I've been sleeping 10-12 hours a day since Friday. Help and advice, please?

[BreweryYardRat]

Slept for 12 hours Friday and Saturday, and 11 hours on Sunday. Friday and Sunday I woke up after 8-9 hours and then took 3-4 hour naps later each day. Saturday I slept straight through for the whole 12 hours.

Slept for 10 hours (with two brief interruptions, lasting all of five minutes each) last night, and I still feel like I'm going to pass out.

This is starting to worry me.

Anybody got any ideas for the cause? It can't just be my body catching up on its sleep-that would have been valid for the first two days or so, but now it's going beyond that.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I've been doing the same and I'm still exhausted.

I think I'm anemic.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. mono?

[BreweryYardRat]

8. Y'know, it could be.

My girlfriend said she's been feeling tired all the time lately as well.

What's the incubation time on mono, anyway? I last saw her a week from this past Saturday/Sunday.

[crim son]

3. I always sleep like crazy instead of getting sick.

Everybody in my house will have a terrible cold and I sleep through it. Also, your internal clock is probably screwed up a bit. Lastly: depression. The more you sleep the more of life you miss, the more sleep you want.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. My first thought would be mono...but I'm not a doctor...

if you are really worried about the fatigue, go see your doc. He/she will do a better job of finding out whats wrong with you than random internet people

[KitchenWitch]

5. I would seek medical attention

that just doesn't sound right.

I was severly anemic for a long time and one of the symptoms was fatigue.

I am still mildly anemic, so I still have some residual fatigue left over.

[deucemagnet]

6. It could be SAD

(Seasonal Affective Disorder) Doing something as simple as getting out in the sunlight for an hour or so a day could help.

[BreweryYardRat]

9. I don't get much sun, but I've never had anything like SAD.

I like gray days. Besides, I'm in sunny Florida. Just hoofing to class and back during the school year gets me an hour's worth of sun a day.

[deucemagnet]

10. You'd be surprised!

I had the same symptoms you described during a particularly sunless Buffalo winter. Light therapy cleared it up within 3 days.

[LeftyMom]

7. Are you fighting off an illness?

My body will do that when I'm getting sick sometimes.

Other than that- are you exhausted or a bit depressed? Has school been harder than normal lately?

Get better, so I can get you a beer or three in a few weeks. :toast:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. Seek medical attention!!!

You could have an infectious illness like mono, a non-infectious condition like a heart condition, or a chemical condition like depression or low thyroid.

[TimeChaser]

12. Locking

Please see a doctor for medical advice.

TimeChaser
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