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(Message started by: UnsolvedEquation on Sep 18th, 2003, 12:38am)

Title: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by UnsolvedEquation on Sep 18th, 2003, 12:38am
During my trial of Keppra ... and after about a dozen nightmares...I was scared to death of falling asleep. It was like that movie "Nightmare on Elm Street"...I stayed awake for 7 straight days ! (then ended up in the hospital again  :( ) I have NO PROBLEM staying awake for a couple of days right now. I asked a doc if that was normal ... and he said with CH , yes. SO what about you all ?

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by taraann on Sep 18th, 2003, 12:46am
I believe 3 days is my personal record, thats with ZERO sleep not even a power snooze.  That record was accomplished about a month ago.

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by brain_cramps on Sep 18th, 2003, 2:35am
Good question.   2 1/2 days here.  Then I crashed for a whopping 90 minutes only to get woken by...

*&^%*%&$*&%

grant         8)

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by 2late on Sep 18th, 2003, 6:51am
my longest sleep deprivation was a couple day's due to drug abuse. longest due to ch was one day. the beast doesn't scare me.  i'll run fer my 02 if i have to. my subliminal mind seems to wake me before i'm a basket case.                                                       ...........Jack

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by clubmakerbob on Sep 18th, 2003, 7:12am
I guess I'm lucky in that regard.  I've never been awakened in the night with a ch.  Always get mine during morning or late afternoon.  I know this is not the norm for ch....but what's normal about these things.  ???

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by Hooter on Sep 18th, 2003, 7:29am
Even before CH I was a weird sleeper, not insomniac but was and still am prone to staying awake for two days. Used to do shiftwork so I'm very good at dealing with lack of sleep. Most weeks, even out of cycle I go without sleep for one night (I get loads done when all the world and my 4 year old are aleep)

There was a previous thread that suggested that Ch sufferers commonly had very odd sleeping patterns PRIOR to CH, and this may be some link to the deformed hypothalamus stuff.

W the B

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by taraann on Sep 18th, 2003, 7:32am
Yup even prior to CH I have always been a weird sleeper....more or less a night owl.  Hmm I've definately heard that alot from other clusterheads.

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by jminmilwaukee on Sep 18th, 2003, 7:38am
You NEED to sleep when in a cycle. Your body and mind are are already in shambles due to the beast and depriving yourself only make things worse, not to mention harder to handle.

I always (when in a cycle) have one LARGE tank of 02 in my closet and 3 or 4 smaller tanks about the house. One of those tanks sits right next to my pillow just in case (used to be always, but that has changed due to shrooms) I would get hit.

Slam on the 02 and slap an ice cold washcloth on your head and you will be back to snoozen in no time.

No, it will not work for everyone but will not hurt to try.

jmin

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by TxBasslady on Sep 18th, 2003, 10:25am
:)

2 days for me.  I was scared to go to bed. Thought if I stayed up, that bastard wouldn't be able to get me. My visits are always 1 - 2 hours after I go to sleep.  But when I did go to sleep.........there he was !!!!!!       ???

Hey clubmakerbob.........where in Louisiana are ya?

I have a lakehouse on Toledo Bend !!!!

Spend alot of time between Texas and Louisiana        ;D


Jean

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by clubmakerbob on Sep 18th, 2003, 11:12am
Located in Morgan City.  Not very close to TB.

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by Drk^Angel on Sep 18th, 2003, 1:38pm
4.5 days with no sleep... Took an hour nap... Then another 3 days before I crashed...

PFDAN.......................................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by jonny on Sep 18th, 2003, 1:58pm
13 days 18 hours and 22 mins

During this time I was wearing one of those grass hula skirts and a coconut bra, Was wading ankle deep in a cool pond looking for bullfrogs to throw against trees when all of a sudden I hear this scream followed by a swoooshing sound...as I turned I see one of those circus midgets swinging towards my on a vine wearing a loin cloth like a little tarzan. before he could get to me I grabbed a purple bullfrog and nailed him in his exposed yambag which made him let go of the vine and crash into me, as I pulled myself up out of the water I looked and little tarzan was standing waist deep holding one of those huge cardboard lottery checks that read "100 Million".........so I hugged him and gave him a ride on my back all the way to the village were we watched Tony Orlando and Dawn preform a kickass set.

Then my alarm went off...Fuckin Bummer!!!...just a damn dream ;D

..........................jonny  8)

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by aprilbee on Sep 18th, 2003, 2:00pm
The longest I've stayed awake is one whole night, I LOVE sleep and I sleep whenever and wherever I can!  I could never imagine staying up 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 days its absolutely unimaginable to me!!  Wow!  

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by echo on Sep 18th, 2003, 2:48pm
7 days.  That was during my time with the CIA prior to the Iron wall coming down.  I was married to Morgan Fairchild at the time.  I invented electricity while Ben and I were getting stoned one evening watch Skylab crash to earth while riding on Columbia.

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by jonny on Sep 18th, 2003, 2:52pm
ROTMFFLMMFYBO......Bro!!!! ;D ;D ;D

.....................jonny...Hahahaha :D

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by Charlie on Sep 18th, 2003, 2:52pm
LOL......

Yer killin me Jonny.

http://www.gifs.net/animate/belvanim.gif

I'd say almost 48 hours but not quite. I was on Dilantin and Phenobarbital at that time. Staying awake at all was the hard part.

MOC

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by echo on Sep 18th, 2003, 2:55pm
jonny wins

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by BobG on Sep 18th, 2003, 2:57pm
I work a rotating shift, changing each week.

Being awake for 30 hours straight is not unusual for me.

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by Carl_D on Sep 18th, 2003, 3:15pm
172 hours
and that is WITHOUT drugs, just my hyper brain not shutting off.

Peace,
Carl

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by FrankF on Sep 18th, 2003, 4:53pm
Six days for me (happened to be my dad's last six).

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by Big_Dan on Sep 18th, 2003, 4:59pm
During CH... about 36 hours...

Prior too, and even now, I normally go to bed around 2:00am, and wake at 6:00am...

... and correct me if I'm wrong, won't a person actually die from a brain shutdown if you don't get enough sleep?... I believe it causes some sort of damage... deprivation, anyway.


-Big Dan

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by Roxy on Sep 18th, 2003, 6:15pm
96 hours.  Not due to ch, it was when my mother was dying.   :'( :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: Poll: What's the longest you've stayed awake ?
Post by goaway on Sep 19th, 2003, 7:27am
Sorry to all who were awake due to sorrow.

For me, it was college pledging.

I woke up at 6:00 am on Friday and did not actually lay down again until 5:22 pm on Sunday

ONE WEEK AND TWO DAYS LATER!!!  SO....

9 days 11 hours and 22 minutes

(I did doze once while standing up in the shower...and one other time while "in the can" - but don't tell anyone! ;))



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