How often do you nap?

[Sequoia]

With my disease I don't "nap" but crash! I have interrupted sleep wake disorder since my stroke. I sleep for about 3 hours, up for 3-5 hours, crash again. It doesn't matter if I take strong sleeping meds or narcotic pain meds, still 3 hours sleep.

I never sleep for more than 3 hours at a stretch myself; often it's only 2. That means I get 2, sometimes 3, sleep periods a night. Then I make up the difference with 3 naps during the day, a long one around noon and 2 shorter ones.

When I'm wakeful during the night I try to make good use of the time rather than getting upset about not sleeping. I meditate, read, knit...quiet activities that won't get me revved up.

[Leola Stotts]

NAPS. What a wonderful thing to be able to do. In the beginning of my diagnosis I napped everyday. Now, I have learned to plan my day better. I do not over due. I do important things in the morning when I have the energy. I will rest by lying down, reading a book or putting on a movie every day. But I do not need the sleep during the day that I used to before I began treatment. I have learned to say NO to things that I know my body cannot do. I listen and obey because this is the only body I have been given.

[seena]

Sometimes I am fine all day for weeks. Then like now, I feel tired all the time. I go through every kind of tired, the dead weight feeling, the brain numbness, the I can't keep my eyes open, to my body is tired but my brain is not, so no use trying to sleep but need to lay down.

I will nap in the afternoon, or evening, or try to be in bed for 10 hrs at a time. But sometimes I feel like, the more I am in bed the less likely I will feel better, and being out on a drive helps.
When I am well, I can sleep 8 hrs or so and be fine all day.

I guess that is why it is relapsing.

[Bobby]

Hi Gang

I’m a old man so I nap every day around 1 P.M. after using the pool's at my club for exercise.

Keeps the body, moving. Have a great day to all my friends.
BOBBY

[bizzylizzy06]

i sleep like a newborn

I wake up and take my kids to school and come home and sleep until it's time to pick them up at school. And believe it or not, I'm still sleepy. I wish this stupid debilitating fatigue would go and find an insomniac and give it to them! Lol. I also sleep about 10 hrs @nite. Ugh

[sgrammied]

The Nap(s)

I wake up between 3 and 4 times a nite. I take a nap around 11:30 or 12. If I don't, my eyes want toclose at 2 or 3. Still by 7 my eyes are watering and I am so tired.

[jsoxfan618]

I have two kids. My youngest is in pre-school three days a week. If I have the energy I go to the gym, but a lot of times I have to nap for an hour. When I don't get to nap I usually crash on the couch for a few min before I go to work in the afternoon. Additionally, I just found out yesterday that I have sleep apnea, so i'm sure that has a lot to do with my fatigue as well.

[jamilea]

I sleep 10-12 hours per night too. I don't work. I take it really easy on myself. I do get fatigued enough to nap during the day, but I refuse to allow it to consume me.

[daisy74]

Lunch time nap

I work at an elementary school and I take a quick cat nap in my car during my lunch time. The extra 20 minutes can sometimes boost my energy (note the word "sometimes"). I have to say that I am not looking forward to sleeping in the car when it is below freezing.

[Blessings2You]

I wish I could "power nap", but I can't. If I take a nap, I feel gruesome the rest of the day, and it messes up my sleep schedule for three days. Not worth it.

The only time I nap is if I'm sick and have no choice. Sometimes, if I'm totally falling apart, I'll semi-doze, but it isn't really very beneficial.

[KoKo]

Hello

Blessings2You said:

I wish I could "power nap", but I can't. If I take a nap, I feel gruesome the rest of the day, and it messes up my sleep schedule for three days. Not worth it.

The only time I nap is if I'm sick and have no choice. Sometimes, if I'm totally falling apart, I'll semi-doze, but it isn't really very beneficial.

That's my experience too! Especially the I feel gruesome the rest of the day part.

Take care,
KoKo

[sich59]

I don't nap at all. Not that I wouldn't like to. On weekends I may sleep in a little later than normal, or occasionally catch a cat nap in a comfy chair but that it about it.

I've been getting vitamin B-12 injections for the last month and they seem to help with the fatigue

[Krysalus]

a day with 2 naps is a great day

Hey all of you! I'm jealous. Naps! I want one!

Seriously, I have trouble sleeping so some days I get home from work and collapse. I don't stop myself from sleeping then because for some reason sleeping at night is an iffy situation for me.

Then there are the days where even though I am so exhausted I could cry, I start to fall asleep and I can't. I hate pills but the only thing that helps is Ambien.

so... a day with 1 nap is a good day. A day with 2 naps is a great day! Problem is they turn into 4 hour stretches.... Oh well.

[Lendi]

I also find myself on the computer or working in puzzle books or so I can stay awake. I try to make use of whatever time I have.

There's a good article in the Momentum about fatigue etc. Hope it's ok to put that here. I need to reread the rules again.

[Shashi]

For some reason, I seem to have an aversion to sleeping. I fight going to bed like a little kid would. I work nights and get home around 10 p.m. and usually stay up until 3 or 4 a.m. then get up around 9 or 10 a.m.

Very rarely do I ever take a nap, and if I do, it's usually around 3 p.m. My fatigue doesn't seem to be the "I'm sleepy" kind, but more of an energy-draining type, like a battery that has run down.

However, since using the supplements in my signature below, that fatigue is a thing of the past. And oh, what a blessing that is!