   Tired
  I rarely get enough sleep these days, I often get into bed when the birds are already singing again, and the next morning get up close to noon, with a major headache, weak feeling, coffee doesn't seem to help.I don't understand, even though my hours are shifted, I still often get 7-8 hours sleep a night. But even after such nights I feel so weak next day. And sometimes in a weekend I sleep like 11 hours. Guess what, after 11 hours of sleep it's only worse! Because of sleeping so long, I feel much more weak all day and have more headache, because it's as if I want to keep sleeping there all day.What is this, why am I so tired always, and what can I do to feel more energetic, when coffee isn't really helping (it helps a bit but not enough)?Oh yeah and I forgot to mention that my shoulders are often sore, and it seems to be related to how tired/weak I feel.   
  Execise? Eat better? Perhaps you have some horrible disease. Damned if I know, I'm not a doctor.   ;  I slept for 17 hours a few weekends ago.What had happened was, on Friday I pulled nearly in all nighter (roughy 5:30AM), and then I slept the entire day. When I woke up (some 12 hours later), it was dark outside, and the temperature had dropped quite a bit (Making it very comfortable to be in my warm bed. I sat up, looked at my clock, looked out my window, and then crashed on my bed (For 5 hours).Dispite my prolonged sleep, I woke up fine after that. No shoulder pains, nothing. Try sleeping without a pillow. The first semester of University, my parents forgot to bring a pillow up, and so I went a week with no pillow. When they finally brought it up, I had already gotten quite adjusted to sleeping with no pillow, and found it uncomfortable to go back to using a pillow (Dispite using a pillow throughout all my childhood), and thus, I went henceforth sleeping without a pillow.   ;Quote:Original post by smart_idiotExecise? Eat better? Perhaps you have some horrible disease. Damned if I know, I'm not a doctor.Nah, I've let a doctor do a blood research once, and he didn't find anything, not even missing minerals.   ;Quote:Original post by LodeI rarely get enough sleep these days, I often get into bed when the birds are already singing again, and the next morning get up close to noon, with a major headache, weak feeling, coffee doesn't seem to help.I don't understand, even though my hours are shifted, I still often get 7-8 hours sleep a night. But even after such nights I feel so weak next day. And sometimes in a weekend I sleep like 11 hours. Guess what, after 11 hours of sleep it's only worse! Because of sleeping so long, I feel much more weak all day and have more headache, because it's as if I want to keep sleeping there all day.What is this, why am I so tired always, and what can I do to feel more energetic, when coffee isn't really helping (it helps a bit but not enough)?Oh yeah and I forgot to mention that my shoulders are often sore, and it seems to be related to how tired/weak I feel.Well, how long has this been happening? You mentioned a weekend and changed sleeping patterns, so, at least a week or two? Sometimes when I go to bed at 3-4am consistently for 4 or so days, I get headaches for the next couple of days, so I have to force myself to go to bed no later than 11pm-12am and that usually fixes it. I just always figured that I can't really screw around my sleeping patterns like that.But if this has been going on for a while you should get the doctor (I know you said you had some blood tests done) to do a full work up. Everything he can possibly think of.The only thing I can come up with (using my non-existent background in, well, everything) is that a couple of my friends that had chronic fatigue told me that they had some similar symptoms to yours. But because I don't want to scare you, I'll just remind you again, that I know nothing about anything even vaguely medical.   ;  Well you mention something about changed hours and if that is the case where you have changed work hours or even daylight savings time here in US can screw up your sleep patterns for weeks afterwards!In that case I wouldn't worry about it.If that is not the case it could be depression since that will also cause you to want to sleep more and more and you won't feel like doing anything all day.Also where I live you might have lyme disease or the nile virus from mosquitos which exhibit similar symptoms and those really are something to worry about!It could also just be the flu or a virus that you haven't gotten over completely or as had been posted above it could be as simple as you changed your pillow or bed mattress and it doesn't agree with you.;  We really need a 'Guess which disease I've got!' forum.Seriously though it sounds like your lack if sleep is the symptom, not the cause. Most people usually sleep like shit when they've got a headache, which might be related to the overly tense muscles in your shoulders.  Make sure your getting enough fluids that aren't coffee.  In fact, stop drinking coffee.  Coffee does not help you, it will dehydrate you and make your headaches worse, and if your drinking enough would probably also mess with your sleeping.Either that, or you have a life-threatening neurological disorder that it only just starting to show symptoms.  You will continue to deteriorate until all you can do is drewl down your left side while permenantly holding a stupid grin on the right.I give you 50/50 chance of survival.   ;  Sleeping through the morning and the noon is the worst. Not only you miss the most productive part of the day, but it doesn't give you any rest, it just makes you more tired. I also don't usually sleep before 5-6 am. I try to get up at around 10, and I feel amazingly better that on the days I get up at noon. Then, I usually get a short sleep(1-2 hours) on the afternoon, and I rarely drink coffee. Also, make sure that when you stay up at night, don't sit and do nothing in front of the TV, or waste your time on chats or online games, because that's making you also fell tired and depressed. Go out with friends, or for a walk, or if you stay in do something you like(painting,programming,reading,whatever).   ;Quote:Original post by mikemanAlso, make sure that when you stay up at night, don't sit and do nothing in front of the TV, or waste your time on chats or online games, because that's making you also fell tired and depressed. Go out with friends, or for a walk, or if you stay in do something you like(painting,programming,reading,whatever).Good excuse - don't be lazy, it's for your health! [grin]  I need to remember that one when I'm playing Soldat at 1 am.   ;  Stop drinking coffee, eat a balanced diet, take vitamin supplements, and most of all get some sun and exercise each day. Youll feel exhausted at first but after a week or so youll be surprised at how much better you feel. Dont get to much sleep either, every now and then Ill sleep 11 hours but the overkill actually ends up making me sleepier. Unless Im in extremely unusual circumstances such as having gone an incredibly long time without sleep.   