Sleepy?
If you have any of the following signs and symptoms, you may not be getting enough sleep:
- You routinely ignore your alarm clock or snatch a few extra minutes to snooze before getting up.
- You look forward to catching up on your sleep on the weekends.
- You have to fight to stay awake during long meetings, in overheated rooms or after a heavy meal.
- You’re irritable with co-workers, family and friends.
- You have difficulty concentrating or remembering.
- It takes you more than 30 minutes to fall asleep at night.
- You wake repeatedly throughout the night.
- You wake up groggy and not well rested.
- Your spouse or partner complains about your snoring or fitful sleeping.
I answered no to these, but yes for the CSM on many.
Find out how to get better sleep from this article via MSN Health & Fitness.
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1Stephanie
wrote on 11 July 2005 at 21:28
Oh, I used to have terrible insomnia. But I now wake up regularly at around 6 am (unheard of before). And thank goodness – I’m a different person if I don’t get good sleep.
2Aakash
wrote on 12 July 2005 at 0:00
Sounds like me… except for “30 minutes,” “wake repeatedly” (though I kind of wish that that one was true… though for personal reasons)… and I don’t have a “spouse or partner.”
So, here are my questions:
1) Should I be worried, or does this have to do more with the fact that I now have a full-time job (which requires me to be there by 8:30 AM), something that I’m definitely not used to, having been a college student for so long?
2) Since I was unfortunately-tired at work today, something that’s been happening off later, what should I be doing to stay more aware and alert during the day?
3) Should I be in bed (or in my case, on the couch… though that’s actually a preference, not a necessity) right now?
4) Should I have a “spouse or partner”?
3MerryMadMonk
wrote on 12 July 2005 at 8:48
I experienced many of those symptoms every year until I retired. Sleep deprivation is a problem in the military, but like many problems it is just something you deal with. The experts say we can never catch up on missed sleep. I’ve been giving it a good try
4roklobsta
wrote on 12 July 2005 at 9:12
wake up groggy, complaints of snoring and irritable to family….damn – that’s my nutshell!
5Jo
wrote on 12 July 2005 at 10:17
LOL .. the CSM and I have a running battle with sleeping at our house. I sleep 8 hours, bound out of bed and he just buries himself further under the covers. Even after 21 years in the military, the man hates getting out of bed!
6docjim505
wrote on 12 July 2005 at 10:20
Thanks for posting this link. I have many of these symptoms, though I think a lot of it is due to the simple fact that I’m quite lazy…