2:06..still up.  I'm up until about 2-3am everynight.    

Go to bed, wake up in 2-3 hours.  My brain sucks.  It's got too much stuff in it to power down for the night and let me sleep.  ADD is a $&#% curse.

JM

Ironically, I am more productive when im sleep deprived. When I do get sleep, i sit around and soak in the feeling of not feeling like shit.

To a point, I am.  If I keep a little sugar in my body, I am insanely on-task and get irritated when I get pulled away from what I'm working on ~

JM

I dont get irritated when i get pulled away from something, unless its a personal task that i spent a lot of time on and i dont wanna loose my mode. anyway, im all packed up, now im going to school to learn how to deal with people. [moto]

Just saw this thread.  I wake up just about every night 15 minutes after I fall asleep with one of the crazy ass dreams mentioned earlier.  It is either something in the room or someone messing with my car.  I am awake and will answer questions but the fear or anger is still there and I can't be told it isn't real.  My gf has finally gotten used to it.  She just agrees with me and lets me calm down.  I also wake up about every hour. 

You got good company. I feel your pain. When I was younger I NEVER would have thought I'd have any problem sleeping. Got my Doc to prescribe a sleeping pill, Sonata. I can take double the dose, go to sleep tired and wake up less than two hours and lie awake all night.

Like you said, take a couple of benedryl and sleep fairly well, but feel off balance and dopey all the next day.

Brain just won't shut off.

LA

so I've been put on ambien.

took some last night, overslept my alarm and was a couple of ticks late to work.

side effects:drowsy! I feel exactly the damn same today... how is this supposed to be better for me? 

and since doc won't let me drink any caffiene (even AM) WTF am I supposed to do?

I really don't want to have to resort to chemicals.  I never know when my phone will ring at 4:30AM and I'll have to be at work in 45 minutes ~

JM

Resorting to chemicals....

I wont go on Ambien or anything like that. those are sleep aids. Not ment for permanent use. A chemical that helps fix something is another thing. Maybe my brain is missing a chemical that induces sleep? i dont know.

I read up on some stuff last week. We have an internal clock taht is based on a 23 hour schedule. SOme of us with odd hours and odd schedules or just interact with certain types of people just have shifted rhythms. We get tired and sleepy based on the people around us and sunlight.   Most people will feel tired around the same time the sun comes down, or when people around them sleep.

They did a test where they stuck people inside an apt with no windows and had them live there for a week. Their rhythm got f*ed up and they went to bed later and later. Normally, it is reset by exporsure to sunlight.


I think thats my problem. mine doestn get reset. For me, it go to sleep about 10-15minutes later and later each night until im up for 36 hours straight (wake up, didnt sleep that night, and continued the next day) i finnaly crash ( im at that point right now) and i sleep at 10pm, then he next day, it gets later and later and later.

Then it led to this article on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

Thats exactly how i am. I was so tired today, i didnt think i could hop on the bike and ride home. But then after roughing out the 2 hours of consistently dozing of, i was wide awake, went to the gym and now im typing this up. I need to wake up at 7am tomorrow morning, wtf am i still doing up? when i slept 3hours last night? Who knows.

So seriously, who wants to use their med plan to get me some ambien for the rough nights? pretty please 

this benedryll stuff is suppose to kill your liver. lol

believe me, I didn't either. it's a trial by my doc...

I mean, it sorta works... he's hoping it'll help me reestablish a proper sleep cycle.

how long have you been on it?

got on it earlier this month... but can't take it w/food, alcohol, must set aside 8 hours...

so btwn my two work schedules, the occasional after beer drinkage, or late dinners (I'd have to take the pill at like 7:30pm to get a full it's been rough to make a completely regular habit.

I've also been banned from caffiene, even in the morning... the day job sucks ass now. well, for a different reason... lack of caffiene...

Chronic sleep probs could be issues not associated with the "brain that can't turn off".  Could be stuff like sleep apnea: you get O2 deprived to some degree and your adrenals throw epinephrine into your system to startle you into breathing again.  The epi effects last and propagate.  Try a sleep clinic .

knowing what my particular sitch is, I'm 99% it ain't apnea