Irregular sleeping patterns

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I have had sleeping problems off and on my whole life I think. I can remember mom giving me medication to help me sleep before going to bed and I hated naps as a young child and it was very difficult to put me down for one. As a baby, I would just scream in my crib so I don't know why my parents couldn't ignore it. At two, I would have just been screaming in my room behind the baby gate and then attempting to knock it down with my feet, I can remember doing that. Then my parents eventually gave up and let me stay up all day. At day care, the teachers couldn't even keep me in my cot and I would just be lying there and staring around. So I was always up at night and over tired and then I would eventually sleep at night. I went to PM school so it didn't matter if I stayed up late. But then it mattered when I went to school full time so Mom started sending me off to bed and she did the same to my brothers too so it wouldn't be confusing.


Right now I'm not working once again and I hope I will be working again soon this month. I am taking it as a mini vacation.
I sleep off and on. I will get tired and go to bed and I only sleep for a couple of hours or three, then I wake up and am up for the day. I went to bed around 12 in the morning and got up before 4 am. One night I went to sleep after seven pm and didn't wake up till after ten pm and then I didn't go back to sleep till seven or eight in the morning. Then I got up again after ten. I just can't stay asleep and then I feel wide awake. Back when I was working, I was taking sleeping aid and it helped. Now I don't see the point in it because I'm not working. I just sleep off and on for a couple of hours.

I occasionally can't sleep for long but for the most part, I think I can sleep for 8 hours.

I have major sleeping issues and bizarre sleep irregularities as well I can't sleep unless I am extremely tired and even then I have to be watching TV or listening to music or it fails

Arggh...Sleep is wrong

Bye

I found something on Wikipedia that's slightly interesting about ASD and sleep. If you check the link here then there was a study that shows we produce less melatonin than NT's, which is one of the hormones that initiate sleep, and promote REM as well. I know I've had much better success taking the supplements (over the counter, easy to get) with sleeping with them, though it's also caused a LOT more dreaming, which is both good and bad.

I think the various forms of sleep problems are pretty standard. I may have to look into the Melatonin thing. My particular brand of sleep insanity consists of being on something like a 25 hour day. Left to my own devices, I'd pretty much go to bed one hour later every night until I was getting to bed at 10 in the morning, at which point there'd be a day where I pretty much didn't bother to get out of bed and the whole thing would start over.

I've had irregular sleeping patterns all my life- always been an insomniac!

Ill have to look that up, Ive always had problems sleeping but sleep aids don't seem to affect me. Never considered melatonin cause of that.

First time I stayed up for better then 24 hours was when I was 4 or 5 and addicted to Kung Fu Theater that came on at midnight. I was living with my grandparents at the time so I kinda got away with alot. At this point in my life, there's no guarantee when I will be able to sleep and its very hard to wake me up. I sleep in a recliner cause it seems easier to wake up to the alarm then when I'm in a bed.

I have to be exhausted mentally and physically before I can go to sleep. There have been times that that doesnt happen for 2 days. I fell asleep at 4 this morning and was back up at 6:30 for work. If I try to sleep when I am not ready I will lay in bed and suffer from awful panic attacks until my body shuts down. I also have an extremely hard time waking up, it takes me hours to actually feel awake. I find for me that excercise helps me more then anything else. On the days I go to the gym for 2 hours I can usually fall asleep earlier and without the panic.

I too find that I need both physical and mental exhaustion to get decent sleep. I'm also finding that as I get older I'm finding it harder and harder to get out of bed in the mornings.

I've also had irregular sleeping patterns over the course of my life.

My mother decided, while she was pregnant with me, that I must be an alien, because I didn't kick at normal intervals. It was closer to a 35-hour circadian rhythm.
I stopped taking naps as of 18 months old.
I was a pain in the butt to get to sleep. My mom has said that I had to be moving "in three-dimensional space." She couldn't just rock me, she had to walk around and rock me.
I had huge amounts of trouble sleeping, my entire life. I remember being up through a lot of nights. Much of the time I would only fall asleep when I had finally given up on falling asleep-- frequently just before having to get up. This made mornings a nightmare.
Now, my nighttime routine included 1mg Klonopin, 5mg melatonin, and 100 mg benadryl. It works most of the time, I'm on a fairly regular schedule now.

I think that whatever it is that causes my trouble sleeping isn't the "normal" thing that causes trouble sleeping. I'd heard about how Ambien was supposed to totally knock you out, that people would take it before driving home thinking that it'd work like other pills that took awhile, and then would fall asleep at the wheel. When I took it, I was still up all night.

I have also had problems with irregular sleep patterns throughout my life. I have trouble getting to sleep (and like others generally cannot do so unless mentally and physically exhausted) and also tend to take a while to 'wake up". I have also had odd reactions to sleeping drugs, including one that actually caused side effects that prevented me from sleeping, without causing any feelings of tiredness or sleepiness, much less getting me to actually sleep.

Anyone ever heard of a polyphasic sleep cycle? Worked wonders for me. I absolutely love it.

I found what sounds like the name for it on Wikipedia - 'Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder'
Especially in my case I think I fall both into the non-24 and DSPS types.

I got home from work on Wednesday so tired that I fell asleep on the sofa and woke up at 1am, cooked dinner and went back to bed at 5:30am, waking up at 5:30pm...totally missed work.

I have always had irregular sleeping patterns. I also lie awake at night when I should be sleepy.

I was told I was a very difficult, and cranky baby.

My sleep patterns have been pure hell for me. Worse for me now, cuz I am now on the night shift and the fact that this has been going on for a while is not letting me get used to my new shift when it should be easy for me.

I typically sleep every other night. I go to work at midnight, come home around 6 AM, then when I try to go to bed, I'll lay there for a couple hours until I give up on sleeping. So I go to work the next night, come home and sleep for typically 15 hours straight. If I have a day off ahead of me, I'll sleep around 20 hours straight. Then I can't sleep the next night and have to sleep the night after that.

I only start to feel tired about an hour or two before I go to work, and it hits me HARD. I got just over two hours left before I gotta go to work and my head is killing me. I feel like I got two hands holding my skull trying to crush it, Michael Myers style (just not that bad).