Hi guys,
do any of you sleep more than usual?

Ever since school finished and I haven't had as much to do and worry about I've been sleeping like crazy. You give me a pillow and I'll sleep. Recently, I sleep so tight nothing can wake me up for hours. Last night for example, I fell asleep at 12 and woke up at 8.30 with an alarm clock. And I had a missed phone call and two text msgs, i always wake up to that. But recently I sleep very deep. and my bf mentioned that for the last few months I've been sleeping more than usual. He's more active than me but he goes to sleep after me and wakes up before me.
He says he started noticing it when he wanted to talk at night like we used to and couldn't wake me up and then he started noticing it more and more that I am sleeping very often.
I noticed that I need at least 8 hours a night, that's at least. And I can sleep up to 11 hours without feeling like I overslept. My normal sleep is about 9 or 9.5 hours a night.
I stopped taking straterra after school finished, but I don't know if it plays a role or not!

Hope to hear some response, I"ll read it tomorrow after i wake up :)

...sleep... ... and I said it first, between you and me, I sleep to dream, I sleep to dream (2x)... Do you sleep to dream?

SB.

do any of you sleep more than usual?

I may not be the right person to answer because I have no such thing as “usual” sleep my pattern would best be described as unusual of not down right odd!


I sleep more some times than I do others,, ,,I have a varied sleep cycle some times I sleep only a couple of hours while others I can sleep for 14 and still feel tired.

I have seen people do this after they have been under a lot of stress then after the situation is over they will sleep a lot as if relieved.

Also with school ending you may have lost some external structuring to your schedule which may throw you off. There is no “have to” get up so you don’t. My sister used to sleep forever on summer breaks because she simply liked to sleep…….

I am the same way. On weekends I will sleep 12-14 hours and still feel unrefreshed. Sleep is an ADD issue. I always wake up groggy in the AM and just can't get going. When I am on Concerta this improves alot. My head is clearer in the AM and I am OK with 7 hours sleep. There is an excellent chapter on this problem in the book "Healing ADD" by Amen. (This is the best book on ADD that I have read).

I would check if medication can work for you on this issue (it helped me).
My GF is an early riser and it would be great to start our days together instead of her spending 4-5 hours shopping and getting pedicures while I sleep.

I am still working on the bad-sleep cycle issue myself. I have the same kind of irregular patterns meadd and zoneout mentioned naturally? Then I had my hubby home for an extended period of time (he is a night owl) plus my child is home for the summer now (another ADDer)...but I must wake, ready or not, to tend to my toddler.

I set my alarm to wake me about an hour before the baby gets up, swallow my meds and go back to bed. I wake up less groggy that way, but I am not responding to the meds as well when I am sleep deprived. I am attempting to push bedtime back 1/2 to an hour earlier each night. Sometimes that works, and sometimes that does not work. Sleep has always been a fat issue for me.

My GF is an early riser and it would be great to start our days together instead of her spending 4-5 hours shopping and getting pedicures while I sleep.

Shopping and getting pedicures doesn’t sound like she minds having some time to do the things she likes doing while you sleep. Before I acquired this goofy schedule I have now I got up earlier than Gary and coveted this alone time. Now I stay up later than Gary and I still enjoy the alone time….. we all need some time to ourselves so I would not change the sleep thing for her unless she complains.





I set my alarm to wake me about an hour before the baby gets up, swallow my meds and go back to bed.

I do this too minus the toddler.






I wake up less groggy that way, but I am not responding to the meds as well when I am sleep deprived

It is that way for me as well. I think because the sleep deprivation makes ADD symptoms worse. I read where lack of sleep can actually cause ADD type problems such as decreased ability to concentrate, poor impulse control ect……

I do this too minus the toddler.So far that's working quite well for me, glad to see it works for others too and its not just some kind of wishful thinking on my part.

Dunno what I am gonna do when school starts again though...seems REALLY early to get up at 5 to be alert by 6 :eek:. I can only imagine how soon they might wear off if I did that :(.



It is that way for me as well. I think because the sleep deprivation makes ADD symptoms worse. I read where lack of sleep can actually cause ADD type problems such as decreased ability to concentrate, poor impulse control ect……I have read the same thing and some days I am just so baffled as to whether its sleep/lack of sleep, food, water or female issues making me react so sporadically to the medication!
I don't mean to threadjack but this sleep thing is making it kind of hard for me to determine proper dosing right now too :( ya just never know when a new tooth is gonna come in or something (toddler, not me) and sleep is gonna just go right down the toilet for any given night. Yawn!

I have the oddest sleep pattern--sometimes, I can be wide awake all day with just a few hours of sleep, and at other times, I'm groggy after a good night's sleep. I remember one summer after a greuling internship program (easily 11-12 hour days at work, and then classes in the evening), I was so tierd that when I went to visit my uncle for the weekend, and actually slept for over 30 hours! I slept on a Friday, and got out of bed on Sunday! I had no clue until my aunt told me.