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    Duh Can't stop over sleeping!

    I regularly sleep 12+ hours, and it is driving me crazy! I am missing school, work, and not to mention just wasting day after day sleeping so goddamn much! I set alarms, my boyfriend tries to wake me up through out the day, but I will feel completely exhausted and just fall back asleep again.

    I have a pretty messed up sleep schedule as it is. Twice a week I work until 5 AM, and don't get to sleep until around 7am or later (ealier?). During the week I work at a club that closes earlier and is closer, so I get to sleep around 3:30-4am. I have school at 11:30 Mon Wed and Fri, and at 1:30 on Tuesdays. But I try not to work until close if I have my 11:30 class the next day.
    So I can understand why I might be tired sometimes, but I feel like this is going way beyond that. Last week I slept for 7 1/2 hours (more if you count hitting snooze), woke up, went to school, came home and slept for 4 or 5 more hours! And it wasn't like I was bored or feeling lazy, I was just soooooo tired.

    Last night I fell asleep around 5am... and didn't get up today until almost 5:30pm (and this is after my boyfriend trying to wake me up through out the day). I missed an assignment for school that was due online at 5:00pm and I am really pissed and frustrated!

    I am a vegetarian, and I started eating meat occasionally to see if that would help but it hasn't.

    I don't know what to do! It has been going on for a while and has been really frustrating, but missing that assignment today has really made me pissed at myself. I have had perfect grades in that class so far, and now I mess it up over something stupid like this!

    I know I probably need to go see a doctor, but I'm waiting on my mom to send me our insurance information so I can do that. But any advice or anything to help me in the meantime would be very much appreciated!

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    Default Re: Can't stop over sleeping!

    I do this too! It's an annoying habit and a hard one to break. Oversleeping is what's causing you to feel tired.

    Don't know if this is great advice simply because I still oversleep a lot but try when you go to bed setting your alarm for 8 hours later then when you wake up play loud music to try and stop you falling asleep again. Hopefully listening to some good beats for a while will eventually motivate your arse out of bed or at least keep you awake so the lethargy of oversleeping can slowly be broken.

    Also exercising regularly will help give you more energy.

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    In addition to exercise, diet is key. Clean up your diet and eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. Also, drink a lot of water and then see how you feel. Vitamin B-12 also help with energy.
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    Default Re: Can't stop over sleeping!

    I oversleep, too, and I also have a weird work/school schedule... that can really mess you up. If it's been going on for so long, yeah, you should probably see a doctor. The first thing that comes to mind is anemia... they might draw blood to check your iron levels.

    You're probably getting enough exercise, from working that often. Are you eating enough fruits/veggies/proteins? Do you take a multivitamin?

    While you're waiting to see a doctor, you might want to try staying up, avoid naps, and drink coffee to train yourself to stay awake. Being on a schedule (even if you still work odd hours) is what they advise people with insomnia to do, and it's a good way to get your body used to sleeping normally again.

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    I personally think the time of year has a lot to do w/it, as does hormonal changes, period time


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    Default Re: Can't stop over sleeping!

    I'm a vegetarian too = ) But, if you are eating healthy, not junk then that's not the problem. In psych we just had a discussion about this..If you have not been getting regular good sleep in awhile then your body will just keep adding up the amount of time it will need to sleep..it's like how rollover minutes work..and so if you are exhausted and feel the need to sleep all the time, it's more than likely because you do. I've had this problem for awhile, but can't get around my schedule to just take a week off and sleep Lol...But yeah idk maybe this didn't help..But cheers anyway I hope you stop oversleeping soon!

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    When I lived at home with my parents I would over-sleep all the time. Looking back I am certain it is because I was so depressed and felt so invalidated.

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    Apnea. Will prevent REM sleep. You go to be your sleep 12 hours and your still exhausted. If your mind does not get down to REM sleep (Dream state) then your not getting any rest.

    Do you have that sensation of falling? Where your asleep and then feel like you are falling from a great height. If you have apnea, that is your body telling you to change position because you are not breathing.

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    I find it's really hard when you don't work a 9-5 job. When I used to work a "normal" job I got into a routine and regularly got up at 7am whether the alarm went off or not. Since camming for a living I find myself staying up throughout the night or going to sleep at 4am just because I have nothing specific to get up for. It is definately a case of more sleep makes me more tired and I then end up sleeping 12 hours or more every single night and still feeling tired. I get your frustration because it can feel like time flies by simply through sleeping so much.

    I'm pretty sure theres a condition where people find it really difficult to wake up on time. I can't remember the name of it but shouldn't be too hard to find on google. (Sorry I don't have the time to look for it now). I saw it on a television show a while ago where this kid couldn't wake up no matter how hard he tried and his parents naturally thought he was lazy but then he got diagnosed with this condition. I remember thinking maybe I have that because I find it really hard to get up in the morning. I will try to find out what it's called.

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    OK so did some research not exactly sure which one it was. There's a lot of sleep disorders out there!

    Try googling idiopathic hypersomnia

    or look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadi...sleep_disorder

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    The advice about diet, exercise, and regular patterns is the best I can give...but there is also one small trick that I have used in the past which is super simple, but has really worked! If you find that you sleep through alarms, or wake up just long enough to turn it off and then roll over, it could be useful.

    Find an alarm that wakes you up (I use my phone) and keep changing the ringer every couple of weeks (I find that after a while, I get used to one sound and it no longer wakes me as well). Turn it up as loud as you can, and then put it in the hallway. If it wakes you up, and you have to actually get out of bed and walk through the room to get to it and turn it off, I find that by the time I get there, I am actually awake enough that I can power through and just not go back to bed.
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    Default Re: Can't stop over sleeping!

    sierra, are you depressed? i believe oversleeping and undersleeping are both manifestions of something else being amiss.

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    Thanks everyone for the advice. I do work kind of a lot and I thought that counted for exercise, but I could probably work something more into my schedule. Maybe going for a walk or messing around on my stripper pole a little more?

    As for my diet, I could be better. It got kinda bad but I've been cleaning it up. I was pregnant a few months back (had an abortion) and I really let my diet go to hell because of nausea and generally being pissed at life because of hormones and because I hated being pregnant. I let myself have ice cream for like 5 meals a day (seriously) and ever since I've had really bad sugar cravings (which I never did before), but I recently started to cut way back and try to break that habit and it's been going pretty well.

    I have pet rabbits that I feed fresh veggies to daily so lots of times I will snack on their food, which is stuff like snow peas, green peppers, kale sometimes. Besides stealing my rabbits' food I eat a lot of salads and some smoothies. I take medication that can kill my appetite and make it hard to eat sometimes, but those things are easy to get down. But I am also easily tempted by fried/salty foods... need to resist.

    I will say that I've had this problem on and off for a long time, so that made me think it wasn't diet related but I could be wrong. I just am really starting to get fed up with it. I have too much school and work to sleep so frakking much.



    Quote Originally Posted by ArmySGT. View Post
    Apnea. Will prevent REM sleep. You go to be your sleep 12 hours and your still exhausted. If your mind does not get down to REM sleep (Dream state) then your not getting any rest.

    Do you have that sensation of falling? Where your asleep and then feel like you are falling from a great height. If you have apnea, that is your body telling you to change position because you are not breathing.
    I don't know about sleep apnea, but I do have episodes of sleep paralysis pretty often and I know this is very common for people with narcolepsy. I don't know if I have narcolepsy or not, I've thought of looking into it but the medications they give to treat it are antidepressants and stimulants, both of which I already take for unrelated issues, so I figured what's the point? But now that I'm reminded of this maybe it's worth mentioning to my doctor... Thanks



    Quote Originally Posted by ManyRoses View Post
    The advice about diet, exercise, and regular patterns is the best I can give...but there is also one small trick that I have used in the past which is super simple, but has really worked! If you find that you sleep through alarms, or wake up just long enough to turn it off and then roll over, it could be useful.

    Find an alarm that wakes you up (I use my phone) and keep changing the ringer every couple of weeks (I find that after a while, I get used to one sound and it no longer wakes me as well). Turn it up as loud as you can, and then put it in the hallway. If it wakes you up, and you have to actually get out of bed and walk through the room to get to it and turn it off, I find that by the time I get there, I am actually awake enough that I can power through and just not go back to bed.
    Yeah, I do sleep through my alarm sometimes. Another problem I have is that my alarm will be going off, and I'll be so out of it from being so tired that when it finally wakes me up I won't understand what it is and turn it off without realizing that it means it's time to wake up! I've tried an app that makes me do a math equation before I can snooze, math makes me angry in the mornings. Putting it in the hallway is a great idea.



    Quote Originally Posted by camille27 View Post
    sierra, are you depressed? i believe oversleeping and undersleeping are both manifestions of something else being amiss.
    I have depression, but I've had it for as long as I can remember and I am treating it with medication with pretty good results. I'm actual fairly happy overall right now, though I do get stressed with school and working so much (which could very well have something to do with it I suppose). What's frustrating is if I could could stop wasting so much time sleeping and use it to be productive I think I'd be a lot less stressed!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sierra. View Post
    Yeah, I do sleep through my alarm sometimes. Another problem I have is that my alarm will be going off, and I'll be so out of it from being so tired that when it finally wakes me up I won't understand what it is and turn it off without realizing that it means it's time to wake up!
    Yep, I do this a lot! If I'm too tired, it doesn't matter that the alarm woke me up cuz all I'll be thinking is "why is it making that noise?" and I'll hit it like a monkey until it shuts off, then instantly fall back down asleep.

    I would get your iron levels checked and try to stay on a schedule. Do you have a break from school coming up? Maybe try not to work those days either and just take the time to relax and recharge and get back on track. It's possible that by not getting enough sleep on the days you work so late and have class early that you've built up a bunch of sleep debt and your body is having a hard time dealing with it, no matter how much you sleep other days.

    I know exactly where you're coming from. I sleep far too much also, and I hate it. I feel like I waste so much freakin' time. I think for me it's also a matter of not having the amount of free time I want/need. When I didn't have a job and wasn't in school for a couple months, I slept about 10 hours a day, but was able to be productive the rest of the time. But nowadays, I spend so much time at a job I hate and commuting to that stupid job, and rarely get days off, that when I do have a day off I don't want to do anything that's productive. This lack of motivation I think is actually what makes me feel tired because I want a reason to not get up, get dressed, and go do what needs to be done. So I lie around, trying to "wake up" but then all the lying around just makes me tired again so I go back to sleep. I don't know how much you think that applies to you - just thought I'd share, since you seem like your life is a little overwhelming at the moment also.

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