I usually sleep 8 hours. I go to bed around 10pm and I wake up at 6-6:30ish (depending on how many times I hit snooze). But I have to take into consideration that I'm up AT LEAST 3 times every night for a bathroom break. Some days I wake up and am good to go. Others I feel pretty crappy but better once I get going. Some days I feel like I've been hit by a bus all day long. If I need a nap and I'm in a position to take one, I will. I try to sleep as much as my body tells me to sleep. Rest is important.

One of my MS symptoms is insomnia. I take drugs to sleep. I cant sleep otherwise; I dont take naps. I sleep 7-8 hrs. a night with one bathroom break. I have to take pills to go bk to sleep as well as to sleep to begin with.

I sleep very irraticly. Somedays i get 6 hours and take a nap as soon as the kids go to school. Other days when i don't set my alarm I'll sleep 10 - 11 hours. When i sleep over 9 hours i am usually tipping into depression. Basically I'm fortunate to be able to sleep when I'm tired. And do as much as I can whrn I'm feeling energetic.

Sounds like I've been sleeping too much. It would probably help me feel more motivated to sleep less.
If I wake up in the night, I often have trouble getting back to sleep and this really throws me off. I try not to drink anything for hours before I go to sleep.
Rest is important, but maybe too much of it isn't helpful.

it's weird for me. without meds I don't fall asleep or I wake up every two hours give or take. when I'm not in a flare I manage about 4 hours,then I hAve to take the other half to go back to sleep. when I'm in a flare I either sleep 10-12 hours or even with sleeping meds and muscle relaxes I don't sleep. it's alpha something something sleep disorder and it's the Bain of my existince. I have had sleeping problems for about 10 years. It seems to run in my family.

Very good topic! I sleep irratically also. I fall asleep around 3 in the afternoon and sometimes don't wake until 8 or 9 in the evening. Then I go back to sleep until around 1 am, wake for a couple of hours, and then go back to sleep until around 7 or 8 in the morning. I sleep alot. Sometimes I can't sleep during the night, like tonight, I'm up writing messages and reading DS. I'm going to go upstairs soon, take a sleeping pill, turn on the TV and lay on the couch and sleep. It is just a horrible existence not sleeping right. I wish I would sleep 8 hours at night and be done with it for the day, but I can't stay awake that long during the day. My internal clock is really off. It wasn't like this before MS hit.

I go to bed at 9:00 sleep till about 6:00...sometimes I still get a nap if in a flair

Cathy

I used to be fine with 7 hours or so a night, but I had a period of major fatigue and was sleeping tons.
I now nap once or twice if I can for 30 min to an hour. I go to bed really late and from about 6 months ago definitely wake up at 3, in addition to 2 or 3 times to find the toilet (OAB). The new meds my neuro put me on was meant to mostly help with having a more restful sleep, but as others here warned me the effect of tizandine is 4 hours, so at 3 I take a smaller dose of my baclofen, and it normally works.
So, basically, I sleep more than I used to, but sometimes have insomnia too.

I'm relieved to see that I'm not the only one with sleep issues. I either have trouble falling asleep or if I get to sleep I wake up after only a few hours and can't get back to sleep. So frustrating and exhausting!!!

Mixupnelly and others: sleeping problems can be an MS symptom and needs to be treated like everything else. Ambien has a short half life so I cut it and take 3/4 and then take the other 1/4 when I wake up for bathroom bk. I also take zantaflex at night which really helps me sleep. My neuro recognized insomnia as a MS symptom. It hit me when MS hit me.

Let's not talk about sleep. My sleep pattern is throwed off during the week because of work and trying to force myself to stay up that when the weekend comes I will sleep forever. It's a constant battle when I actually have plans for a weekend. BOOO!

Renee

Isn't strange....we take meds to fall asleepcat night, then take a differant med to stay awake during the day. :{

yea Chrissy, what would we do without those meds? It sucks!

i can not get good sleep, so i use abien every night
what can i do diffently.

I never go to bed until midnight and never sleep until 1:00 am. Then up 2-3 times a night. I get up at 7-8 am. Never can take a nap. I just can't sleep! Wish that I could as I feel tired.