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Old Jun 03, 2013, 11:36 PM
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I miss sleep. But I'm only ever tired sometimes! Right now, for example, it's 11:30pm and I am wide awake. At 3:30pm I was a bit tired.

I'm normally someone who goes to bed around 9:30pm (I need 8-9 hours to be fully rested, and my alarm is set for 6am). Of course, I've got terrible stretches where I don't sleep or sleep too much or wake up all the time or wake up hours early and have nightmares.

Currently I've been doing this simultaneously: not falling asleep on time. waking up ages before I need to. waking up multiple times a night. loads of weird dreams and nightmares. Every night! (for example, last week I woke up at 2am and was up for the day!)

Since starting on meds I have kept track with a mood chart (for some reason had never thought to look up something like that online! Kept trying on paper and failing miserably!) (the mood chart is my attachment)

It sort of makes me laugh to look at it and see that in the past month I've had two nights that were a normal amount of sleep. One of which was me passing out when I got home from work and slept for a few hours. Then woke up for two hours and went back to bed. So it wasn't like it was a solid sleep!

I'm getting rather frustrated. Everyone thinks it's amazing how much energy I have when getting SO little sleep! Personally it's annoying the crap out of me because there is NOTHING TO DO in my flat by myself.

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Old Jun 04, 2013, 08:33 AM
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Ever had a sleep apnea test? Best thing that ever happened to me; it corrected a loss
of REM sleep (which "charges our batteries"), and corrects problems in our sleep cycles with
treatment. My doctor recommended it; barring that, some of use Klonopin (Clonazepam) as a sleep aid. That helps.

And "the lemon thing" will work after a day or so of trying it if you wish.

Hope you find the answer.
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Old Jun 04, 2013, 08:37 AM
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Don't be afraid to share your sleep problem with your psychiatrist. You may end up being prescribed a sleeping pill, like I have. I have been taking it every night.
By the way, kudos to you for being able to do mood monitoring for as long as you have. I tried it, and could not find rhyme or reason to my moods. I switched to mood journaling, and have been doing better that way.
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Old Jun 04, 2013, 08:48 AM
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The opposite to me - all i ever do is sleep
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Old Jun 04, 2013, 10:17 AM
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i'm used to having no sleep.

i know it's no good for me, but it's the way it is...

weird being the only member of the family up at 1 in the morning watching the shopping channel... i'll tell you that much lol
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Old Jun 04, 2013, 11:28 AM
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I'm in a similar boat. I go to lay down around 9:30 every night but I don't actually ge to sleep until around 2 a.m. I just try to relax and stay in a calm mood. My alarm goes off at 6:00 but I hit snooze until about 6:45.... So, I'm getting about 4-5 hours a night right now.....

My sleep aid isn't going to bed until around 5 a.m. and that's part of the problem. (My husband's presance in a room helps me sleep, but he moved his desk out of our room again because he thought I wasn't sleeping.... he doesn't believe that it's worse when he's not there at all....) I keep trying to overcome it, but before I met him I used to sleep on this same pattern I have right now, or less sometimes. I don't know what the heck it is about him that makes me sleep.
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Old Jun 04, 2013, 04:37 PM
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I go through different cycles. Never really know when it's going to change or for how long!

Last night was 1:30-5:30. With vivid dreams and no interuption. And was wired ALL day long! Probably drove my students nuts!
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Old Jun 04, 2013, 08:19 PM
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weird being the only member of the family up at 1 in the morning watching the shopping channel... i'll tell you that much lol
I have done this more times than I could even count!

I have this VERY strange quirk (always have had) where I prefer (almost to the point of needing) everyone else in the house to be asleep before I can even consider falling asleep.

Me and sleep have a very love/hate kind of thing.
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Old Jun 04, 2013, 09:04 PM
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oh, the nightmares! I've had several over the past couple of weeks. no sleep disturbance except for today, but damn i wish the bizarre dreams would stop! I'm with you!
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