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need help, please

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:33 PM

2 weeks ago I had a massive nosebleed and didn't get back from the emergency room until 4:38 a.m.

scince(sp?) then I haven't been able to adjust to a normal sleep cycle and it's REALLY tickin' off my mom

so, any suggestions?

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:37 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

As someone who has adjusted to staying up all night what worked for me was just staying up until I crashed and then sleeping until I woke up and so on for several days. I'm not sure your mom would be too keen on that, but if you did it for about a week I'm betting you'd be back to normal. If and when I go back to a normal schedule, that's the technique I plan to use. Again.

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:37 PM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Exercise usually works.

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:39 PM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
As someone who has adjusted to staying up all night what worked for me was just staying up until I crashed and then sleeping until I woke up and so on for several days. I'm not sure your mom would be too keen on that, but if you did it for about a week I'm betting you'd be back to normal. If and when I go back to a normal schedule, that's the technique I plan to use. Again.

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that's what I've been doing for the past 2 weeks

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:40 PM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

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Originally posted by Haken:
Exercise usually works.

what kind of excersise Haken?

any one in particular?

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:42 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Well then you obviously don't stay up as long as I can. It doesn't do any good unless you stay up about 20 hours; times you go to bed start to rotate. Of course, that's me and I find it easier to stay up than make myself tired. Not sure what might work for you. *scratches head*

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:54 PM

22CLAWS

Entirely pointy.

I've never been able to sleep at night. As a child with a 9:00 pm bedtime, I would lay awake every night reading in the dark. It's a lot like the first part of Fight Club. As an adult, I have great reading comprehension and terrible eyesight.
Now, I drink.

Insomniac
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Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:56 PM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

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Now, I drink.

ummmmmmmm, I'd try that, but I'm 16

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 8:58 PM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Well then you obviously don't stay up as long as I can. It doesn't do any good unless you stay up about 20 hours; times you go to bed start to rotate. Of course, that's me and I find it easier to stay up than make myself tired. Not sure what might work for you. *scratches head*

wake up at around 2:30 p.m. and stay up till about 5:15 a.m.

how long is that?

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:06 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

That's not even 15 hours. The reason it works (for me) is I stayed up later and later every day. If you woke up at 2:30 and stayed up til, say, 9 or 10 in the morning, then slept at least 8 hours, getting up around six, then staying up til around noon, sleeping til eight, staying up til 2 or 3... see how this goes? Eventually you're going to bed at 9pm. It is, of course, very strange until you get to the right point. Like I said, not sure your mom would be keen on that if your current schedule is driving her so crazy, but since it shouldn't last much more than a week, maybe her frustration would fade.

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:14 PM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

the reason she doesn't like it is because when I'm up at night I eat and drink 30% of the remaining milk

though I'm going good tonight, only drank about 1/2% of the milk

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:19 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Oh man, now I want milk!

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:48 PM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

I want organic raw milk!

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:10 PM

22CLAWS

Entirely pointy.

ummmmmmmm, I'd try that, but I'm 16

Oh well. I didn't start until I was 22.

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Friday, June 23, 2006 3:59 AM

ARTCAT81

I had sleep problems, couldnt sleep going on 3 days/ nights without sleep i was starting to see things but still could not sleep, sleeping pills did not even knock me out at twice the dosage.

what finally worked was, sleeping pill, followed by a back massage about 30minutes - an hour later. 15 minutes into the backrub I was asleep. once you force your body back into a schedule it should be happy again.

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Friday, June 23, 2006 4:14 AM

GRIZWALD

Mmmmm, organic raw milk. Yeah, I can down about a half gallon of that at a time. Then dump the cream in my coffee.

The rotating-your-sleep-cycle-around thing does work, if you can stick to it and if your family doesn't murder you before you get it done. There's also the cold-turkey approach, which is more painful but usually quicker. You have to set yourself a good routine and have good "sleep hygiene," meaning, you stick to your routine, you really sleep at sleeping time, no getting up to watch TV or eat or read or whatever, you just tell your body it's sleeping time and you're going to lie there whether it sleeps or not, and then when it's "awake time," you make sure you stay awake. No napping.

Try this:

6:00 p.m. Eat supper.
8:00 Haken's exercise suggestion. Go running. If you haven't run in a long time, run and walk, alternatively. Pick out a 2-mile route and follow it until you have kept moving for an hour. Try to get yourself really physically tired.
9:00 Take a shower. Put on some comfortable clothes afterward that you could sleep in if you could just get to sleep.
9:30 Glass of that nice organic milk.

And a peanut butter sandwich or a bowl of cereal (not too sweet). Something with carbs. If you're really starving, make a bowl of spaghetti and make some garlic toast to go with it. Sit down somewhere to eat. Eat slowly. Start trying to calm your mind down a bit.
10:30 Brush teeth, do whatever your nighttime routine is. Set your alarm for 7:00 a.m. (or earlier, whatever's acceptable at your house - but set it, and for no later than about 7:00). Then go to bed. Bring a boring book. Read till 11:00. At 11:00, turn out the light and put the book away and close your eyes. No TV on, no getting the book back out again, no hopping up for another glass of milk. Bore yourself. Even if you aren't asleep, you're resting, and that helps your body (and your mom's attitude).
7:00 a.m. Alarm goes off. No matter how little sleep you got, get up. Get up, have breakfast, get going on your day. Be busy. Don't nap. Tire yourself out again. NO NAPPING, did I say that? I don't care if you're tired and your mom is sick of you being grouchy, NO NAPPING. You have to tire yourself out again.

Repeat as necessary.

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Friday, June 23, 2006 4:28 AM

REDLAVA

Is that 2:30pm to 5:15am your regular sleep schedule or what your schedule is now?

Seeings how you probably aren't in school now, I would just go with the stay up as long as you can and go to bed when you reach the time you want routine. That usually works for me. I wouldn't think that one night would screw up somebody's internal clock that much, especially for a teenager.

I went to Australia several years ago and was awake on the plane the entire trip, when I landed it was about noon there. I forced myself to stay awake until about 9:30 and ended up passing out on my friends bedroom floor. I was fine the rest of my trip. And I did the same thing when I got back home.

Just wait until you do get to the drinking age, you'll have plenty of nights like that.

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Friday, June 23, 2006 7:24 AM

MORWEN112

I'd go with Grizwald's plan. I get attacks of insomnia every so often and that sort of thing works for me. The important thing to do is to make sure you get up at the same time every day, no matter how much sleep you've gotten. Eventually, your body just resets itself.

Good luck!

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Friday, June 23, 2006 9:58 AM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

I did the stay up as long as u can rotation stayed up till 7:00 wen't to sleep and woke up at 1:30

explain that

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Friday, June 23, 2006 10:12 AM

MAL4PREZ

Non perscription goodies: I've been taking melatonin - nondruggy, natural way to get to sleep. It works for jetlag too.

Also try valerian - it's a root. Smells nasty, but relaxes your body. Takes a few hours to work though.

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