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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
Hi bluebicyle. In my experience, sleeping 13 hours in a row was part of the problem leading to daytime sleepiness. It's important to get the right amount, meaning 9 hours max, in my case. Have you tried forcing yourself to stay up later and get up with an alarm? It may initially seem tough, but it's possible after an hour of getting up you may feel better.
I have had cases in the past when I was stable (or even a bit depressed) when lowering my sedating med's dose (Seroquel XR, in my case) helped not only cut hypersomnia, but even depression. I only did that with my psychiatrist's approval, though.
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Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm sleepy from oversleeping.
I would talk to my psychiatrist if he weren't inept. Virtually everyone here agreed I should just get a new one because he was saying bizarre, nonsensical sh_t, and his weird assistant kept recommending weird OTC stuff to fix sleep, when the sleep problems should've been solved with med changes, not with Benadryl etc. I'm actually going to work with my therapist this Friday to transfer to a new pdoc.