I was wondering if anyone actually slept to much?

I can actually take my meds and still sleep. I am really bad on weekends. All I do is sleep. It is almost like it is catchup time from the week.

Well, because of my shift and the baby I can go sometimes two day's with only a hour nap here and a hour nap there. So, on day's that my husband is home I will DIE for the entire day. My kid's ask for money and toy's and pop and candy during these periods everything is YES just shut up and leave me alone. lol

I'm working on going back to morning shift and riding to work with Doug I'll probably get more sleep and can get back into excercising with the ladies in town. I miss all my friend's horribly.

I don't require much sleep.
With my job, I can start work anywhere from Midnight to 9am.

Sleep too much? I am lucky to get a few hours sleep a night. Falling asleep is generally no problem, but waking up between 2 and 3am on a daily basis is getting old fast. My brain just starts cranking as soon as I wake up and I can't slow it down enough to fall back to sleep. All part of the joy of ADD!

:)

I never really have days off of work, but if and when I get the chance I could literally sleep all day!

As for the meds, my first two days on Concerta I could have easily slept them away.

I love sleeping, I wish I could sleep more.

Sleep too much?? Surely you jest. If I get 5-6 hours a night I feel richly rewarded.

well, looks like i'm alone in this one. yes, i sleep too much. i can sleep up to twelve hours a day. this is mostly because of my medicine-- risperdal-- it conks me out completely. i hate it-- i need so much sleep that it robs me of a bunch of other activities, and makes me groggy and out of it during the day.

when i wasn't using or taking medicine, i slept about eight hours a night.

i think a lot of ADD people don't sleep well because of the stimulants they take, if you ask me. but i could be wrong. when i took adderrall i didn't sleep a wink.

i myself dont sleep that much at all....but my soon to be hubby seems like he sleeps forever and he isnt even on any meds. goes to bed at 3am and doesnt get up til about 1pm....whereas i go to sleep at 1am and get up at 6am....now 10 hrs versus 5 hrs. that doesnt seem right...LOL

Well, I have actually considered having a sleep study done. Right now I am wide awake and have to get up at 4:30-5am to get ready for work and it is 2am central time. So I seem to go from one extreme to another. I am not sure if I sleep so much on weekends, that sometimes during the week, I have trouble sleeping.

it is possible to sleep too much like it is to sleep to little isnt it? that is what it sounds like to me bunny that maybe you are getting so much sleep on the weekends that your not needing it during the week when you may be more stressed out.

I go back and forth with not enough sleep to too much. Now if I could just get them to meet somewhere in the middle! LOL! I seem to be that way with everything though......either too much or too little I struggle with balance in everything there is in my life. But in some cases I have learned to just let things bee the way they are.I don't worry to much unless it becomes a real problem.

Hey BeachBum,

I started waking up at 2 or 3 am every for years, wide awake, with mind going, did not understand it, mentioned it to my GP once when asked about my sleeping pattern, and he said that is probably the most identifyable symptom of depression, saying many symptoms are more subjective, but if you fall asleep easily, and wake up at 3 am, that's what he called an obvious case of 'early awakening', especially if when you wake, your mind is moving and ready to go.
After a week on 10mg prozac, the early awakening stopped completely.
Take care,
Jim

Hey Bunny,
I guess we are in the same boat i also get way to much sleep. I get about 10-12 hours most days unless i have something to do then i am all ready to go. I have went about 24 hours with out sleep but was either partying or was working. For the last year its been more sleep, lost my job and haven't been able to find another one. There is nothing else to do but sleep when you do the same thing over and over again (nothing)

I sleep too much.

I have problems to sleep some days, but once I'm sleeping is very difficult for me to get out of bed, even after sleeping more than 8 hours.

For example, I can go to bed at 10pm, begin to sleep at 12pm, and then have trouble getting up at 10. If I have something to do, about 15 minutes after getting up, I feel fine, but the process of getting up is my problem.

If I have some pressure to get out of bed (being late for example) it's easier, but I alwas "procrastinate" in bed to be there until the last minute.

In my job they are flexible, I mean, I have to work 9 hours, but I can arrive at 9 am or even at 11am...

Hope this helps!

PS: I´m going to try St. John's Wort to increase my dopamine levels

welcome, marcelo!
como estas?

i sleep too much, too...
but, i (almost) never miss appointments in the morning - i bounce out of bed at the sound of the alarm clock, and then i look and feel as if i've been chewed over by a sheep until about 11 am!
:D
my *best* hours are between 11 am and 4 pm - in those five hours i'm (most) in control of things...
after 4 pm, i get tired again - especially if i've been around people...

I'm in the sleep too much camp. It doesn't matter how much I sleep the night before once I go to bed I can sleep for 18 or more hours. I have troube getting out of bed when I'm supposed to. A really loud alarm clock, that sort of jolts me can help. But what's been the real life saver is Adderall. Its the first time I've ever felt awake, and ready to get out of bed in the morning.

Me toooooo! All was going good with my friends Effexor XR and Medadate CD. Soon I was having trouble where my depression was starting to peak out again and my ADD became more evident. I figured out that I was sleeping too much! I had to start setting an alarm and making sure that I woke up instead of waiting for my 7 month old son to wake me up. I felt so much better after I cut down the amount of sleep I was getting. My mind was clearer and my outlook on life was much more positive. I also notice that a consistant sleep pattern help me.

i either sleep too much or not at all. the only time i get a "normal" amount of sleep is when i am literally dragged from bed for some appointment. i've had trouble falling/staying asleep for a long time and now it's just at the point where i don't sleep until i am completely physically exhausted and then i will sleep for 12-15 hours :eek: often, even when i am in that near-delirious state from sleep deprivation before one of my "crashes" i will still have to take my sleeping meds to fall asleep (ambien plus my neurontin is sedating as well). but once i am asleep, it's like i'm in a coma or something. i have had so many experiences with being "woken" and having long conversations while sitting up in bed, and to have no recollection of this later because i was not really awake. it sucks because once i sleep it takes me so long to get up and get going the next day, which is a big reason why i avoid going to bed even though i could technically take my sleeping pill every night and fall asleep. i feel MORE tired upon waking than I did when I went to sleep, which is why i will continue to go back to sleep after waking up several times, because i can't for the life of me haul myself out of bed. and i'm definitely a night hawk and feel like i'm "wasting" the night when it is quiet if i go to bed most of the time. lately my routine is sleep one night, stay up the next. i'm a freak.

Sleep???? What is that???? During the week when I have to be at work or school (mainly school) I only sleep for approx. 3 hrs a night, if that. It takes me forever to get to bed, get to easily sidetracked or have endless homework and projects. The weekends however are a different story. I can sleep them away! I am definately NOT a morning person! I absolutely hate mornings, they do not exist!! Well, maybe not that bad, I do enjoy them during the summer. I think one of my problems is that I just don't have a consistent sleep scedual...

Chalk up another one for the sleep too muchers!

Man, just like you - iwritestuffmpls - ever since I started Adderall, I've finally been able to stay awake during the day! I use to be so bad (and still am to a certain extent) that I could EASILY fall asleep under the following conditions:

A boring concert: After seeing KISS just a few months earlier in the same
venue back in 1990, I drag myself along with my sister and friends to see New Kids On The Block and after a half hour of that crap, I decide to sit down and take a nap...no problem.

A college party: When I'm tired, that's it. I don't want to be here anymore with all your drunk-a****, but since 'yall aren't ready to go home any time soon, I'll just lay myself down here in this corner....wake me up when you're ready to go.

A Bar: Like I said before, when I'm tired, that's it. I've had my few drinks, and now I want to go home and sleep. But of course, I don't want to spoil the fun for my friends. So I'll just close my eyes and rest my chin on my palm here and off to la la land I go...

A Restaurant: Eating always gives me (without being on adderall) a food coma. So needless to say, I've leaned my head on many a wall attached to a restaurant booth after finishing my meal.

The Car: Now, before my friend the amphetamine came into my life, I couldn't drive for more than an hour or two without getting really sleepy. And if I was a passenger, well, no point in staying awake - now is there? Perfect time to shut my eyes.

During a film shown in class/Anytime the lights go out: This was pure torture starting in about junior high and all the way through my college years. Once that switch was flipped, there was no hope for me. Staying awake to try and take notes during those damn films was next to impossible! Yet another opportunity to rest my peepers.

Boy, and sooooo many other situations.... but I just thought of something here.... Come to think of it, I really didn't have this chronic tiredness until I was about 13 - when I suddenly developed allergies to cats and dust and pollen. My terrible sinuses are always swollen (except when adderall is swirling through my system - works better for my allergies than it does the ADD anymore) and it gives me dark circles under my eyes from all the congestion.... I KNOW these allergies and possibly puberty really messed up my system and I've been sleepy ever since!

I believe it's a combination of my allergies and sensitive eyes that really brought on the sleepiness in the last 15 or more years. My eyes have always been sensitive to light and I know I have visual problems and would benefit greatly from visual therapy, if I had the money to do so.

Because there's NO DOUBT in my mind that due to the lack of DHA (omega-3 fatty acid - critical building block for the eyes and brain) during my fetal development and pretty much my WHOLE LIFE, I've got eyes and a brain (and God knows how many other parts) composed instead, of "generic" or even "toxic" fatty-acids, via all the unhealthy and processed high fat, high sugar gems like - well - frosted donut gems, Trix (back when they were round and only came in 3 colors), and if I had a nickel for all the hot dogs I've eaten in my life - oh boy - I don't want to even know!!
So how do you expect my brain functions or how my vision is, or how my immune system is, when I've got "cheap" parts in this assembly?? I mean really?? It's NO WONDER that my vision is useless for reading, or that my brain has short circuits and takes tripped-out paths to get a word out or thought composed...becuz instead of running on high-octane...I've got the leadiest of leady fuels pumping through every dang cell of my body....and this engine is about to blow!

Anyways....random tangent girl has one last thing to mention:

DHA's (dextro-hada-ada-something-or-another) original source is some type of algae. And because fish eat algae (or at least they take it in every time they bloop bloop with their mouths) eating fish (especially salmon) is the absolute best way to get your DHA. Of course eating too much fish now a days from our polluted waters, is no longer such a good idea. And you guessed it! I've probably eaten a total of one whole fish in my entire life.
......But here is where it get's real good....
We all know that fish is the main food staple of Eastern Asia, right?
Ok then - try typing in "cases of ADD/ADHD in Asia" in your search engine....

I've YET to find ONE link that could tell me of a single soul in Eastern Asia who has ADD or anything closely related!!

And yet, here we are in the U.S., where the numbers of adults and children with neurological disorders are soaring by the minute!!....hmmm....could it be all the over-processed, high in omega-6 fatty acids (pretty much any of the bad fats) foods we eat WAAAAYYY too much of in this country??? Nah. Just because we consume hoards of these bad fats that actually inhibit the absorbtion of the few bits of good fats we do take in, doesn't mean ..... um.... what was i gonna say??? oh....yeah.... doesn't mean it effects how our brain works at all!! What makes you say that??? ;)

jen

jen,
you might have something there

wonder if there's ever been a study on identical twins with ADD
especially ones that were adopted out in different environments

I've always had problems sleeping too much for as long as i can remember, i'm 20. Even since kidnergarden I've always been a heavy sleeper, could never get out of bed and get going in the morning and always late for classes/appointments because of it.

Every now and again I do somehow manage to get on track with my sleep ha bbits, being able tow ake up, but it's usually very short lived. My parents have always just chocked it up to me being lazy and a 'sleeper', and my Family Doctor has said the same thing, that short of mono there's no reason for someone to sleep that much, and that I'm just a lazy person.

I get a few hours of sleep weekdays, and crash on weekends. I hate this, though. Because my sleeping pattern is all screwed up! If I could just fall asleep at a decent hour . . .. .