SLEEPING!

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Anyone have problems sleeping? I do. Very bad.

The last semester at school I had no distinct sleeping pattern for about 6 months. I just rotated between 3 very different patterns, each lasting approximately a week and a half, and between those it was staying up for 2 days straight or just taking naps whenever I was tired.

Either way; not being able to sleep is lame, especially when I am really tired.

What do you do to fall asleep easier?



I should probably go to bed now! Have to work in 8 hours and it will take me an hour and a half to sleep!

Haven't been able to fall asleep before like 3-6am in years. Haven't been able to wake up before 12 in years either. Good think I'm just a grad. student (starting August 21st baby!)... Couldn't imagine having a job, particularly one where I had to wake-up early to get in there and do things that require thinking at that time of day...

yeah but you're a grad student, now you're never gonna get a job.. haha

I will maybe fall asleep by 3 a.m....then wake up at 6 a.m. then go back to sleep at 10 a.m. then wake up at 1ish... then want a nap by 6 p.m.
good thing i am self-employed!

i have had sleeping problems all my life i have never slept well although I do sleep better now.

I find it so difficult to sleep im tossing and turning all night.

I've had sleeping problems for a long, long time. As a matter of fact, I absolutely do not sleep at all without my nightly Trazodone.

It's really hard for me to sleep! I often fall asleep between 4 and 7 AM nowadays.

I also belong to those people who encounter problems when they want to sleep. It started when I was 11 - suddenly I started to wake up in the middle of the night because I was choking - I simply forgot about breathing while sleeping Has someone of you ever hade this problem too? This way I couldn't sleep for about several weeks, I don't remember exactly now but I was still tired then.

My problems with insomnia (but fortunately not with breathing) returned 6 years later and from that time I have problems with sleeping from time to time. I often can't sleep for few hours or I wake up much earlier than I should. I also can't go to bed too late, later than about midnight because if I do it it's highly possible I'll be unable to sleep at all that night. Fortunately I have very interesting dreams that reward me it (this night I dreamed something about the Terminator movies).

ive never had a problem sleeping until recently... now i go every week and a half or 2 weeks where 1 day i cant sleep, so i stay up and then my routine is screwed for days, it sucks, im thinking of medication, does not help that i work 3rd shift and the sun is out when im ready to sleep, heh, this website is not helpin eather i stay on to long.

I used to have loads of problems sleeping at night, even as a child I would stay awake until 3 or 4am. My brain just kept thinking about things, so I could not sleep.
I now take 25mg Amitriptyline and 5mg Prochlorperazine which works very well, it also helps with anxiety.
Simon.

I started taking a hypnotic a few months ago for awhile but it left a bitter metallic taste in my mouth in the morning. I haven't refilled the prescription and don't intend to.

I don't sleep much. Last night I didn't sleep at all. I either don't sleep at all or I fall asleep around 2 or 3 am and then toss and turn the rest of the night. I tried Ambien and it doesn't work, I'm going to ask for Ambien CR at my next appt and see if that works any better.

My body seems to not be on a 24 hour circadian rhythm. So I tend to want to stay up slightly later and my pattern allways shifts forward. Not kept logs but I guess its less than 1 extra hour a day.

That's weirdly coincidental (or perhaps symptomatic). I have tonnes of trouble sleeping too, and when I'm not working I always switch to a 25 hour day. It's very inconvenient when you end up going to bed at 9am I looked into it and there's a theory that the latest ELE (the "dinosaur meteor") was large enough to actually speed up the rotation of the earth by a few percent, changing us from a 25ish hour day to a 24 one, and that some people and animals still display vestigial biorhythms of a 25 hour day.
Of course, that's just a theory...

Has anyone found any good nonprescription sleeping pills that work for aspies? I have horrible luck with doctors, and I haven't had time to research an aspie-friendly one in Edmonton, so a prescription is out for now, but I'd definitely like some help sleeping (stupid 8am job...)

There's natural bullshi.. i mean natural melatonin pills....... they apparently reduce the time you need to sleep so you get more rest in a smaller time frame... but I don't think they HELP you sleep.

Best way I found is to just go to sleep whenever your tired and never force yourself to try and sleep because chances are you won't.