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carolinagirl999

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too much sleep ? Posted: 04-22-08 22:21pm


Is it possible to get too much sleep? I get plenty of sleep at night... usually 9 or 10 hours... but I still feel really tired and worn out during the day. Is too much sleep bad?

croaker

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too much sleep Posted: 04-23-08 12:08pm


I sleep 12-13 hours a day (so your 9-10 hours aren't as bad as mine) but I feel alert during the rest of the day, now I am researching possibility that this might be connected with antidepressant called setralin that I am taking for about 5 years, or generally it's because of depression and the disturbance of chemicals seratonin or noradrenalin in the brain.

holmes

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may be something to it Posted: 05-05-08 21:15pm


I can sleep for 10-12 hours a night and wake up and still take a nap in the middle of the day. During hormone fluctuations I can sleep 20 hours. If this sounds like you then you need to get in to see a sleep doctor. There is a name for what I have --idiopathic hypersomnia. You just wake up with it one day, but if you take your meds (Provigil or Ritalin) you are awake. My doc says it is like a switch in your brain is flipped and your brain is always thinking it's time to go to bed, so you feel like you're always pulling an all-nighter. Something interesting is that they've been treating more and more college age women with sleep disorders that are similiar. Whatever it is you should probably find a good doctor and maybe go to a sleep lab.

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