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Reply: Sleeps well, but can't wake up without 9+ hours of...

Have you had a sleep study? The daytime portion of my sleep study (MSLT) was the most telling as it showed...

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Idiopathic Hypersomnia - great resources and supp...

I just posted to the Resources section here with a link to the Living with Hypersomnia website and an...

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Idiopathic Hypersomnia - great resources and supp...

I just posted to the Resources section here with a link to the Living with Hypersomnia website and an...

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Reply: Idiopathic Hypersomnia

I just posted to the Resources section here with a link to the Living with Hypersomnia website and an...

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Living with Hypersomnia

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Please help!! My 6 years old is wobbly, and his s...

I am not sure what this may be. He has had night terrors and bad dreams for 1.5 month now and he is exhausted....

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Please help!! My 6 years old is wobbly, and his s...

I am not sure what this may be. He has had night terrors and bad dreams for 1.5 month now and he is exhausted....

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Please help!! My 6 years old is wobbly, and his s...

I am not sure what this may be. He has had night terrors and bad dreams for 1.5 month now and he is exhausted....

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Please help!! My 6 years old is wobbly, and his s...

I am not sure what this may be. He has had night terrors and bad dreams for 1.5 month now and he is exhausted....

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Please help!! My 6 years old is wobbly, and his s...

I am not sure what this may be. He has had night terrors and bad dreams for 1.5 month now and he is exhausted....

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Reply: twitching

This may sound silly, however, I have had twitching of the right leg for MANY years now. I describe them as...

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Cpap

Still trying to use cpap machine. have allergies that prevent me from getting the proper therapy. Nose itches...

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Cpap

Still trying to use cpap machine. have allergies that prevent me from getting the proper therapy. Nose itches...

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Do I have Tourrette's Disorder (TD)?

I just watched a video on YouTube that was about someone and a couple of ticks that his son had. At one point...

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sleep trouble

I am 40 year old female. For about three years now I wake up at night feeling like my body has forgotten...

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Reply: CPAP has stopped helping

That auto DPSP machine sounds awesome. I am using one for 2 weeks under dr. supervision and I find it very...

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Reply: How do you behave without sleep?

Under 6 hours, quite irritable,emotions right up front with difficulty expressing them appropriately. No...

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Yawning

I did yawn reading it,always thought actors & actresses yawned to stretch their vocal cords and reduce...

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Low Income Sleep Specialist/ Disorder Clinic

I am a student with no income/health insurance/medical and need an evaluation from a sleep specialist but cannot...

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Do my sleep habits accurately exhibit Non 24-Hour ...

PREFACE I'm a 19-year-old studying the ins and outs of business as a full-time employee at a shop near my...

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PREFACE
I'm a 19-year-old studying the ins and outs of business as a full-time employee at a shop near my home, where I live alone. I have suffered through many mental ailments throughout my life, namely depression and anxiety. I do not believe these factors impact my sleep schedule, but possibly the inverse. I have lots of sleep trouble and it negatively impacts my work life and, on a smaller scale, my social life. The only medication I am taking is Adderall and these problems have not changed since starting it.

DAY-TO-DAY
I end up going to sleep at anywhere from 8pm to 5am when I work on the proceeding day. This depends on how tired I am, which seems to not correlate with the previous night's sleep. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, but it is not a consistency. It is usually due to thirst or to use the restroom. I wake up for my job at about 9:40am, giving me ten minutes to get ready for the eight minute drive to arrive at 10:00am. I am consistently late, arriving at 10:01am to 10:20am because I have trouble waking up. I have tried to give myself more time to get ready, waking up as early as 8:00am, but to no avail. I am generally tired throughout the day until the Adderall I take kicks in. I do not take it for energy purposes, I take it as intended for concentration. If I do not take it, I have trouble fully waking up and remain drowsy.

Prior to starting my job, I was enrolled in college. I dropped out after a single semester for endless reasons. I would often nap throughout the day and skip classes due to sleepiness. Since the schedules shifted so hectically (e.g. Monday - 5pm class, Tuesday - 10am class, Wednesday - 3pm class), it was too much effort to maintain any semblance of a sleep schedule. I slept as I pleased, which was literally at any time of day with seemingly no rhyme or reason other than my body telling me to.

On the weekends I do not work, so I tend to go to bed depending on my level of sleepiness. I get the impression that if I did not work, my sleep schedule would shift back to how it was in college; my body would tell me to sleep at any time of day. I go to sleep anywhere from 6pm to 7am and sleep until I wake up, which can be anywhere from 12am to 5pm. I consistently wake up earlier than I want to on the weekends, often opting to go back to bed. This has caused me to miss a few dates with my girlfriend of two years, who I do not yet live with. I am always tired for a few hours after waking up, but my drowsiness goes away about half of the time.

SYMPTOMS SUMMARY

Bedtime that changes daily based on level of sleepiness.
Unpredictable / erratic sleepiness, not correlating with previous sleep.
Drowsiness / low energy levels throughout the day.
Time management trouble (missing engagements).

CLOSING
If I do not have Non 24-Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder, I would very much like to know so I can accurately pinpoint the issue. If I have another sleeping disorder, I would like to know. I am sick of having trouble with sleeping. Please help.View Thread

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Somnapure PM is Great - Beware of phonies

Yes, buying direct from PeakLife is expensive AND they keep trying to sucker you into an "automated monthly...

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Fisher wallace machine

Hello. I just wanted to say that Im on day #19 of using the Fisher Wallace machine and I have to say Im...

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Fisher wallace machine

Hello. I just wanted to say that Im on day #19 of using the Fisher Wallace machine and I have to say Im...

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Restless Legs after stopping Lipitor

Last year I stopped taking Lipitor, to try and have a baby. Since that time I have had terrible restless...

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Reply: Insomnia after brain surgery

I AM ON KLONOPIN 1 MG EVERY NIGHT FOR PANIC ATTACKS & STILL HAVE TO TAKE XANAX OCCASSIONALLY. IT IS...

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Reply: Sleep apnea?

For me, when I did a sleep clinic, I was told I stopped breathing more than 50 times an hour so the full cpap...

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I just spit in my sleep? help??

So im a 18 year old male, and right before waking up, my mind or something,(could be a dream) was just...

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Reply: How to STAY Asleep?

could you ask your colleague for the resources for new york and connecticut for sleep psychologists.

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Reply: Sleep Testing Protocols for patients taking Sleepi...

I think you should try the program from Dr Stevens , Its work, take a look at [a name="OLE_LINK5"> [a...

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Reply: Somnapure did not work!

I think you should try the program from Dr Stevens , Its work, take a look at [a name="OLE_LINK5"> [a...

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