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Old 12-23-2000, 10:47 AM   #1
Paris
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Question Confused--is this a sleep disorder?

Hello,

My name is Paris. I am 14 years old. I live in Georgia and go to an advanced program at a school across the county. I have never been a morning person and used to sleep a good amount of the night, but since middle school(the last 4 years) I've slept about 3 or 4 hours a night. Especially this year, since I have to wake up at 4:40 to get to the bus stop on time (6:00). And since I don't get home FROM the bus till almost 6:00pm you can see how I usually stay up late just to fit some extra social/hw time in there.

Anyway, so for the past 4 months of this year I've gotten anywhere from no sleep to 5 hours of sleep a night-usually about 4 hours of sleep on average. But now in the last 2 weeks all of a sudden I'll have like sleep spells. 2 Nights ago I got an hour of sleep and didn't feel tired at all. Then last night I went to the movies and felt energized and normal. I dropped the kid I picked up with me off and got into the car and 10 minutes later I felt like i was about to fall asleep. I barely stayed awake long enough to get home and go upstairs to "take a nap" (it was 6:30ish--we didn't have school because of a snow day yesterday so I got to go to the movies instead) and fell asleep in my clothes and didnt wake up till almost 9 am this morning. And this past Monday I had a similar thing happen where I about fell asleep after I got home from school and went to sleep at 6:45 and woke up at 10:00 am the next morning. (no school the day i woke up either because of a snow day also). I could understand if this was the first month I was doing these little staying up most the night kinda things, but it's been going on for years-Why would it catch up with me now?

Please help. Thank you very very much,
Paris
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Old 01-01-2001, 11:10 PM   #2
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It could be catching up with you, or hormones, etc. If you continue to sleep a lot, I would check yourself out with your family doctor just to make sure everything is okay.
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Old 01-03-2001, 02:50 PM   #3
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Paris, did you say you were 14 years old and drive a car? You could have many different problems, Thyroid is just one. Joy is right go to the doctors and make a list of EVERY symtom you have. Even if you don't think it is a related one. Good luck, Kim
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