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No diagnosed sleep disorders, outside of hormonal insomnia. Even had it looked at SEVERAL times. My doc told me that addressing ADD might help the sleep issues. It’s definitely helped the getting up part, and the going to sleep part. The extra “noise” that used to float around my head (excessive inner dialogue…ADD people on meds know what I’m talking about).
However, it’s about 3:40 am and I’m wide awake. Grrr. So this I blame on my hormones (my twice monthly estrogen shift). Although, tonight, after a few days of good sleep and no obvious hormone shift, I don’t know what to blame it on.
The mornings aren’t nearly as tough for me, anymore. I used to be a giant bear in the morning. After babies, and the baby related insomnia, I would just write off mornings. After the babies grew, and all stopped visiting at 2am, I still had issues in the morning. Very foggy. The medication has helped with that quite a bit.
My brothers, father and I are all sleep talkers, and the most ADHD of us all, my older brother, is the only “morning person” out of the bunch, I have no idea why. My other brother, my father and I can’t do a thing in the morning (well, couldn’t, like I said, I’m doing better about this with the meds).
So yeah, ADD definitely has a sleep issue component. But Sleep issues definitely do cause ADD symptoms. Have the sleep thing looked into, but don’t be surprised if when you get your ADD looked into, you become some sort of weird morning person. Now, not counting nights I deal with insomnia, mornings go lots, LOTS, better.
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