<p>I sleep 8 hours every night (but occasionally sleep less 5-6 hours when I have a big project/paper/test but this doesn't happen often). However, in the morning I wake up and I feel worst and more tired than I did before I went to sleep. I don't feel like getting out of bed and I'm so tired throughout the rest of the day What am I doing wrong with my sleeping habits and if there's something wrong, what can I do to fix it and become more awake! I hate feeling sleepy in my classes and not being able to completely follow the lecture because I want to sleep.</p>
<p>Well a couple of things are going on
- You could be over-stimulated when you go to bed i.e. too wound up or energetic. If this is the case, then take a shower, read a book, whatever to calm you down.
- You could have some sort of insomnia(it isn’t not necessarily just not able to go to sleep in the first place). Do you wake up in the middle of night, or too early or anything like that?
- You could be depressed.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>A lotttt could be going on.</p>
<p>First, are your sleeping hours regular? Ex. do you go to bed at 11pm every night and wake up 7? Etc. Irregular sleep can and will cause you to sleep less restfully. I also read something once about a special window you need to fall asleep in…ex. going to bed past a certain time (2am or something) will cause you to sleep less restfully. Idk if that’s too accurate tho.</p>
<p>Second, how is your diet? A diet of pizza for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is going to most certainly cause you to fall asleep at your desk. Make sure you are getting good nutrition. Also, caffeine & alcohol are foods to avoid.</p>
<p>What about exercise? Although exercising “makes you tired” in the short term, a schedule of working out will increase your energy over time.</p>
<p>Third, are you making sure you are not using your computer before bed, or otherwise engaging in “high stress” activities before sleep or sleeping in a high stress environment? Make sure you are giving yourself some “wind down” time before bed, and make sure your sleeping environment is quiet (lights off) and stress free (this may involve cleaning up your room or putting on some white noise to drown out your screaming roommates haha).</p>
<p>Finally, you could be suffering from sleep apnea, thyroid disease, anemia, depression or any number of more serious medical problems that could interrupt your sleep and/or cause you to lack energy. If changes to your lifestyle listed above don’t work, you may need to see a doctor to resolve the problem. Of course, most people go to the doctor first, see that nothing disease-related is wrong, and then still struggle with the problem because they do not have the motivation to make the positive changes in their life that are necessary…</p>
<p>Some people can eat pizza for every meal, exercise once a month, and go on binge drinking rampages, sleep 2 hrs a night, yet still manage to seem to be a ball of energy. Others are more delicate. Sucks for you but hopefully you can work with it ;).</p>
<p>Try taking a Vitamin B pill every morning.</p>
<p>Wow, umcp, that was such a great post! I’m going to take some of that advice…:)</p>
<p>umcp, got it covered! </p>
<p>Its possible that you may be sleeping too much, not eating healthy! I would try to get exercising and burn off all my stress and hopefully, ‘reset’ your body’s need for rest!</p>
<p>go see a sleep doctor. sound like you have sleep apnea. you could keep waking up in the middle of the night and not knowing it over and over again.</p>
<p>its not incredibly uncommon for someone with sleep apnea to wake up 15 times over the course of one night and not even notice/remember it the following day!!</p>
<p>sleeptime should be recharge time!!! if its not doing that then you need to see a doctor!! a sleep doctor!</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the comments and suggestions!</p>
<p>Maybe I should try unwinding before going to sleep. Often times, I go to sleep right after writing a paper, lab report or doing some homework and sometimes that can be a very stressful process so maybe going to sleep under stress may not be a good idea.</p>
<p>I really don’t think I have sleep apnea or any sleeping disorders since feeling tired after sleeping has only happened since I went to college.</p>
<p>My sleeping hours are fairly regular. I go to sleep around 11-midnight and wake up between 7 and 8 (well I have to since I have a 9 AM class). I don’t think my diet is a problem, I eat fruits at breakfast/dinner and a salad at lunch in addition to what a regular meal would consist of at all 3 meals. I do drink a lot of soda though which maybe I should cut back on, I haven’t had too much alcohol this semester because I realized that I couldn’t function the next day after a night with alcohol. I also should probably start exercising more. I go to the gym once/twice a week so maybe I could go jog a little bit more or do something active more often.</p>
<p>Make sure you stay hydrated. I can’t stress that enough…</p>
<p>Thyroxine?</p>
<p>Be careful about noises and lights in the room where you sleep. They could be waking you up during the middle of the night and disturbing your REM cycle without you realizing it. Hence, the fatigue…</p>
<p>Also, if you exercise, do it 4-6 hours before you go to sleep. </p>
<p>I’m always tired, but I never get enough sleep…my own fault. Too much work and distractions during the week, and fun time on the weekends…I just never sleep lol.</p>
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Why is it you think pizza would cause drowsiness? Unless you’re eating a lot of turkey pepperoni (not a bad idea, BTW), I just don’t understand where you’re coming from but would like to.</p>
<p>Because that would not be giving your body the nutrition it needs to give you energy to get through the day. It’s just making you fat and sluggish.</p>
<p>^^Pizza isn’t a good source of complex carbohydrates (which provide more energy).</p>
<p>congratulations, you’re pregnant! :D</p>
<p>I’m assuming you are discrediting pizza as nutritional because of its fat content, right? Fats contain more stored energy than complex carbohydrates, so it definitely isn’t a lack of calories that’s the problem. Unless something else specifically causes drowsiness in pizza, I don’t think pizza is the cause of OP’s (or anyone’s) sleepiness.</p>
<p>Try eating literally nothing but fat for a week, or even a day, and see how you feel.</p>
<p>Mono? 10 chars</p>
<p>Pizzas are fatty, fatty foods give you the itis. Try eating a big soul food meal and tell me how energetic you feel after.</p>
<p>Personally, I am anemic and have the same exact problems. I would suggest going to a doctor, first of all… no one on an online forum is going to be able to properly diagnose you.</p>