sleep problems?

lately I have not been able to fall asleep anytime around 9pm on school nights, but I usually sleep about 11-14 hours by myself (if no one wakes me up). But on school nights I just can't fall asleep until about 11pm or midnight. This causes me alot of problems because I have to wake up at 7:00am and then i stay at school or in the car ride home until 5:30. giving me only 7 hours or less every night. (less because i'm pretty sure I found out that i wake up by accident alot while sleeping) I'm going to a docter tomorrow to find out if there are any medications that could help me. I was wondering what was keeping me up.

here is my doctors theory : "You can force a kid to bed, but you can’t make him fall asleep. Especially if he — or she — is a teenager. It’s not adolescent rebellion. It’s adolescent metabolism.

They physically cannot fall asleep because their bodies’ internal clocks are on sort of a chronic daylight-saving time overdrive — which worsens through their teen years, ultimately tapering off in their 20s, according to Leigh Heithoff, clinical specialist with BryanLGH Medical Center West’s Department of Sleep Medicine.

The average adult body starts secreting the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin around 8 p.m. — about two hours before we become physically tired enough to fall asleep.

In adolescence (starting between ages 11 to13), there is a shift in the body’s circadian rhythms, causing teens to feel naturally more alert later at night and wake up later in the morning. From a biological standpoint, adolescents do not begin secreting melatonin until 9 or 10 p.m., which means they’re not tired until 11 p.m. or later." - source? https://www.journalstar.com/lifestyles/leis...074d0ae0a1.html

MY first theory is: I wake up in the middle of the night a couple times, meaning that if I was "technically" asleep for 8 hours, I could have got more like 6-5 hours of actual sleep. (very possible because I sometimes remember waking up randomly and one time i slept about 15 hours by myself, and i didn't stay up extra late.

MY second theory is: I am stressed even though i don't realize it. last year i got frequent stomach aches or random dizzy spells where i stayed at home, and even though I didn't feel very stressed my teachers thought i was subconsiously skipping out on scary tasks/tests

First of all I want to know if any of you guys have one or a number of these keeping you up? I want to know if you guys know any way besides drugs to get past it? (my doctor doesn't want me to use drugs because they can be addicted, and now I'm scared of being addicted to pills, because i don't want to be a druggie.) What do i do??? does this always go away??????? How do I cope if there is no way to fix my problem but addicting drugs? UGHHH HELLLPPPP

I suffered insomnia once.

I have sleep problems.

Doctors prescribe sleeping pills.

Sleeping pills work

I used to have problems with insomnia. I have trazodone for it. It's a bit addictive, but not too hard to get off of.

You wont turn into a druggie from sleep meds xP It's not like meth where you crave it. All the addiction is, is once you're on it for a while and taking it every night, it gets harder to be able to fall asleep without it.

If you do get put on a medication, I strongly urge you to try not to take it every night. Try to fall asleep on your own, and if it doesn't work, take a pill. The longer you're on it, the higher the dose you'll need. I started at 50mg/night and ended up at 300mg/night.

As for home remedies for sleep, you can probably find some on google or by asking parents/teachers.

Eh, I've had trouble going to sleep at ight, but I'll eventually drop off at 11-12pm. But these past couple of nights I've got to sleep at 10pm or 10:30pm. Go me.

As for home remedies, lavender bag. They work xD

Lavender bags definitely do work. I used to have sleep problems, but it was mainly cause I was suffering from an ongoing cough which just wouldn't let me sleep at night. Lavender bags would work somewhat and finally let me get some sleep. That was several years ago though, when I wasn't going through adolescence, so I'm not entirely sure if a Lavender work would do much good at this age.

Now, I don't really have sleeping problems. I do, but I don't. I hop into bed at around 10PM and don't really get to sleep until about 11. But when that happens, I don't actually try to sleep, I just keep myself busy doing other things such as reading, writing, drawing, etc.. x'D So when you actually decide you wanna try to sleep, make sure to get pretty much everything off your mind and focus on your sleep. Sleep's extremely important and with not enough sleep, you might risk getting health problems later in life, as so I've been told.

That's all I really have to say.

Good Luck!

The doctor is going to put me on melatonin for like 2 weeks. (even though it wasn't working for me before) It is a natural pill and not addicting. If that doesn't work I'm going to have a pill that makes me sleep and a pill that energizes me in the morning, because the sleep pill makes you groggy during day.

He thought it was either the teenager thing, or he thinks I might have apnea (when you stop breathing while sleeping and it startles you awake) my dad is going to check on me while I'm sleeping to see if I'm snoring or if i stop breathing. The doctor saw my tonsils and he said it is a possibility that i might need to remove my tonsils :furawatchi: He asked me alot of questions about stress, apparently my mom was secretly worried I was depressed or had other mental issues, because we have two people in my family who have problems, and my family has a history of depression. He asked if I was crying for no reason , and or crying for a reason, my dad was with me, i pretty much lied. now it's bugging me because just last night i looked up depression and I have 9 out of 12 of the symptoms and it said if you had 4 that you were most likely depressed.

Your doctor's theory just let me know why I'm falling asleep later now.

I was beginning to wonder. Personally, I think everything your doctor said is true and that's why you can't get to sleep.

And you won't become a druggie on sleeping pills. xD

'Tis agreeing with SK's post. All of it.

I don't have much to say. Sounds like the doctor summed everything up for you. I really don't think you'll have anything to worry about. If you get put on pills, take them. End of that. Good luck with everything. n_n

Yes like last night I had trouble sleeping I kept tossing and turning all night so I only got like 4 hours of sleep :/ Good luck with the problem.

oh dear god.

the reason why i cant sleep is because theres kids upstairs that stomp and me and my mom cant sleep they uslally stop at 1 in the morning!

Hmm. Looks like I get the effect a year early xD

People have said what I would say. Good luck on the prob.

Also, I don't think I can make a whole topic for this but did anyone else have trouble sleeping Sunday night? (I would make a topic, but it might be a copy)...

... This is basically what happens with me. And I don't take meds. And I'm lucky if, on a school night, I get more than three hours of sleep. But then I come home and end up wide awake and don't sleep until about three am. And then, on weekends, I can sleep for a longgggg time, if no-one wakes me.

And yeah I have stress and yeah I've looked on the web for depression things and yeah I have symptoms. But... Yeah, I don't go to the doctor for it, I don't take stuff to help me sleep.

:/

Not really an insomniac, but listen to music or something relaxing before you go to bed. If you necessarily need the sleep pill, then take it. You're not a druggie, as long as you don't use it for wrong purposes. Lavendar bag will, indeed, work.

I have to go to sleep at 8:00, and I can't fall asleep till' 10:00. I have to wake up at 7:00, and it's terrible. =/

^_^

Same here.. I can't fall asleep, and then I can never get up in the morning.

Lie in bed, at least you'll be resting, read a book, or if you have one bring a laptop with you, listen to music, etc.. and fall asleep when you feel tired.

Even sleep is confusing, I know xD

It can definitely be hard for me to get to sleep. I'm supposed to go to sleep at 9:30pm but last night I didn't end up getting to sleep until about 11:10pm then I ended up waking up about 4:00am then fell asleep again and didn't wake up until 7:15. I read somewhere that the average person takes about seven minutes to get to sleep and so I was like "I'm not average then"

I have a very hard time sleeping sometimes -- especially when I try to stay up at 4 or 5 am in the morning. It messes up my sleeping schedule, like.. a lot. I wake up at 1 pm, and take a nap at 6 pm or something like that. I've never taken any sleeping pills though, 'cause it's not really serious in my case. My mom said for you to count from 1 to 100. xD

Sorry, couldn't help you much, just follow the doctor.

Hot chocolate ovaltine or something like that usually helps and avoid caffeine in drinks and things like that.

I go to bed at about 11pm anyway so I've never noticed not being able to sleep. The only problem I have with sleeping is nightmares which I get frequently.

And hot chocolate is good, like the person above said.