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My sleep has gotten so bad it's having a major impact on my life. I have no control over when I sleep and I've been sleeping during the day and staying up all night, but it's a t different times every day. I've also been sleeping 10 to 12 hours at a time.

The only way I can try to adjust my sleep schedule is by staying awake longer, because trying to fall asleep earlier is impossible, but lately I've been so tired that I've been unable to push myself to stay awake, or when I do it just makes my sleep schedule even more unpredictable. It's become a very serious problem.

Has anyone ever been to a sleep specialist and found it even remotely helpful? In my experience they only treat sleep apnea which is not a sleep disorder, it's a breathing disorder that happens while you sleep and has nothing to do with actual sleep problems.

I've been rather underslept recently because of an operation I've had after which they told me I had to sleep on my back, not on my side, for several weeks. I've never been able to sleep on my back, hence the insomnia. Not surprisingly I felt like crap until I finally got so tired I was able to learn to sleep on my back. I'm better slept now, and I'm allowed to sleep on my side again, though it was rather painful to do so at first. Unfortunately I've been waking up at 7am every morning, unable to go back to sleep, and I just can't seem to get to bed early enough to really catch up, though I'm nothing like as badly sleep-deprived as I was.

I think part of the reason I'm sleeping so poorly is that although I like sleeping, I like my waking life even more, so I'm like a child - never wants to go to bed, and always bouncing about first thing in the morning. All of which seems rather unusual at my age.