How many of you have trouble getting up in the morning and what do you do to get up? I have trouble getting out of bed because if feel I left incomplete thoughts and can't stop thinking and wandering, also, I try to "finish" incomplete dreams or analize them. My husband teases me about not being a good mother or wife for getting out of bed so late. I feel bad, but can't help it. :(

Are you taking ADD meds? Some people who take stimulants drag themselves out of bed, pop the pill, go back to bed, and then find it easier to get up once the meds have kicked in. I try to take mine as soon as I get up. I've always woken up groggy and had trouble getting "with it" in the morning. Now I'm forced to get up by my children, but if I run out of meds mornings are still quite difficult for me. It's a common ADD trait ... our sleep cycles are just not the same as non-ADDers'.

I have trouble getting into bed and getting out of bed. If I'm in bed at 10:30 and read until after 11:00 some time I'm ok getting up the next day but I've never been one to be really sharp on rising.

Like krisp, I get my meds into me first thing and then I know the fog isn't going to last too much longer. I almost never rise feeling rested. I'm not aware of dreaming much.
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I have no trouble getting out of bed. I can get right up and I'm usually very "perky". My problem is getting and staying asleep, either my mind races and i can't get to sleep or a very vivid dream will wake me and I'll have a very restless sleep.

same here, I have always had trouble wakeing up. I never had trouble falling asleep. I always felt I got more done in my head while sleeping. But when I wake up my thoughts are still spinning and I feel like I haven't slept all night. Since I have been on medication I have taken my meds at night and I have been getting good night of sleep. Now he has me takeing my meds in the morning and afternoon and sometime during the night it's wearing off and I am having problems getting up again.

I usually have no trouble getting out of bed if I remember right away that there's something important happening that day. Otherwise, sometimes it's hard for me to clear my head enough to not stop pressing the snooze button. ack!

I have trouble with both going to bed and with getting up. If I'm distracted by a book, movie, conversation, series of thoughts, etc., then I can't get to sleep. When it is time to rise, I'm usually deep in the throes of a dream I don't want to leave, or I'm too tired from being up too late the night before, both of which make it difficult to get out of bed.

woah-as far back as i can remember, ive never been a morning person.
never been one to hit the sack too easily either. ive tried to arrainge my life around my (lack of) sleep habits-usually working 2nd shift, so even if i awake at the crack of noon i wont be late. of course getting out of the sack is trouble too. if it werent for dog telling me she needs out, dont know how long id veg.
(had her 14 years now).
the morning fog wont life until ive had my coffee & first round of meds.
im not sure how i did it pre-med:) , but wife tells me im usually more pleasant now in the am.

I used to struggle with all of the above. Insomnia, or what I like to call busy mind syndrome. ;) Deep sleeper, my parents used to say that I could sleep through a fire house alarm. And that's true.

Here's what I did: Melatonin around two hours before I actually want to go to sleep, kicks in a natural rhythmn...and helps keep me asleep throughout the night. My sister tried that suggestion with my nephews, and she's amazed at the positive results.

I live alone, and for years got into trouble with working situations oversleeping from time to time. Regular alarm clocks simply don't work. They could be loud enough to hear for ten blocks, and I'd still sleep.

I have a bright halegeon light that is set by a timer, it comes on thirty minutes before my alarm. Most of the time, I come out of REM sleep before the alarm. For an alarm I use my cell phone. It's very quiet. I haven't quite figured out why that one actually is enough on it's own, excepting the varying tones.

I have problems getting outta bed. Usually i just lay there and daydream untill the coffees ready. Other times i throw myself on my computer and get some music playing. I find that music makes it alot easier to get stuff started such as getting in the shower, etc. I don't take my meds untill i am at work.

I used to struggle with all of the above. Insomnia, or what I like to call busy mind syndrome. ;) Deep sleeper, my parents used to say that I could sleep through a fire house alarm. And that's true.

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I live alone, and for years got into trouble with working situations oversleeping from time to time. Regular alarm clocks simply don't work. They could be loud enough to hear for ten blocks, and I'd still sleep. I'm the same way. I'm an extremely heavy sleeper, can sleep through anything, probably a fire house alarm. I have two alarms, one extra loud one next to the bed and one normal one at the foot of the bed. My poor husband, who is a moderate-light sleeper has to deal with nudging and groaning at me every morning to get my alarms cuz I don't hear them. I've found that if I can get at least 8 hours of sleep, I'll hear my alarms...but I have really bad sleeping habits so 8 hours is extremely rare. And I know that's part of the reason I'm such a dead sleeper in the mornings. Nasty cycle.

I don't take meds for ADD. I take meds only for bipolar for now.

I have always had trouble falling asleep and waking up in the morning. I also am usually quite lazy in the morning and more energetic later in the day. But although meds seem to help me get sleepy at night, I still sleep until late in the morning. I feel rested only after ten hours or so.

I too have trouble waking up. I take my meds right away. I sometimes have trouble sleeping but not very often at all. Usually I can fall asleep easily, but get distracted and get to bed late. I am also usually more lazy in the morning than at night.

For a long time I slept for 9-12 hrs and thought I needed to. 9 is ok sometimes but more than that is not good. I didn't realize at the time it was making me more tired and lazy through the day when I slept too much. It was hard at first but now I only sleep between 7-9 hours. Usually 8. Now my body is used to it and gets up naturally.

I have problems going to sleep and waking up. I don't know why.

In the morning, I don't have racing thoughts at all. Im a zombie for the first 3 or 4 hours after waking up. No matter what time of day it is or even after a nap, I'm dead and useless the first few hours after waking. That's why I never take naps.

When I was in kindergarten, I was the only kid that didn't sleep at naptime. I was angry because Id never heard of a nap. I was like, why is the teacher making us go to sleep? Its not even nightime!

I used to struggle with all of the above. Insomnia, or what I like to call busy mind syndrome. ;) Deep sleeper, my parents used to say that I could sleep through a fire house alarm. And that's true.

Here's what I did: Melatonin around two hours before I actually want to go to sleep, kicks in a natural rhythmn...and helps keep me asleep throughout the night. My sister tried that suggestion with my nephews, and she's amazed at the positive results.

Here here! I also take Melatonin and it really helps me get into a regular sleep cycle. 2 hours before bedtime is just about right.

I am a slow mover in the morning. Profoundly. It seems as if I can never get my cycle on target. I have come close, however. I take a 200mg caffeine pill in the morning, along with a glass of iced tea with ginkgo biloba and eleuthero ("siberian ginseng") (known as GinkgoSharp by Celestial Seasonings, which is now no longer available). At noon at work, I generally take another 120mg of gingo and 300mg of panax ginseng. I do not consume any caffeine during the day besides the pill in the morning. At night, I sometimes consume a combination of chamomile tea and valerian, but it is not usually necessary now. Provided that I do not engage in any intellectual activites after about 9:00pm, I generally am ready to sleep by about 10:30pm so I can wake up at 5:30am. I generally get 5-7 hours of sleep a night, which is a significant advancement from my previous "consume caffeine and sugar throughout the day" routine.

I don't really believe my problem has to do with cafeine. I can drink Red Bull, Jolt, or Monster Energy an hour before bed and go to sleep. The believe the excessive amount of sugar in Mountain Dew is the real culprit. Alcohol tends to inhibit my sleep worse than caffeine.

I think part of my problem at night (getting to bed at a reasonable hour) is also a state of mind. Last night, I knew that I had some things I needed to get done early in the morning. I can stay up late and force myself to get up early-- but I have no energy. So, last night I took a Melatonin around 9PM and forced myself to get to sleep before 10:30. It helped to start my evening routine a little early. (Picking up, taking my evening meds, taking a shower, reading a little). It also helped to remind myself that if I didn't get down at a reasonable hour, I'd feel awful in the morning.

I have no trouble waking up in the am......

I wake up chatting and in a good mood. That all changes at night I'm grouchy and quiet. :rolleyes:

I usually have so much trouble getting to bed. I focus on something I forgot to do so much that I will get up and do it. Then I lay down and second guess myself about locking the doors. I get up to check. Then I lay back down and think about how full my bladder feels. I go potty, and hit the sack for the 100th time. Then the little hairs on my back unfold and I itch....etc.

I have already read all of my National Geographic's. Even the old issues!

It has always been that way since I was a kid. I also cannot get to sleep if I have to get up early. I am afraid of oversleeping or something. In the mornings, even if I sleep in, are always groggy for me for the first hour. There have been times on my days off, that I will get up, have coffee, then go back to bed and sleep for another hour.

I found the neatest job! I make my own schedule! I am never late or worry about not getting enough sleep. I just have to remember that the earlier I go in, the earlier I get out. It works for me!

Perhaps this has something to do with ADD.

I always have the same problem: trouble to sleep at night, but once I´m sleeping I have trouble getting up, and for the first hours I want to go back to bed.

At work, my "prime time" is at about 6 PM.

Both my son and I have improved sleeping since starting Strattera. I don't get that 2nd wind anymore at 10pm and am able to get up without sitting under the shower for 15 minutes. I should mention that I'm fortunate to have a job with flexible hours, so I never use an alarm. What a beautiful thing that is. I go to work between 9 and 10 am.

I think part of my problem at night (getting to bed at a reasonable hour) is also a state of mind. Last night, I knew that I had some things I needed to get done early in the morning. I can stay up late and force myself to get up early-- but I have no energy. So, last night I took a Melatonin around 9PM and forced myself to get to sleep before 10:30. It helped to start my evening routine a little early. (Picking up, taking my evening meds, taking a shower, reading a little). It also helped to remind myself that if I didn't get down at a reasonable hour, I'd feel awful in the morning.
The past few days I've been doing the Melatonin routine around 9pm and forcing myself to start my "get ready to wind down" routine around that time too. I make myself go up to bed after picking up around the house, taking a shower, and doing my nighttime Bible reading. I haven't stayed up past 10:30 (quite a feat for me) and it really is easier getting up in the morning and getting things done.

As I said in my earlier post though, for me it really is a state of mind (with the help of the Melatonin). I could easily get on my computer and stay up into the wee hours of the night. I have to choose not to.

Fasttalkingmom, you are so lucky!

This is a really bad issue for me. I just graduated college in December of last year and I live in a big two-story two-bedroom townhouse that I used to share with my roommate, but he moved out and its really cheap so I stayed on by myself. Well living alone is not good for me since I'm so disorganized, if it weren't for my friends coming over it would be a total mess. All my friends still in town are in college so I try to hang out with them until all hours of the night since I work all day then I have to leave my apartment by 7:15am to get to work by 8:00am. That, in addition to finding a outfit to wear thats not wrinkled or dirty, and the fact that I leave various bits and pieces of things on the different floors causing me to run up and down the stairs every morning, and my cat is always moving my ties and socks around causes me to be chronically 15 or 20 minutes late to work. Luckily I'm salaried and I make up all my time and my boss likes me. Thats about the only thing I have going for me lately...

Hey all!
I used to have trouble getting up in the morning... all my life I thought it was normal to go through the agony of waking up sloooooowly... and thought it was normal to feel like I was hung over. Then, I started setting my alarm about 1/2 hour earlier than I have to wake up, and setting out water and the ritalin RIGHT BESIDE MY BED. Now, I wake up a lot smoother and my head is clear. It's really been worth it waking up feeling rested and alert.

I think the reason is that the whole physiological causes of it... with ADHD, the brain's 'executive functioning' area (I think the prefrontal cortex in the brain) has a hard time working... it gets overloaded easily and slows down (like your computer locking up when you have too many programs running). So when it shuts down for the night, it has hard time 'booting up' again in the morning... which makes the owner of the brain feel really icky.

So when I take the meds, it makes the boot up sequence a lot more efficient and smooth... the computer analogy works really well. Each morning without taking the ritalin, my head feels like that black screen you get when you shut your computer down without using the actual shut down method in windows. You get 'your computer was shut down improperly and we are performing a full system scan...' With ritalin, it goes through the start up process easily, so the windows XP screen with that whoosh tune happens.

Anyway, falling asleep hasn't been bad at all, by midnight I'm falling asleep lately b/c I've been taking effexor for social anxiety, and it makes me sleepy. By the time the morning rolls around, that effect wears off a bit, so I'm good for the day.

Before I started on effexor, it was realllllly hard to get to sleep. The one thing that worked was listening to relaxation meditation tracks on my CD player.


Hope this helps.