Posted by Bob on June 16, 2008, at 13:02:50
In reply to extreme morning fatugue (energy fine night before), posted by linkadge on June 16, 2008, at 8:57:46
I have been plagued by this problem since adolescence also. It has always been difficult for me to rise in the morning. This became a more serious problem when I got into college. Finally with the onset of more serious MDD after college and the exposure to meds it became unbelievable. Often, the very medecines that helped me most in the beginning, such as Effexor, ended up causing outrageous morning fatigue, such that I could no longer get out of bed until the afternoon.
Presently, I have more energy at night and see little reason to fight to get up in the morning when I feel so terrible anyway. Now I get out of bed somewhere around noon and try not to go to bed again until 2-3am. This doesn't mesh too well with the rest of the world, but it is the best I seem to be able to do. I don't work any longer and the sleeping problem is one of the reasons. Two treatments worked towards mitigating the sleep problem and both ended up being disasterous in the end: topirimate, and ECT. They were eventually so bad that I don't think I could ever endure either one again.
As another poster in this thread stated, the morning fatigue could be a sign of a more endogenous condition, and for me I have little doubt of this. Now, if I could just fix it. Ironically, a little while back I tried to get into a study for major treatment resistant depression and they told me they are only taking patients that have trouble with not sleeping enough, rather than someone who sleeps too much.
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