I guess y'all don't have sleeping problems anymore... congrats

I do...it seems that I can't go to sleep before 1am these days... It's 12:30am here in California and I have to be up for work at 6am. :(

I'm here - two more weeks to graduation and I'm paying for all the slacking off I did this term.

I'm here...only because I just got home from work and then hanging out with a coworker (we close at 11pm)

Time to bump this one. I have totally screwed up my sleep patterns this weekend. I didn't get enough sleep all week at work so I fell asleep early Friday evening. I woke up and watched TV until late, but had to get up to go to work today. I worked from 8:50 am until 2:07 pm (yes, I'm keeping track!) and then came home and took a nap. I got up at 5 pm because some telemarketer called. I ran errands and picked up my kids from their dad's house. Now I can't sleep. Tomorrow they are going to wake up early since the Easter Bunny is coming. Then it's church, then to my mom's house. I drop them back off with their dad at around 7:30 pm. When am I going to do laundry? I'm going to be soooo tired tomorrow! EEEK!

If you can't sleep, try running at 5:00am. By 6:30am you feel amazing.

Just got home from work a little less than an hour ago. It takes me a couple of hours to unwind when I get home from work. Working nights all this week

I have been up all night long...now I have to go to work. :(

I have worked nights for the last 8 years. I work Mon/Tues overnights then try to get back on a daytime schedule on Thursday-not easy to do. I now take ambien to help me sleep on Wed. night, which has helped, though sometimes I still feel groggy on Thursday.

I also have very active dreams and feel like even when I do sleep I actually am still awake in my "other" life. I wish there was a way I could stop dreaming.

I don't think I went to sleep at all last night...I am sooo tired right now. :(

This "waking up every work day around 4am, head full of random thoughts so I can't fall back asleep" problem has got to stop...

I am the same way with my dreams. My bf actually wakes me up in the middle of some of them because I get afraid during/of my dreams. I have the huge problem of my mind racing about useless thoughts (how did they invent this? why do they do things a re certain way? nothing important, just random junk!)

I took ambien several years ago for a while. It worked great (until I developed a tolerance for it.) I can tell you from experience with Ambien:
-go to bed AS SOON AS YOU TAKE IT! (within minutes it starts to work, and you will have conversations or do things that you have no memories of the next day!)

-Make sure you get at least eight hours of sleep. That may be why you feel groggy the next morning. I always felt that way if I tried to wake up before I got "enough" sleep. That should get better once your body gets "used to" taking the medicine.

I hope these things help!!!!

Meredith

We would if we could!!! ;)

thank God that i dont have this problem...i am very sleep needy...

i had mono once about 2 almost 3 years ago and ever since then i cant really function without the correct amount of sleep. anyone else have this problem...i really need about 7.5 to 8 hrs of sleep every night!!

*dances the mono dance*