Hi guys,
another quick question here. Dr S told me to have a maximum of 8 hours sleep per night. I have been doing that and at the same time religiously this week.
What do you all do on the weekend? I love my lie ins on a weekend and am going to hate waking up at 7am 
I honestly feel like 8 jours isn’t enough. I feel a tiiiiiiiiny bit better if I wake up naturally.
But I guess having a certain rythm is better isn’t. I tried that for several months though, but I felt not difference.
Sometimes sleeping is all I can think of during the day. Sad isn’t it. 
Maximum of 8 hours? Wow, I consider that to be a bad night. I normally get about 10 hours and I am still constantly exhausted. Could be a side effect of the Topamax, but even before meds I was always exhausted and could barely stay awake past 9. Its like my brain was just so tired of constantly trying to function all day. Unlike you, I don’t have the option of a lie-in - I have a four year old, so built in 7 am alarm clock.
I know nori and ami have sleepiness as side effects as well - would be interested if others were sleeping more than 8 hours as well? Maybe I’m just getting way too much sleep! But I have no idea how I could force myself to stay awake later without caffeine as an option. I do have a pretty regular schedule - normally asleep no later than 9:30, the party animal that I am!! Like belgianwaffle, it hasn’t helped me much.
I need a good 10 hours and sometimes 11 hours per night. Crazy isn’t it! x
I think it was Dr Silver who said 8-9 hours. I don’t think there’s any hard and fast rule. We’re all different. Just be consistent if you can.
10 hours of sleep? I am beyond jealous! I can’t even remember the last time I slept through a night. I’m lucky if I get six because I usually wake up at least twice due to symptoms.
Before all this, all I ever needed was 7 hours to feel rested; now it’s 9 (not even 8)!
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10 hours of sleep? I am beyond jealous! I can’t even remember the last time I slept through a night. I’m lucky if I get six because I usually wake up at least twice due to symptoms.
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ME TOO! I take ami & imovane at night & im lucky if i sleep more than 6 hrs. I am a VERY light sleeper waking up numerous times at night. Id love to sleep for 10 hrs straight…what a vacation that would feel like!..lol
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I honestly feel like 8 jours isn’t enough. I feel a tiiiiiiiiny bit better if I wake up naturally.
But I guess having a certain rythm is better isn’t. I tried that for several months though, but I felt not difference.
Sometimes sleeping is all I can think of during the day. Sad isn’t it.
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Amen to this board! I can sleep 12hours easily without any noise waking me up and then still be exhausted during the day and need a nap. I know I’m supposed to have an 8hr cap but am finding it impossible to wake up in the mornings, even when I go to bed at 9-10pm at night. I really don’t know how I am going to get a routine in place with this. I’ve had 3 alarms in my room at one point all going off at once and my body is so strange. I wake up and turn them off but have NO memory of this in the morning/afternoon when I finally rise. It bothers the people I live with as they think I’m not trying or being lazy, tell me my body doesn’t need that much sleep (I’m not sure how true this statement is) - and I miss a lot of what goes on in ‘real life’. I swear people think I just haven’t gotten out of the teenage phase of oversleeping, I’ve always been a fan of my sleep and had no problem sleeping-in when my days off permitted me to when I was normal. But I also didn’t have an issue with having to rise early for work when necessary before this condition. Now I just don’t wake up at all… Plus we all know medication knocks us for six when just starting or increasing doses (this takes up a huge time frame, months at a go). Any help in this department would be appreciated. And saying JUST WAKE UP isn’t help lol.
I just never wake up really. Don’t remember what not being sleepy feels like.
When I say I’m tired some people just look at me like ‘yeah I’m tired too’ and they roll with their eyes.
But indeed, amen to this board. People who I have never met in my life know what T-I-R-E-D feels like!!
started taking Nortriptyline this week, I swear I slept 10 hours last night solid for the first time in my life. but it wasn’t a refreshing type of sleep. It was a sort of knocked the F*** out type of sleep and then I woke up thinking who am i, where am i, what century is this??