[sunshine74]

My days and nights are completely switched right now! Any suggestions on how to get back to normal???? I am on trazadone for sleep, but it doesnt help at all. It seems to make me sleepy HOURS after I take it, like 5 or 6. Is it possible it takes THAT long for it to start working??? Surely not, I would think.... I dont know. I dont go to sleep until around 5-7 am and wake up around 2-4 pm. My husband gets tired of me sleeping all day and to be honest so do I! I have social anxiety so I rarely leave the house but I would still like to have a little more sunshine in my day instead of waking up and then it getting dark a few hours later. I tried staying up all night and not going to sleep at all the next morning but I get so sick when I do that, like throwing up and such. I have actually thought about going to walmart in the middle of the night, bc I am up anyway and that might help with my social anxiety bc there would be hardly any traffic or people in the store. LOL. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

[unaluna]

I am stuck in the same place right now, falling asleep at 3 am sleeping till 11. A little better than you but not much. I think it's a summer thing. Do you have blackout curtains in the bedroom, that might help.

[kaliope]

Can you try taking your trazadone in the middle of the day so it kicks in at a reasonable hour of the night? Do you avoid all cafienne?that was a big one for me. Just some ideas

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[Nessa213]

When I take trazodone it takes about an hour to work. But for me it doesn't work in an entirely different way. I'll sleep for a couple of hours and then be AWAKE for a couple hours.

Like kaliope said, how much caffiene do you drink? How long have you been on this "nocturnal" sleeping schedule? If it's been a while it might take a long time to get your body used to a different schedule. It'd be like moving half way across the world and have to immediately adjust to the new schedule.

Maybe a first step would be to try to adjust your wake up time if that's possible. Going to sleep (for me at least) I have almost no control over. But if you could start getting up earlier and earlier you're still getting some sleep and hopefully the bedtime time would just naturally follow. Perhaps?

[~Christina]

Speak to your pdoc about maybe pulsing you with a pretty strong sleep med that will kinda put you down, few weeks of that should allow you do switch back to a night time sleep daytime awake schedule.

[redbandit]

Originally Posted by sunshine74

My days and nights are completely switched right now! Any suggestions on how to get back to normal???? I am on trazadone for sleep, but it doesnt help at all. It seems to make me sleepy HOURS after I take it, like 5 or 6. Is it possible it takes THAT long for it to start working??? Surely not, I would think.... I dont know. I dont go to sleep until around 5-7 am and wake up around 2-4 pm. My husband gets tired of me sleeping all day and to be honest so do I! I have social anxiety so I rarely leave the house but I would still like to have a little more sunshine in my day instead of waking up and then it getting dark a few hours later. I tried staying up all night and not going to sleep at all the next morning but I get so sick when I do that, like throwing up and such. I have actually thought about going to walmart in the middle of the night, bc I am up anyway and that might help with my social anxiety bc there would be hardly any traffic or people in the store. LOL. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

I have the same problem getting my days and nights mixed up. It's no fun, missing out on life in the day. When I stay up all night it trigger my mania