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I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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Me too! It takes a few snoozes to get me cognitively functioning. I’m one if those people that if I don’t snooze a few times, who knows what I’d brush my teeth with!

I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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I read about putting the clock across the room about 30 years ago. I did it for a while, but I got to where I would get up, hit the snooze, go right back to bed, and be asleep before the alarm went off again. I figured if I was gonna do that, the clock may as well be by the bed. Lol!

Yes, I would sometimes do that as well. But you really should see about a sleep study...this is a CLASSIC sign of a sleep disorder!

Another reason I don’t need one. I just hit the button. Hell, I’m not even functional enough to put together the cognitive thought to say that before a few snoozes. No telling what I’d tell Alexa. Fuck off, maybe???

I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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Back when I still used a normal alarm clock, I would hit the snooze button every morning. It got to the point where I was snoozing for thirty to forty minutes (hitting the button three or four times) before finally getting up. It simply didn't work when I set it to wake me up when I actually wanted to be up. I consider the Echo an improvement because talking out loud seems to take just enough mental capacity to start the wake up process.

I only hit snooze without being conscious of it a handful of times. That said, I've had this doubt in the back of my head that I might have some sort of undiagnosed sleeping disorder. I find myself falling asleep no matter how well rested I am after a little less than an hour of sitting still. I've thought about getting it checked, but I'm not sure what would be involved. Could you tell me how it was for you?

I'm twenty, if that helps.

When I was a teenager, my mom would have to wake me up repeatedly every morning. She would wake me up and I’d come eat breakfast, then fall back asleep. Then she’d wake me up, and I’d dress, then fall back asleep. Then she’d wake me up and I’d put on my makeup and do my hair and fall back asleep until time for the bus.

Then, on a bus with fiberglass seats, no padding, with kids 4 to a seat, and standing packed like sardines down the aisle, on rutted dirt roads with one lane runner bridges, I’d fall asleep and sleep all the way to school. Once I got to school and HAD to function, I could, but sometimes fell asleep in classes if I didn’t have work to do. Then I’d do the same thing on the bus on the way home from work.

As an adult, if I had to sit still to do work, I had to FIGHT to keep myself awake. Later, as an adult, I had to put the alarm clock across the room.

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2) See if this describes you. If it does, I’ll give you the link to the article about it, and you can do more research online. The test to find out if you have this is the MSLT.

“Those who suffer from idiopathic hypersomnia have recurring episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). These occur in spite of "adequate, or more typically, extraordinary sleep amounts (e.g., greater than 10 hours per night)."

Sleep is usually deep, with significant difficulty arousing from sleep, even with use of several alarm clocks. In fact, patients with IH often must develop elaborate rituals to wake, as alarm clocks and even physical attempts by friends/family to wake them may fail.

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3) Despite getting more hours of sleep than typically required by the human body, patients awake unrefreshed and may also suffer sleep inertia, known more descriptively in its severe form as sleep drunkenness (significant disorientation upon awakening).

Daytime naps are generally very long (up to several hours) and are also unrefreshing, as opposed to the short refreshing naps associated with narcolepsy. Sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations may also occur, as well as motor hyper-reactivity.”

Btw, before I was diagnosed, every morning, when I woke up, I felt like a TRAIN had run over me. I had never woken refreshed in my life, and could sleep up to 18 hours a day and still not be refreshed.

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That sounds somewhat accurate. I've noticed major improvements now that the earliest I wake up in college is 7:15 (and 9:15 or later on most days of the week) instead of 5:45 like in high school. I don't hit snooze very often anymore, partially because my roommate never wakes up after me and I don't want to disturb him, but I still need at least 45 minutes to get ready because I'm so tired when I first wake up.

I take midday naps frequently and they usually don't help much. Even more so if I don't have anything I absolutely have to do. I struggle to stay away in classes that are just lectures, which is why I sometimes take my phone or a notepad out just so I have something minimally distracting to do with my hands.

Over the summer or breaks in high school, I used to be in bed for upwards of sixteen hours on some days. Always slept on the bus and in class more than I care to admit, despite being an otherwise great student. Again, it's better now, but not perfect.

So yeah, not sure that fits perfectly, but enough lines up that I would love more information. The biggest difference for me is that I've never been a heavy sleeper. It's not like I'm up at the drop of a hat, but my former roommate woke me up moving around the room nearly every morning.

Thank you for your help. I've been putting off getting it checked by a medical professional for years because I wasn't sure if the symptoms were enough to be significant, but I think it might be worth it now.

The 'elaborate rituals' thing really hit home. I have a whole routine in the morning of things that help me to wake up. The usual stuff like stretches and water in the face are a part of it, obviously, but I also need to do a few mental tasks to be actually functional. I've taken to either playing a quick round of chess on my phone or reading a news story out loud to myself. If I haven't woken up naturally (without an alarm clock), I usually need to do something like that to hurry along the process of actually being awake enough to function and not fall asleep again.

That sounds almost exactly like my life! Here is the article I got that from:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_hypersomnia

If this sounds like you, I would suggest doing some more research on both IH and narcolepsy, if you have ever fallen asleep in the middle of a convo with someone or while driving, etc. But I’m leaning toward IH.

Then, you need to get a doctor’s appointment with a pulmonologist (lung specialist...but they’re the ones that specialize in sleep disorders as well). Ask him to not only do an overnight sleep study, but also an MSLT (multi sleep latency test).

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2) This is where they can diagnose this disorder. After you spend the night for the regular sleep study, they have you stay the next day, until early afternoon. They wake you up and you have to stay awake for so long and then they have you take a nap and test to see how quickly you fall asleep, then they wake you up and repeat this cycle several times. It’s VERY hard to do if you have a condition like this because all you want to do is go back to bed, and it’s hard to stay awake.

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Here is another site, with some additional symptoms:

rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/8737/idiopathic-hypersomnia

Do you have foggy thinking? In the mornings, do you feel like you have the flu, aching all over, etc.?

Also, I can give you a recommendation for a medicine that has really helped me, if you go so far as to have a sleep study done.

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I don’t just ‘wake up.’ It takes a while and several tries to get my brain to start functioning. People are different. Their brains work differently.

I have low blood pressure. If I jumped out of bed immediately after the alarm goes, I'd pass out

Oh no, ann! I have it, too, but only when I stand up sometimes.

I'll give you that. Ha my problem is if I don't get up, I will fall back asleep. And I feel more tired doing the whole snooze thing.

My husband is more like you Maynard. He won’t even take a nap during the day (unless he’s sick), bc he feels worse waking up from it for the rest of the day.

Ha I'm the same way. Just not meant to snooze.

I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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Must be nice

When did you retire? I'm almost there

January
Retired early.

I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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I have 2 alarm clocks. One across the room in the bedroom and another one in the kitchen. I can stumble and snooze one and the other is far enough away I can cover my head with a pillow.
... I hate mornings
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Are you really groggy waking up and it’s almost like you’re drunk? If so, I can send you info about one of the sleep disorders I have, if you’re interested.

Yup

Idiopathic Hypersomnia:

See if this describes you. If it does, I’ll give you the link to the article about it, and you can do more research online. The test to find out if you have this is the MSLT.

“Those who suffer from idiopathic hypersomnia have recurring episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). These occur in spite of "adequate, or more typically, extraordinary sleep amounts (e.g., greater than 10 hours per night)."

Sleep is usually deep, with significant difficulty arousing from sleep, even with use of several alarm clocks. In fact, patients with IH often must develop elaborate rituals to wake, as alarm clocks and even physical attempts by friends/family to wake them may fail.

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2) Despite getting more hours of sleep than typically required by the human body, patients awake unrefreshed and may also suffer sleep inertia, known more descriptively in its severe form as sleep drunkenness (significant disorientation upon awakening).

Daytime naps are generally very long (up to several hours) and are also unrefreshing, as opposed to the short refreshing naps associated with narcolepsy. Sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations may also occur, as well as motor hyper-reactivity.”

If any of this rings a bell, I can tell you about what it was like for me, as well.

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That's it!

I HIGHLY recommend that you go to a pulmonologist, explain all this to him, and ask him to do not only an overnight sleep study, but ALSO, the most important part....an MSLT the next day. Here is some info:

www.hypersomniafoundation.org/about-idiopathic-hypersomnia/

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_hypersomnia

rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/8737/idiopathic-hypersomnia

www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hypersomnia/symptoms-causes/syc-20362332

Also, if you get so far as making an appointment, message me and I will tell you about the med I’m on that has changed my life for the better!

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The same here

Hence, your user name. Haha! I’m not a morning person at all.

Or maybe not.
I just checked the results!

People are different. I can’t just wake up. It takes several tries for me to get awake most days. There are times where I’m just awake, but not usually.

My wife does this. Drives me crazy. Almost literally kicking her out of the bed, to get it to stop.

😂

Lol, I set up alarms at 5 minute intervals for at least an hour.

I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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At least for me I find it easier to wake up if I have a bit of build up to waking up

I would rather have that extra time to sleep than to set it early just to go back to sleep for a few minutes and then wake up. That would just aggravate me.

Well I don’t actually go back to sleep I just lie in bed and rest I find it helps me wake up

I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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My body knows when to get up anyways

Not a coincidence that they're basically the same regardless of income?

I thought your Mom woke you up! 😁

Yeah but I try to use my alarm.

No. I have problems with insomnia and waking up when I sleep and if school allowed me to, I'd sleep until
3pm every day. I have to set it earlier to snooze because if I don't, I'll feel so exhausted that I can't even think until 30 minutes later, which is when I need to leave. When I set it earlier, it allows me to wake up slowly and actually be able to put my shoes on the right feet.

You might want to see a doctor

Maybe. I'm not sure what could be wrong though.

I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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That would be nice!

I know I’m late to this party...just found this poll when searching for the new one about the snooze button, but wanted to tell you this:

When I was working outside the home, I would OFTEN hit the snooze button MULTIPLE times without realizing it. I literally had to put the clock across the room so that I would have to walk to turn it off, to keep myself awake long enough to realize I was doing it.

I didn’t realize until over a decade later that this is actually a CLASSIC symptom of one of the rare sleep disorders that I was diagnosed with.

If you have to do this every morning, I HIGHLY recommend that you have a sleep study done! It has literally changed my life being on a med that helps.

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