ok, so i think this goes here... what i am curious about is if anyone else has odd sleep patterns regardless of the CH cycles. 

as in, do you have wonky sleep schedules?  i know i certainly do.  our 18D tells me i likely have a sleep disorder, because he has seen me go on three or four hours of sleep  over the course of six or seven days, more than once.  its not that i cannot sleep, i just often go several days where i am just not tired or sleepy.

if CH has something to do with a wacky hypothalamus, then i guess it would make sense that our sleep patterns would be wacky as well, but now that i think about it, i dont recall reading anything about it for times when we are not in cycle, or when they are being successfully treated with something. 

any thoughts?

Possibly, but then there are also natural variations in how much sleep some people need. I've heard of people who need as few as 4 or 5 (I think Margaret Thatcher was someone like this) and others who need 9 or more.

Just because we have CH, not everything it down to us having CH, but somethings could be (which is what makes it complex).

Hello there Auban,

A lot of us take 10mg of Melatonin last thing at night for this problem.

Melotonin is created naturally in the brain as a response to the day/night light cycle. However, as CHers also have a wonky Circaedian clock they’re production of Melatonin is often a bit off.

You can get it in any drug store or similar.

It does take a couple of weeks to get the benefit.

Peter.