Anyone have abnormal sleeping patterns?

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24 Apr 2011, 1:03 am

I'm pretty sure this has to do with the medicine I'm on (Prozac) but I'm up all night and sleep all day, literally. I go to bed about 5 am and sleep until 3/4/5 sometimes 6/7 pm, then stay up until 5 in the morning.



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24 Apr 2011, 1:59 am

I go to bed late and have a hard time falling asleep.



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24 Apr 2011, 2:11 am

I've always stayed up late...but before I was on medicine, I'd only sleep about 6-7 hours and be up all day, too. Now I sleep 10 to 12 hours a day and have weird dreams.



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24 Apr 2011, 2:19 am

my brother was on prozac for a bit and he said it made him tired and he slept more....

so your pobably right- prozacs doin that to ya.

6-7 is best amount of sleep for me...sleep around 1am.


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24 Apr 2011, 2:36 am

I got to bed at 2 or 3 every night and get up at 10 or 11. I always get 8 hours of sleep, but they're those hours.

Yes it is abnormal and I get crap for it all the time but it is what it is.

The worst is when people assume you are lazy and no good if you're in bed at 10 am. If I'm hard at work at midnight or 2 am, that doesn't matter - just that I didn't up "bright and early" like the "good, normal" people do. :P

I've fought that fight all of my life.


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24 Apr 2011, 2:41 am

It is 12:40 AM here, and I just woke up. I had gone to bed at 2:00 in the afternoon.

That is pretty typical for me.


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24 Apr 2011, 4:45 am

weird, yes, but still quite regular.
whenever i go to bed, be it 11 pm or 2 am; i sleep at 3 am and wake up around 10:30 am, but i dont feel especially tired if i go to bed after 3 am; even while that means i dont sleep for that night...



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24 Apr 2011, 6:11 am

nilescrane wrote:
I'm pretty sure this has to do with the medicine I'm on (Prozac) but I'm up all night and sleep all day, literally. I go to bed about 5 am and sleep until 3/4/5 sometimes 6/7 pm, then stay up until 5 in the morning.


Has this sleep program started when you began taking Prozac? Haven't you changed anything in your daily routine? I'm asking because I've also been sleeping between 5 AM and 2-3 PM for 4 years now and it has to do with my work (4 PM - 12 AM) and a tiny little depression as well:) But this problem solved once I got to do, besides work, something I like (I sleep like a baby starting 1 AM since the day I started volonteering for an autistic child).


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24 Apr 2011, 8:05 am

I don't have a sleep schedule. My bedtime gets later and later every day. One day I go to bed at 9 PM and wake up at 9 AM. Two weeks later I'll go to sleep at 9 AM, and wake up at 9 PM!



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24 Apr 2011, 8:42 am

My sleep clock is off. If I don't strictly enforce when I go to sleep, I'll wind up with a schedule where I wake up at 6pm and go to sleep at 4am. It sucks because everyone is asleep and you can't go outside... there's no sunlight.


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