[rmp5s]

As long as I can remember, it's been crazy hard for me to get up every morning. No matter how long I sleep, no matter what I did the night before, nothing seems to matter...I always wake up immediately wanting to go back to sleep. I usually hit the snooze until that very last second before I'm going to be late...I even have reset the alarm and don't remember it.

Years ago, I went to a sleep specialist and he had no idea what the problem was, what he was talking about...nothing...all he knew how to do was charge ludacris rates for doing nothing. I remember one day I had an appt for 2 or whatever, I got there at 1:50 or so, sat there till almost 2:30 before finally being called back. I sat down in his office, he asked me "is the medication helping?" I said no. "Well come back in a week and maybe we'll try something different" he said never looking up from writing my prescription.

Total time waiting in the waiting room, around a half hour. Total time in office being "treated", MAYBE 5 min. Bill for this visit: $75.

I never went back.

From then on, I just kinda delt with the problem as best I could.

I had surgery for a hernia last saturday and I've been on pain medication ever since. I've been taking ~6-8 percocet 5s for the past week for pain. In this week, I've waken up at ~10 am every day and rolled right out of bed feeling refreshed and ready to go like I never really have. Despite getting only 4-6 hrs of sleep (as little as only 3 hrs some nights), I feel great.

Did I find a "cure" for my problem? Obviously I can't take pain killers for ever but I really like not sleeping however many hrs and still feeling like crap every morning. What's going on? Any ideas?

[Norway]

I can't relate to the surgery + pain meds, but the first half of your post makes me think you should check out DSPS: Delayed Sleep-Phase Syndrome (or Disorder). It wasn't "discovered" (written up) before 1981 and it was at least the 90s before doctors started learning about it. There still aren't many such doctors, but you might want to try to find one -- and/or read up on the disorder.

One thing about it -- barring head injury or tumor -- it starts in early puberty or early childhood. If your waking-up problems started at 20 or later, they probably are not DSPS.

[rmp5s]

That sounds like it'd be worth checking out. I'll look into it a bit and see what I can find. At this point, I'll look into just about anything. It'd be nice to know why it's so hard for me to get up sometimes.