Do I have a sleep disorder, and if so, what?!
Question: I can go to bed and be sleepy, but I can't sleep. I'll lay in bed for hours before I finally fall asleep around 3 AM, and it sucks because I have school. Then on the weekends when I don't have school, I'll go to bed when I want, which is like at 3-4 AM, and sleep, but wake up several times in the morning, but fall asleep soon after waking up. It's been this way for a long time now. Do I have a sleep disorder?
Answers: I can go to bed and be sleepy, but I can't sleep. I'll lay in bed for hours before I finally fall asleep around 3 AM, and it sucks because I have school. Then on the weekends when I don't have school, I'll go to bed when I want, which is like at 3-4 AM, and sleep, but wake up several times in the morning, but fall asleep soon after waking up. It's been this way for a long time now. Do I have a sleep disorder?
No sleep disorder. Sounds like you're not a morning person and you've conditioned yourself not to fall asleep til the wee hours of the morning. You go to be at 3-4 am on the weekends, and then 10pm during the week - of course you're screwed up.
They say if you have problems sleeping, that you need to have a consistent sleep time every night 10pm 7 days a week or whatever.
So start conditioning yourself to go to bed earlier on the weekends. start with 3am, then 2am, then 1am. In a couple months, you'll probably be falling alseep at 10pm!!
Looks more like sleep hygiene to me. You're in school, so stress is an important contributor. Try to have a regular bedtime and wakeup hour. Use your bed only to sleep. Sometimes you read or study in bed, and by the time you feel sleepy and you want to fall asleep, you can't. Do not exercise at least 5 hours before bedtime. Warm milk before bedtime helps. Try to reduce soda, alcohol, or caffeine daily.
There is no POSSIBLE way that anyone on YA is going to be able to answer this accurately for you. The things you describe may be an indication of a sleep disorder, but that is not really a lay person's term, nor does the real information needed to diagnose come from the person's own assessment of how they sleep, alone. This needs to be diagnosed in a lab with equipment that monitors your brain wave patterns, oxygen saturation levels, movements of arms and legs, etc., for a night's sleep. My doctor had me spend a night in a sleep lab, and my intake info was that I sleep soundly. As it turns out, I don't sleep soundly at all, based on the levels of sleep they got from the brain wave patterns. If this situation with your sleep impacts your well being, stop guessing. GO TO YOUR DOCTOR!!!!!
nah, don't think you have that.
your own body clock will let you know, amazing eh.
everyone is different some need more sleep than others, i sleep for 5 hours, and wake i get stressed as i make myself believe not enough sleep! yet i am wide awake.
so just try some relaxing methods initially, then if you still feel you have a problem look into this a little deeper.
one more thing.... is when you do go to sleep at 3 am. has it occurred to you that the sleep you have had is full quality sleep.
its quality not quantity.
hope that has helped.
im 13 and im the same way! if you get any answers please tell me!
i hope it works out
well..........that used to happen 2 ma all the time
and all i could do is just lay in bed and hope i can get to sleep soon
i know how you feel its like torcher
maybe its not a sleep disorder you need to find something to do like reding and reading @ night makes you sleepy and eventually you can get to sleep
...............get better soon............