hey birdgirl

[Dmo18]

hey birdgirl you seem to have answers to alot of questions LOL, but anyway i was wonderin if you might be able to help me out.
everynight i go to sleep, and it doesnt matter how well im sleeping, i always wake up between 4 30 and 6 and cant go back to bed. this happens very consistently, even on weekends, even when i go to bed stoned. it really pisses me off. so i was just wonderin if you would have any idea what this is/causing it and if you had some advice on what to do about it. if not no worries. but i sure do appreciate it:D

[slipknotpsycho]

from a non medical stand point, you have a very good internal clock... some alot of people are like that, doesn't matter what they do, they will always wake up about the same times.... and not much you can really do about it, excempt maybe take a strong sedative... maybe that will keep you out past then..

[CityBoyGoneCountry]

I don't think he cares. He just wants to talk to birdgirl.

[slipknotpsycho]

maybe you're not trying to, or maybe you don't mean to, maybe you don't even know you're doing it, and i know you don't care, but you come off as a complete dick alot of the times....

[Skink]

I wish I could get up at 4:30 every morning...

[fackfackfack]

:rastasmoke: birdgirl.

[fackfackfack]

sorry for the last post being completely fucking pointless.

[CityBoyGoneCountry]

maybe you're not trying to, or maybe you don't mean to, maybe you don't even know you're doing it, and i know you don't care, but you come off as a complete dick alot of the times....

Sorry if I offended, didn't mean to.

But just so you know, you guys come off as complete dicks a lot of the time too, so don't get self-righteous about it.

[slipknotpsycho]

nah, you didn't offend me, just seemed like a dick-ish statement to say... and yeah i know i come off as a dick sometimes, actually i used to be a dick... but i've been working on that....

[hello3pat]

hey birdgirl you seem to have answers to alot of questions LOL, but anyway i was wonderin if you might be able to help me out.
everynight i go to sleep, and it doesnt matter how well im sleeping, i always wake up between 4 30 and 6 and cant go back to bed. this happens very consistently, even on weekends, even when i go to bed stoned. it really pisses me off. so i was just wonderin if you would have any idea what this is/causing it and if you had some advice on what to do about it. if not no worries. but i sure do appreciate it:D

Have you tried sleeping somewhere else than you normally do? I used to do pretty much the same thing then one time I didn't feel like cleaning off my bed so I slept on the floor and I slept much better and all the way through the night.

[CityBoyGoneCountry]

just seemed like a dick-ish statement to say

Maybe it did, but I stand by it.

[Skink]

keep saying dick and they are going to move the topic,,,then he will never get to sleep...

[slipknotpsycho]

keep saying dick and they are going to move the topic,,,then he will never get to sleep...

lol.. i'm semi-drunk leave-me-lone.. (read it as one word)

[birdgirl73]

Slipknot's internal clock answer was exactly what came into my head when I read your question, DMO. It sounds like that's exactly what's waking you up unless there's some other contributing reason, like a medicine you're taking, too much caffeine, a noisy sleeping environment, a wakeful or wiggly bed partner, or an overly full bladder.

I have the same thing. I often wake up after four and a half hours of sleep and can't go back to sleep--or can't for a couple of hours. It happens to me at least a couple of times a week, and the only thing I can think of it that it's my own body clock (circadian rhythm) going off at an earlier-than-convenient time. I've just given into it and normally I get up and study and drink coffee, then go on to school, then take a nap in the afternoons when I get home. Some folks believe melatonin supplements can help reset the sleep-wake patterns, but I don't know how to use/dose melatonin for that purpose and am not inclined to try it myself. Sedatives are so potentially risky that I don't think they're a good idea.

Slipknot definitely had the right idea, I think. Why don't I move this to our medical area, which seems like a better category, and let's see what other folks have to say?