Posted: 3/8/2003 7:04:01 PM EDT
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Assuming you got adequate sleep the nite before and woke up feeling refreshed and well rested how long are you awake before you start feeling drained/fatigued/tired again? Obviousley it depends on what you do during the day but lets assume a "average" day. Im talking tired to the point where you want to go to bed for the nite. |
| I used to require a lot of sleep, but I've been on 3rd shift for over a year now and have trained myself to do well on about 6 hours. Usually wak up around 2200hrs and am good to go untill about 1600hrs, and most of the time I have to force myself to fall asleep. Humans weren't meant to go to sleep when the sun is out! On my days off, I stay up untill night time and go to bed like normal people, which means that once a week I'm up for over 24 hrs. |
| I read a study that said naps are very beneficial. They have to be conducted in a certain manner though. You should take a nap on the couch or something aside from the bed you sleep on. You should limit your nap to 1 hour tops. 10min. naps have even been shown to reduce fatigue. Also your nap should be taken before 4:00 PM. If it runs later than that, it messes up the sleep pattern. If you still have trouble you might want to see a doctor as this could be the result of a medical condition like hypothyroidism or something. How long has this problem been going on? Have you had changes to diet, exercise, increased stress, family problems, depression? There are a lot of things that could be causing this. I'd see your Doc if it's a problem. |
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YES!! You can get too much sleep. That could very well be your problem. Ten hours of sleep is way too much. Eight hours max man. This should solve your problem. Hopefully. Sleeping too long really messes your cycle up. Do what ever you have to do to shorten your sleep period. Good luck. |
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[url]www.prescriptionforsleep.com[/url] The NREM-REM cycle length through adulthood averages 90-100 minutes, but decreases down to 75-90 minutes in the normal elderly. I heard/read someething like this almost 10 years ago and i have been following it ever since... That is to say, I sleep in 90 minute increments. I usually get 6 hours sleep per night (four cycles). On the weekends, I get 7.5 hours per night. If I am goofin' around either 3 or 4.5 hours will keep me goin'. Though, if I take a nap BEFORE 4pm, 10-20 minutes will work for me... Stay up late on a Saturday and get up early on a Sunday. That way you will be ready for sleepin' when you hit the sheets Sunday night. Set you alarm to wake you the proper number of intervals later. If you will only get 7 hours sleep cut back to 6 hours. If you will get 8, cut to 7.5 by stayin' up a bit later. If you get less sleep than you need you will still be tired... However, you won't feel like someone tied you to a 4x4 and yanked you out of bed. It works for me... Hope this helps!! |
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Quoted: I stay up untill night time and go to bed like normal people, which means that once a week I'm up for over 24 hrs. That's me right now. Woke up Friday at 1600 and went to work at 0001. Got off at 0800 Saturday, and I have been up since. (2315, Saturday) Sometimes work blows. |
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I try to maintain the same sleeping pattern on my days off as I do during work days. If I change things around it'll screw me up. I go to bed about 2100 and get up at 0330, at the latest 0400 on my days off. I haven't been able to sleep like a baby for years, out of those 6 1/2 hours in bed 4 to 5 are actually sleeping the rest I'm just tossing and turning. Wife says we need a new matress. For a number of years I would wake up right at 12 midnight! Every night! Was weird, it was like someone would wake me, I could lay there on my back and say to my self "Bet ya it's 12 midnight." I'd roll over look at the clock and sure as shit 1200! |
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If the only thing you are getting out of bed for is work then you might actually be depressed.... why no social activities? Family stuff? I work so I can afford to really enjoy my time off. That being said, I should REALLY be enjoying my time off this weekend after working Thursday 8am-5pm turn around and back to work 11:30pm-5:30am, then back to work 8am-1pm (worked during the afternoon clearing trees and brush at home for the new horse fence) and then BACK to work 11:30pm-7:30am... FINALLY got something more than a mere nap last night. [%|] I've also had problems with depression so I know if I'm wanting to sleep all the time instead of seeing friends, gardening, etc, that something is wrong. |
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Quoted: ..... Thursday 8am-5pm turn around and back to work 11:30pm-5:30am, then back to work 8am-1pm (worked during the afternoon clearing trees and brush at home for the new horse fence) and then BACK to work 11:30pm-7:30am... FINALLY got something more than a mere nap last night. I would be depressed if I had to work like that. Are you on call? |
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Quoted: I would be depressed if I had to work like that. Are you on call? I went on call Friday afternoon. ::wry grin:: We've had a reoccurring problem with our switch...half the CM keeps going down and we'd troubleshot it down to a defective ebus cable but we were waiting for it to be manufactured. We started having indications that half the CM was going to go down again so I managed to get the cable expedited (or so I thought). They overnighted us every cable for the CM except the one we really suspected (we had three possibilities). We went ahead and worked on it Thursday night and the problem got, um, worse. So we backed out when our safetime window closed, got the other cable and went back in Friday night. Turned out to be multiple faults. ARG! But it's green now. [:D] I had to work day shift as well as work the trouble at night because both of the other switch techs are in school. It's not normal, but it does happen. We work a lot of split shifts... week of nights, back to days, etc. That kind of stuff. And every third week we go on call for a week. Needless to say, I LOVE naps. [:D] |