How to fix trashed sleep schedule

[GRITS]

Oh the irony. I just posted that as my facebook status

LMAO....... now thats just funny. Great minds think alike

[BeatBox]

i feel ya bro ive done that too, by the time your up days almost over you did basically nothing, kinda like a depression of some sort, ya stay up dont sleep and youll be knocked out by like 10 or 11 and the next day itll all be normal, maybe lol

i hated that i worked 3rd shift midnight to 8:30am. got home fell asleep like around 10 and would say to my self ill wake up around 3-4 in the afternoon, but i would always sleep til 9-10 at night. BS not worth the extra $1hr for working nights

[cmamtower]

bringing this back from the dead. i've been up since 11 am yesterday morning trying to get my sleep schedule back on track, so im gonna take a nap here around 10 or so until 2 so i can function halfway right throughout the day, and hopefully i can be dead asleep before midnight and be up and running around 8am tomorrow morning. ..hopefully

[GRITS]

Good luck dear, everytime I think im gonna get back on schedule its 8 am before I know it. I have never had this bad of a cycle before. I take my meds to make me sleep but they aint working like they supposed to. But if I stay up till I drop I sleep only 4-5hr and im right back up again then its another 24-30 hrs before I sleep again.

[nautical7]

I found the best way for me was try and stay up a little longer, until about 12-1pm, then take a nap until about 4-5pm that way you're still kind of tired but have enough energy to carry on through the day, and try to get to sleep at about 12am and set an alarm for 8-9am. Should help get you on track, and drink coffee/energy drinks if you need too.

Edited August 12, 2010 by cfallsguy

[GRITS]

yea ive tried that too about 5 times in the past two weeks

[CheezyMane13]

over sleep one day or under sleep and take many naps and then u will really tired, then pass out around 10-12, an do that for like a week, then u should be good

[Autruche]

I always wait until i feel a little tired then I go and hang out with my friends or go over to my parents house. Keeping yourself active and having people to do stuff with helps alot if you want to just try to stay up until a normal time.

Or try going for a jog or working out around 10pm or so, if you have a good workout you should have no problem falling asleep.

Otherwise I would fall asleep and have an alarm wake me a few hours later for a few more hours of energy to stay up til about midnight, but I don't like doing it that way cuz I don't like waking up on little sleep.

[Rebel4055]

When I stayed up nights I stayed up the day and didn't goto sleep till like 8pm and then i started going to sleep at like 11pm and been fine.