Sooo sleepy all the time, grumping.
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| Wed, 01-10-2007 - 12:23pm |
I am just so very very tired and sleepy ALL the time. It's so hard to stay awake! Even last year when I was working, I would go to my car and sleep in the car for an hour on my lunch break! It's so hard to wake up, and just as hard to stay awake. Then I get panicky and insomnia because I'm afraid that I'll oversleep like if I need to take my stepkid to school in the morning, or if I'm contemplating giving in to the exhaustion feeling and napping while she's at school I'm terrified that I'll not wake up to the alarm and be late picking her up from school.
Its like I just can never get enough sleep, like my batteries just dont recharge like everyone elses.
I've been told I need vitamins... I take prenatal vitamins and Bcomplex vitamins (im not pregnant).
I've been told I just need to 'fix my sleep schedule'... I try to go to bed and have started wrapping something around my head/eyes and focusing on a mantra to fall asleep, and I'm trying, oh god I'm trying SO HARD, to stay awake during the day. it's just soo soo hard not to just curl up right here in my chair and rest a minute...
I'm so tired of feeling bad about myself like I'm just fat and lazy. I WANT to be 'not lazy'. I really really do. I wish I could be like I am when I am UP, real productive and focused on working and getting stuff done, and not crash again.
DH believes me when I'm UP, and it's really hard on me that I just can't stay that way. I get real focused, productive, fast, but not the waywayoutofcontrol stuff, I just become like super-homemaker and super-employee.. but then it ends and I'm just defunct and useless for awhile until I 'recharge' I suppose.
Just needed to grump about it I suppose.
Anna

Have you told your doctors how tired you are?
God could not be everywhere, so
I had your problem once. In fact, I still occasionally have small versions of your problem. When I started grad school back in 2000, right away I started sleeping like you were. I didn't feel anything else was wrong though, so I just went like normal with it. By November of that year, I was depressed to the point of suicide, and then finally I realized the sleepiness was a sign my meds weren't working properly and I was depressed. I went into the hospital for a week, was put on new meds, and didn't have a problem of that magnitude again.
These days, sometimes I just am sleepy like that for isolated days here and there. It always goes away again. I can live with it.
BTW, have you tried Neurontin? My meds were changed from Li to Neurontin and eventually Geodon. Works better for me than anything else, and the really great thing is no weight gain on either of them!
Express!
Beth "Petrouchka"
I'm not on any medications right now. I was taking Lexapro, but kept forgetting to get it refilled in November, and ended up just not taking it anymore.
I don't actually have a dr to tell about the sleep. I once mentioned it to the nurse of my GP, but because of her response I did not say anything to the GP. The nurse said (in a thick hispanic accent) 'oh my you are lazy then? You are obese too. You need to stop that being lazy and obese.' - my response was complete and total shock at her words. My husband was there with me too, so when she left I asked him if I heard her correctly. Yup. She had just called me Fat and Lazy.
Sleeping from 10pm to 6am/7am/8am/9am every day when I was working didn't cut it. Even when I pushed back the wake up time to 9am, I was still exhausted all day long.
I had a thyroid test a few years ago. My previous GP was some sort of specialist. He diagnosed me with Fibromyalgia. Maybe that's the problem. I don't really think about the Fibromyalgia much, it's gotten pretty normal to ache and pain. I guess the sleeping is the more out right noticeable thing.
I am really sick of people (family members, that nurse) insinuating that I'm just lazy. Like I'm a fat lazy slug or something. Throughout the day, it really gets so bad that I feel like I haven't slept in forever. You know if you stay up and don't go to sleep a point comes where your body is so tired that you just fall over asleep? That is how it feels.
Today after being up 7am-11:30am, I ended up sleeping 11:30am to 3pm when I had to go pick up my stepdaughter. Then we went to the grocery and came home. I just put away the cold stuff and sat down for a minute here to read the messageboards/rest/smoke a cigarette and gather enough energy to go finish putting away grocerys and do the dishes so I can start dinner. Already I'm feeling drained and yawning.
My first ever Pdoc appt will be Feb 28th. I don't know what I think about that really.
Anna,
It could easily be caused by depression or your fibromyalgia or both.
Hey, Thanks for the response. I have anxiety and panick attacks too. I do need/want to lose weight. I signed up for a gym, haven't gone since mid December though. Have had a lot going on and alot of stress in December. Hopefully I'll start going and keep a routine, even when I dont 'feel like going'. HOPE at least. I'm 5'6" and 206ibs. I do need to lose about 50ibs true, but its not like I'm 500ibs and have to be forklifted or something. I wear a size 18 right now. Sure I'm overweight, but there's plenty of women size 18, otherwise there wouldn't be so many clothes out there in my size. DH makes me feel good, but yeah I am somewhat selfconscious about my weight. I don't gorge, don't eat lots, sometimes its what I eat instead of how much, but I try to limit the pizza and stuff. I think my weight issue is from being inactive and the Lexapro might be contributing a little.
I've heard exercizing is good not only for weight issues, but for fibromyalgia, depression, and insomnia too. Shoot, maybe I can just start exercizing and won't have to start back on the Lexapro or anything. haha.
Exercize