@Leopardtail
OMG. you, too, w/the sleep malfunction? I really didn't think that any one else thought a good night's sleep was 72 hours long.
I get the 72 or so hours after my Dr. apt. By the time I get home and in bed I am in screaming pain and so weak I can hardly move. Sometimes I flop on the bed partially paralyzed.
But I can't sleep until the adrenaline surge passes. Then sleep is so comforting.
By all rights, we should be depressed, but the only depressed ME person I ever knew turned out not to have ME.
Sleeping pills work, sort of. They have cut the dosage of Ambien by half. I guess some people were not waking up fully and going to work half asleep.
The 5 hour nights (mine are 6 hours) are the bad times. Sleeping pills can initiate sleep sometimes, so I use 2/3 tab to go to sleep and the last 1/3 to continue sleeping after I wake up too early. I can get 8-11 hours out of that but 11-12+ hours feel best for me. Maybe because I often have a 24-36 hour day somewhere in that week. "Week" is somewhat loosely defined.
I think I would end up severely depressed if I did not notch up my sleep time.