 4. Have been this way since I was a little kid. So, although I may spend 10 hours in bed, I’m lucky to be getting 6 hours of real sleep. When I finally do fall asleep, it becomes very difficult for me to wake up. The problem gets much worse during the winter, and almost dissapears middle of the summer. I used to get up naturally, without headaches/ etc around 8-9am every morning this summer, regardless of what time I went to bed. Actually, every summer, until close to mid september, I can go to sleep at any time, and wake up within an hour of a several different times. I have 1 automatic wake-up around 6:00 am. Headacheless, etc…, but very tired. If I wake up, I’ll develope a horrid migrain within 30 minutes. This is a normal wake up, pretty much every night, regardless of time of year. I have a second automatic wake up around 9:00, but only in summer. Starting in april, ending in September. The automatic wake-up fails on rainy or cloudy days, or on days that I draw the blinds. I now do my best to keep my shades up, so that in the morning I awaken, if it’s sunny enough outside. Rare in massachusetts. But now, 8-9 am is a dream. I’m only up at that time if I’ve stayed awake, or used a melotonin pill, and the melotonin pill only gives me a slightly better chance of waking up on time, and a slightly greater probability of falling asleep before 4:00 am. I would kill for regular sleep. I went to our College’s Mental health place about this, and the doctor said he thiks I have phase delay sleep disorder. Told me to sleep at a regular time each night. Not of any help whatsoever. He said he could refer me to a sleep specialist in Boston, but Boston is far to a college kid without a car…. Any ideas? — Imran H Peerbhai http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~peerbhai peerb…@student.umass.edu
Response:
Tell someone to call you when you are supposed to get up and talk to them until you wake up. Us insomniacs will call you, we’re always up!
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Imran Peerbhai wrote:
I have a similair problem. > [snip] > The problem gets much worse during the winter, and almost dissapears > middle of the summer. I used to get up naturally, without headaches/ etc > around 8-9am every morning this summer, regardless of what time I went to > bed. Actually, every summer, until close to mid september, I can go to > sleep at any time, and wake up within an hour of a several different times.
I’m no expert, but the summer /winter thing makes me think of SED, Seasonal <something or other> Disorder. It’s related to the fact that there is less "real" daylight in the winter than in the summer. There might be some medications for it, but the usual treatment is to spend some time during the day under bright light. I think it has to be high temperature light like a halogen torchierre for it to work. Have you looked into this? > I would kill for regular sleep. I went to our College’s Mental health > place about this, and the doctor said he thiks I have phase delay sleep > disorder. Told me to sleep at a regular time each night. Not of any > help whatsoever.
Can you explain "phase delay sleep disorder"? Sounds like it might be my problem, but I’m not familiar with the term.
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Mike Williams <mi…@x2.alliance.net> wrote in article <364D0003.2492D…@x2.alliance.net>… <snip> | | I’m no expert, but the summer /winter thing makes me think of SED, Seasonal | <something or other> Disorder. It’s related to the fact that there is less | "real" daylight in the winter than in the summer. There might be some | medications for it, but the usual treatment is to spend some time during the | day under bright light. I think it has to be high temperature light like a | halogen torchierre for it to work. Have you looked into this? | <snip> The term is SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. Here is a link to a web site about SAD: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/7061/sadhome.html | | Can you explain "phase delay sleep disorder"? Sounds like it might be my | problem, but I’m not familiar with the term. | Here is a link to a web site about ‘delayed sleep phase disorder: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1123/dsps.html I hope these references help you. Good luck. Kent E. Taylor (Mongo)
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Lately (okay, for months), I’ve had a problem with oversleeping. I have a lot of work to do, but I wind up sleeping so late I get further and further behind. I am almost never late for work, since I set my alarm for about 3 hours before I have to be at work, but I usually sleep in an additional hour or two, so I wind up being rushed. I’ve experimented with multiple alarm clocks, but (to make a very long story short) when I get up to turn one off, I turn them all off and crawl back into bed. I even set the stereo to turn on to a rock station: I can sleep through it now. I’m losing countless hours of productivity (effectively one work day per week), and would like some advice. Please Cc: your replies to me via e-mail, as I will probably not see messages sent only to this newsgroup. Thanks in advance for your input!
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Have you tried going to bed earlier? Do you have any other symptoms? Excessive daytime sleepiness? Headaches upon waking in the morning? How long does it take you to get to sleep? Is there anything else that may be related to your sleeping/waking that has changed in the last few months? Curiously, Colin – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Mike Blackwell <mike.blackw…@viclink.com> wrote: > Lately (okay, for months), I’ve had a problem with oversleeping. I have a > lot of work to do, but I wind up sleeping so late I get further and further > behind. I am almost never late for work, since I set my alarm for about 3 > hours before I have to be at work, but I usually sleep in an additional > hour or two, so I wind up being rushed. > I’ve experimented with multiple alarm clocks, but (to make a very long > story short) when I get up to turn one off, I turn them all off and crawl > back into bed. I even set the stereo to turn on to a rock station: I can > sleep through it now. > I’m losing countless hours of productivity (effectively one work day per > week), and would like some advice. Please Cc: your replies to me via > e-mail, as I will probably not see messages sent only to this newsgroup. > Thanks in advance for your input!
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