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Saturday night, I stayed out until midnight or so, came home, and fell asleep. Awake at seven o'clock. Felt TERRIBLE, so stayed in bed for the day. Awake for an hour or so, sleep for an hour. Awake for an hour and a half, sleep for an hour. Awake for 45 minutes, sleep for two hours. Wake for an hour, sleep for three hours. Awake for six hours, sleep for five hours.
It is now Monday morning. I gather my things and head over to Coccinelle's new apartment to help her decorate, and we shop until we are exhausted. I get up in the middle of one my favorite movies (Dead Again) to rest on her bed. I slept for SIX HOURS - until 10:00. I went home, chatted for an hour or so, and was asleep by midnight. Slept until 7:00 this morning. Went running, had breakfast, went to work, and it is 10:48 and I'm exhausted.
So, in the last 60 hours, I have slept for 32 of them. And I'm still tired. Any ideas, anyone? This hasn't really happened before. I haven't been under any real unusual stress, and I don't think I'm depressed. I'm puzzled.
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Perhaps you haven't been getting enough hugs? I kind of doubt it, but it's the only problem I can think of that I'm really going to be any help in solving.
And sorry to be the wet blanket, but you don't get mono EXCLUSIVELY from kissing, you know... *crosses fingers and hopes that Kat doesn't have mono*
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Farmgirl: That's what I was thinking, but I'm not sure. I don't feel achey or sick anywhere else - just exhausted.
Banna: I haven't been excercising as regularly lately, so I was hoping that was it. I went running for half an hour this morning, but I'm still tired right now.
R: That's what I'm SO afraid of - I can't get mono.
Mack: I haven't been taking anything at all - not even caffiene in a diet Dr. Pepper for the last five days.
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5{ he shorter days your body has been sleeping less overall, and it was suddenly due. My husband has been consistently running a little short on sleep, and yesterday he got up at 2 to go fishing with his brothers. When he came home (edit: at 3 pm) I told him he could take a nap. But he didn't wake up until 1 am, when he checked some email and then went back to bed at 3, slept until 630.
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A week is about the amount of time it takes me to work a can of Coke out of my system - you might just be hitting that cycle, coupled with other factors.
When you first get up, try stretching to get the blood flowing. If I don't stretch when I first stumble out of bed, my entire clock is off.
Otherwise, if it persists for more than two days or so, then I'd think about talking to a doctor.
Personally, I've gone a week of ups and downs, but then I rarely get sick so I tend not to be quite so concerned about visiting the doctor.
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Wait. mack, are you saying Claritan can cause sleepiness? So maybe it IS my daily dose of Claritan that is causing me to nearly fall asleep at my desk around 10:30 every morning?
And for the record, I slept all weekend, too. But in my case I *know* it was a combination too much stress and catching up on sleep lost over the past few weeks. I'm still kinda annoyed that all I did was sleep, read OOTP, and watch Gravitation, because it makes me feel irresponsible, but I am telling myself I needed it and not to worry about it too much.
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I think I agree with TMedina's theory -- it's the going off caffeine. You probably had a large sleep debt that you were masking with caffeine. (I know I do exactly that, and take it for granted that any time I have the chance I will sleep the day away.)
It is possible that you are coming down with something. Possibly something far more innocuous than mono. Plenty of viruses can exhaust you as your immune system does its best to fight them off. Drink lots of fluids.
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Now, I've heard all about using melatonin as a sleep-inducing circadian-rythym re-setting substance, however is anyone using seratonin? I could see this as a major stimulant, with the potential of abuse. Certainly with artificial environments, these two hormones could be very important to our future.
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TMedina, your body takes a week to work off caffeine? Dang...now I know my metabolism is fast.
I've been known to burn off the initial effects of caffeine in an hour or two, maybe less, and to have the headachiness by the end of the day.
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Mabus, it only takes a few hours for the main affects of one's most recent dose of caffeine to wear off. However, the lesser affects of caffeine linger for days -- even weeks.
Someone who consumes caffeine every day (or most days) will never notice the latter affect.
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quote: Someone who consumes caffeine every day (or most days) will never notice the latter affect.
I know about this, Rivka. I went off caffeine in college because it was giving me, um...potentially embarrassing problems. I'm not saying some effects didn't linger, but I got the withdrawal symptoms within a day, maybe two at most--headaches and sleepiness and such.
(Oh, and it's "effect", not "affect". Any good psychologist will tell you that "affect", as a noun, refers to an external show of emotion.)
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Kat, did you go off caffeine? I don't see that you said that in your post, and I would expect that you might not even use caffeine at all in the first place, but if you did then this can certainly cause that.
I still drink diet cokes with caffeine on occasion, and every time I get off of it, I go through a 3 day period something like you describe. I sleep for 20 out of 24 hours, though.
It's much less disruptive to either use a steady amount at similar times of day, weekends included, or else just get off it altogether. I believe this is healthiest if possible. I am trying to manage it, but for various reasons this is being difficult.
If caffeine is not a factor for you, then I would think you had a bug. Immune response often cause changes in sleep either way. They can keep you awake all night, as has happened to me sometimes when I'm coming down with the flu, or they can make you sleep almost constantly. Sleep is good, in this case. Try to let yourself sleep as much as possible. This will get you well.
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Mab, you may just have a higher tolerance level than most if you were (are?) drinking that much caffiene.
My ex drinks Cokes like it's going out of fashion - which means she has a similar experience if she doesn't have a Coke at least twice a day. She keeps trying to wean herself off it, but it never seems to take.
The initial buzz will wear off in a couple of hours, but the increased sugar will remain in your system for a while. If the young lady in question is indeed going a week without any carbonated beverage after a period of regular or heavy drinking, a week is about right for the body to respond to the "oh no, where's my sugary caffinated goodness?"
Of course, this is all speculation and I hope it's the drink and not the bug which is another very real possibility.
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