How's your sleep cycle??

[skooooo]

I'm probably sleeping 10 hours a day. Does anyone else sleep that much?? I take naps during the day, and then stay up til about 11 at night or so.

what about you?????

[ThomCat]

1. I slept 15 hours today, including 2 naps.

Tomorrow I might have insomnia. :shrug:

Other than always being tired, my actual sleep cycle isn't much of a cycle. It's pretty damned irregular at this point.

[skooooo]

4. sorry to hear that..

What's a body to do???

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. It has 2 3/4 wheels

And 1 2/3 of 'em are bent.

[skooooo]

3. How many hours a day do you sleep??

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. 3

Or 19.

[ThomCat]

21. Sounds like we're on the same schedule.

If I could get there I'd come over in the middle of the night and keep you company. I'd even bring snacks. :9

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Spaghetti-O's!

:bounce:

[KitchenWitch]

5. Sleep is supposed to come in a cycle???

Who knew?

[Swede]

7. My routine is screwed up since I took 2 weeks off from work.

Can't sleep at night,sleepy at work. Once it's back I got to bed at 11pm and sleep 8 hours.

[Rhiannon12866]

24. This is my recommendation, my friend.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7938099&mesg_id=7938549

[pokerfan]

8. I'm good for about seven, tops

[XemaSab]

9. Not so good

Has it EVER been good?

No, not really. :(

[Captain Angry]

10. Mine has gone to hell.

180 job applications, 2 interviews will do that though.

I'm hoping that if I finally get a real job again that I'll be able to stop worrying about eating my savings and that will relax me enough to sleep well.

[moriah]

11. I can sleep 24+ hours in a row unassisted.

I work nights, and usually during my workweek can manage about 6-7 hours on an average day.

Then my first night off comes up, and I sleep. And sleep.

I usually go to bed about 10 AM on my day off and wake up sometime the next morning.

[sniffa]

12. About 6 hours a night

However, I usually pass out several times a day for 10-20 minute cat-naps.

[Lady Effingbroke]

13. fubar - shift work.

M T W T F S S
Week 1 N N N N O O O
Week 2 D D D O N N N
Week 3 O O O D D D D
Week 4 O O O O O O O

[amerikat]

14. sleep has a cycle?

tell me more. I'm a world class insomniac. I can go without sleep for 4 or 5 days. At some point I sleep.

[kat_kringle]

15. erg!

usually i'm a general 8 hour sleeper, but the humidity lately has been killing that, now i sleep about 10 hours a day.

also, yesterday i took an amtrak overnight to my hometown, and it was incredibly cold on board, and apparantly, if you ride in coach, you have to pay for a blanket.

so i didn't get much sleep, but hopefully i can make up for lost time some how.

[Seedersandleechers]

16. I wish I could sleep

more then the 4-5 hours that I do nightly. Sleep does not come easy so I just stay up and wake up accordingly.

[Lil Missy]

17. poop

[Manifestor_of_Light]

18. bad.

Delayed onset sleep cycle.
That means insomnia till 2 or 3 am, then sleep till 1 or 2 pm.

Eight hours is definitely not enough.

Have taken medication to sleep but what they give me isn't strong enough -- I've taken quite a few varieties.

[mcctatas]

19. 5-6 hours a night....

any more than that and I feel sluggish the whole next day....

[galledgoblin]

20. the heat throws me off

I have insomnia at night when it's cooler, and then around 11 am start to get progressively drowsy as the day grows warmer.

[Rhiannon12866]

23. If you want to reset your sleep cycle, try melatonin, recommended to people who cross time zones.

My doctor recommended it to me when I couldn't sleep and I gave it to my mother when she visited Australia and New Zealand and spent 24 hours on a plane. It's worked for me, and you can find it in any store that sells vitamins. My doctor said I could take up to 10 mg a night. Me, I sleep about 9 hours to feel okay. :-)

[femmocrat]

25. I have been doing the same thing.

Once school begins (next month) I am going to have a hard time adapting to staying awake all day.

I'm really a night owl and I love to sleep in. It's hard for me to get moving in the morning.

[galledgoblin]

26. xkcd: "GOOD MORNING"

http://www.xkcd.com/448/

[mvd]

27. I often sleep 9-9 1/2 hours

Sometimes 10. Might be getting too much sleep with the CPAP, because it seems I want to sleep more and more. And always feel kind of sleepy/foggy/spacey/tired.

[skooooo]

28. I think we need more sleep than we often get.

Your body knows what it needs, too bad society doesn't seem to care.

[mvd]

32. Yes, it could be

I'm just afraid to sleep more because it's already really hard to wake up.

[Kali]

31. When was your last test?

You might need a setting adjustment.

[mvd]

34. Had 2 sleep tests this year

9 was the recommended C-PAP pressure. I tried 7 and 8, and sometimes I wasn't as sleepy but woke up feeling worse physically.

[Kali]

36. why were you trying lower pressure than recommended?

I am at 13! But I am highly motivated. 40+ years of not sleeping right and the last 10 of really suffering made me fight to get on therapy. I don't even like to lie down to read without it. The only thing I miss is camping. Haven't got around to putting togeter a solar/battery set up.

[mvd]

40. I wonder if I still have events at night

Despite what the study said. Because I still wake up at least 2-3 times, and my brain feels kind of weird when I wake up. It was originally set at 11 and was reduced to 9 to see if the pressure was waking me up. So I reduced a bit more as an experiment. I could try 11 again.

[Kali]

42. I think the technicians or docs try to balance

out pressure vs. perfection. If it doesn't seem to bother you I would go with whatever they say or the higher. Lower would probably allow more "choking" I would think.

Have you tried different masks? I want to try some others but my budget is limited and mine works so I may ask Santa at xmas for a new one :think: :rofl:

[mvd]

43. I have a nasal mask and full face

The full face didn't seem to help. It seems my nose is the main culprit, so I use the nasal mask. :hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

29. I slept 10 hours Friday-Saturday, then fell asleep at 7pm and woke up at 10am.

Normally, I get about 6-6.5 a night, though.

[Kali]

30. effing GREAT. Now.

I used to "sleep" all the time (and would be up 6 to 10 times a night to go to the bathroom)and then still fall asleep all during the day. I also snored since I was a kid.

Now I sleep 7 to 8 hours straight through the night and occasionally nap during hot afternoons for 30 to 60 minutes. CPAP!

[skooooo]

33. Sounds heavenly.

I love to sleep...

:)

[Kali]

35. if you have insurance ask your doc about a sleep test

I don't have any and waited a long time before finally getting included in a study and part of the bennies were I got a used CPAP machine at the end. It was almost 9 months of suffering because I ended up being in a placebo group but the first night they put me on real pressure...WOW - I knew what I had been missing for MY ENTIRE LIFE!

[ghostsofgiants]

37. Erratic.

x(

[Midlodemocrat]

38. Not good. Going through a bout of insomnia and it sucks.

[sasquatch]

44. Buy some tylenol PM

[Midlodemocrat]

45. No thanks.

I can't take antihistamines.

[JackBeck]

39. Once the lambs stop screaming

6-7 hours a night, depending on my travel schedule. It's never a solid, uninterrupted sleep, thanks to hungry cats.

[mopinko]

41. usually 10-11. sometimes more. got a kid with a

free running clock. it kept him from finishing high school. at 22, he has managed to smooth it out enough to stay a day person, and go to college. but he has to be very disciplined to staying on schedule. melatonin helps him.
me, i have fibromyalgia, which may or may not be sleep related. but 12 hour nights are not uncommon for me. i'm a little influenced by the seasons, so i like summer, when i tend to get another hour or 2 out of a day. makes a big difference.
DH has apnea, but refuses a cpap, a bed wedge helps him a LOT. gets it down to very mild disturbance. he may be repeating his study, soon.
baby (age 15) has been struggling with teen sleep shift, coupled with school induced clock shock. pisses me off that schools care more about the stupid puritan work ethic than the sanity of their students. high school should start at noon. that is just a fact.

[GreenPartyVoter]

46. Screwy, but that's bipolar for ya.