clinic Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 (edited) I'm on 3 meds Clozapine 200mg Paroxetine 37.5mg CR Clobazam 10mg My meds sedate me so much that i cant even leave the bed. Plus i ignore the alarm due to sedation. I wake up at 1-2pm. Atleast I want to wake up at 9am if possible What strategies do u guys use to wake up early on meds ? Edited August 2, 2019 by clinic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceberg Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Same exact issue but unfortunately haven’t found a reliable solution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianOCD Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 I've been a night owl for so long...idk how to wake up early. The only thing that would truly work I think is having some kind of obligation. I sleep til 1-2pm at least. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikl_pls Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Before I got my hypersomnia under control, I used to have to set 3 or more alarms on my phone, set my alarm clock, and set my TV to finally turn on if I slept through those alarms. That usually got me up in time to go to school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Can you take your meds earlier in the evening? Like, if you're taking them now at 9pm, what if you took them at 7pm? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyRedhead Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Maybe you could try putting the alarm clock across the room somewhere, so you have to get out of bed to turn it off?......Turn up the volume on the alarm to maximum?..........That seems to work for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blahblah Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 I never understood people that can just automatically wake up early in the morning with no alarm, nothing. Those early birds 🙄 Even when I have something great (like travel) to wake up early for. Struggle. And I have no trouble sleeping, I sleep 10 hours a night. I set my alarm across the room. I set it earlier than I need to get up (because I hit snooze 2-3 times). I've been trying to take my stimulant when the first alarm goes off (then I open all blinds for sunlight), so that by the time I get up, I have a bit of chemical help. I don't know how I did it without a stimulant though. I even tried light therapy in the winter and it didn't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DammitJanet Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 45 minutes ago, Blahblah said: I never understood people that can just automatically wake up early in the morning with no alarm, nothing. Those early birds 🙄 Even when I have something great (like travel) to wake up early for. Struggle. And I have no trouble sleeping, I sleep 10 hours a night. I set my alarm across the room. I set it earlier than I need to get up (because I hit snooze 2-3 times). I've been trying to take my stimulant when the first alarm goes off (then I open all blinds for sunlight), so that by the time I get up, I have a bit of chemical help. I don't know how I did it without a stimulant though. I even tried light therapy in the winter and it didn't help. Some of us have no choice. 😂 no matter what time I go to sleep, I wake between 4-5. So if I stay up past 8pm I’m screwed, cause my mood is different levels of awful depending on how much under 8 hours of sleep! I so wish I could stay up late enough to watch Rachel Maddow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeremonyNewOrder Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 taking night time meds hours before sleeping and a stimulant are what has worked for me but sometimes I wake up so tired I just want to sleep all day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluent In Silence Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 I tend to wake up too early. I'm not at all an early bird and it's annoying. Maybe you need an alarm clock like this. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancesintherain Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 My dad had this problem in college where he couldn’t wake up to an alarm clock but could wake up to an old school phone (because it wasn’t particularly old school then). He rewired the alarm clock so that it triggered the phone ringing instead of the alarm clock playing. Worked like a charm. that said, he was an electrical engineering major. more seriously, I have one alarm by my bed, an alarm on my phone, and a really obnoxious one across the room. I stagger them to go off progressively so that as one gets snoozed the next goes off and so on and so forth. It usually works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Dawn simulator if your room is dark and stays dark even in the late morning or early afternoon. Caffeine pills on your nightstand also helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 Aside from taking my sedating night meds earlier in the evening, I use 2 alarms on my phone, set to go off 5 minutes apart. I find the typical 9 minute snooze is too long, I get too far back to sleep. Snooze length is not a configurable option on my preferred alarm clock app, so I use 2 alarms instead. With them spaced apart by 4-5 minutes, I start to slowly wake up. I still plan for 20-ish minutes of hitting snooze, but then I am able to get up. I find it hard to find an alarm that wakes me but does not set off the PTSD startle response. Old school alarm clocks do that, and while it is effective at waking me up, it is too upsetting. On the other hand, I won't wake to quiet radio or music. I use an escalating (in volume) chiming sound, I think, as the alarm on my phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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