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I can't sleep! I'm so confused.

Posted by MadCat on August 08, 2003 at 14:16:41:

Let me tell you my story in short.

I use the computer alot and it got to the point where I would go to bed at around 10am and get up at 7pm. It started 6 months ago and slowly crept up to 10am. I managed recently to slowly get that down to 8am. I'm 19 years old male (20 yr on the 17th) and almost 4 days ago I tried to go to bed at 6am for the first time in about 3 months and I dropped off to sleep, woke up at 8am and JUST couldn't get back off to sleep.

Slowly, however while trying to get myself back into a routine (uncertain that anything was wrong with me) I felt myself taking 1 hour naps during the evenings before bed time and the night before this occurance (Of waking at 8am) I was tossing and turning all the time and didn't get my normal sleep (It was too hot).

To cut a long story short, at around 1pm I managed to get back off to sleep after taking to my mother about it and moving into her room (Which was cooler and not so hot). I got up at 6pm feeling tired, etc.

I don't know if other people get this, or if it's just me. But whenever I can't sleep I get sickness in my stomach, which is there all the time. I can't eat properly and feel like busting out in tears sometimes.

I was still very tired at this point, and attempted to go to bed at 12am but that wasn't working. I jumped into bed and after about half an hour I finally dropped off. I was sleeping for about an hour and a half then I woke up and couldn't get back off to sleep for the rest of the night.

That day I managed to get off to sleep at 3pm and it was broken several times but I think I got around 4 hours sleep. I wasn't exactly aware when I was sleeping but I knew I got interrupted many times. At 9pm I was fully awake, but I attempted to get off to sleep at 12am again because I still felt REALLY tired. Alas, I almost dropped off to sleep twice but was easily interrupted by something unknown (I didn't know what woke me). The whole night was a mess, with getting about 30 minutes sleep. My nausea like feelings have slightly gone, and I tried toforce myself not to sleep today until 12am when I am going to go to bed tonight. I failed that one slightly as I think Imay have gotten an hour sleep at around 7 to 8 pm.

For the last 4 years I have had always gone to ged past 2am. At one stage my sister was getting Married and he came to stay with us for about a year. In that whole year my sleeping shifted from 1am to 6am. Sometimes, rarely, I managed to get back into a normal sleeping routine (Only because I fell ill several times) and was going to bed at 1 or 2am, but slowly it went back into its 4am cycle and then got worse and worse. I have never had anything where I have had sleeping problems for 3 nights in a row where it has impacted me so much. I feel "Slow" and "Ill".

I hopped on the internet today, for the first time in 3 days (Wow for me, because I spend over 10 hours a day online) and started searching for what is wrong with me.

I have come up with the idea that I have delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) and trying to shift my sleeping to 6am (2 hours before I went to bed the night before) had hurt me bad.

When it is light, I feel "relax" and when it is dark and I am laying in bed I feel "strange". Tired, indeed...But it still feels unnormal to me going to bed when it's dark.

What do you think? By shifting my sleeping routine by 2 hours and then shifting it from 8am to 12am (8 hours earlier) that this is why I have this insomnia thing...I think I actually caused this myself by not being aware of my sleeping problem.

I haven't been diagnosed as I don't go to the doctors much, and I want to wait a couple more days to see if I can do this on my own. If not I have no choice but to get some kind of help. My am not eating so good and in the last 6 or so months I have lost 10 lbs because of increasing sleep times. (I wake up at dinner time....)

Do people understand what I am going through? I feel like a loner in a way and it's really hard for me to not have an answer to my problem.

Also I have always gotten nausea when I go without a nights sleep. Is that normal?

I just want my life back. Also sorry if some of this makes not much sense as I am very tired and can't concentrate too well. It's 10:15pm, 2 hours before I am going to attempt going to bed again at 12am.

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