Also when i yawn it hurts my chest

Daytime sleepiness is one of the most common signs of a sleep related disorder. People often attribute daytime sleepiness to aging, lack of exercise or being overworked. For these and many other reasons, people live with persistent daytime sleepiness without realizing that it may be a symptom of a sleep disorder. Other signs and symptoms of sleep-related disorders include:
• Snoring that is accompanied by pauses in breathing,
• Loud or disruptive snoring,
• Difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep,
• Awakening from sleep and feeling unrefreshed or with a headache,
• Creepy crawling sensations in the legs or arms during evening hours,
• Physically acting out dreams during sleep.

There are many things that can help with insomnia:
• Exercise is great for burning up those depression and stress chemicals.
• Alcohol can really mess up your sleep. People believe since it is a depressant it will help you sleep better, but it actually makes you sleep lighter as your body metabolizes it.
• Eating a night can really mess your sleeping up and can keep you awake because it makes your stomach work into overdrive when it should be resting.

Wow. I have most of the symptoms

It could be caused by stress. I would recommend you learn how to reduce your stress. Meditation would probably help you. After I started meditating I had a lot more energy throughout the day and required less sleep. Stress causes a lot of problems, meditation has a long list of health benefits.

There are some good meditation programs that make it easy. I just listen to a meditation program that guides me into a deep state of relaxation within minutes. Besides the increased energy it also causes my immune system to work better. You can find lots of meditation programs on the internet. Some of them have free samples you can try.

You are not alone . . more than 50% of US adults experience some symptom of insomnia a few nights each week. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) http://www.sleepfoundation.org we should ideally spend one third of our day asleep and esting peacefully. This is necessary to refresh all our physical a,d mental functions for the following day.

The NSF reports that more thana third of the US population wakes up feeling unrefreshed. Also, almost a third of the population wakes up often during the night. About 21% wake up too early in the morning and then cannot get back to sleep - this same group also often have difficutly falling asleep on going to bed.

There was a CNN report a few months ago which claimed that lack of sleep might well be the US's top health problem - they used the term "epidemic".

Now, whilst all this may be interesting, and it's good to know you're not alone, it doesn't really help somebody who does have a sleep problem.

In your case I think that you are aware that you have certain underlying conditions which contribute to your sleep disorder. Your anxiety and your weight are factors which contribute to your lack of sleep and the resulting fatigue. It's a vicious circle - you are probably too tired to be able to do more than what you have to do to get through the day (family life, work etc) and it will be hard for you to motivate yourself to do a little exercise, even a gentle walk. The result is that you get more anxious and stay the same weight and reinforce your sleep problem..

You have my sympathy and I'm sorry that your doctors have not been more supportive.

Here are some tips - maybe one of them will suit your needs. They come from Dr. Nitun Verma. His medical specialism is Sleep Medicine and he is the Medical Director of a sleep centre in Washington. You can contact him via his blog : http://www.slumberhealth.com

1: Insomnia - this is a latin word which means "no sleep" and is the most common sleep disorder. Of course there are sleep medicines available but you can become dependent on them, yu may hvae medical contra-indications and they do not solve the underlying problem. A good natural way is to re-educate your brain. Dr Verma calls it "the farm environment" - he means that we need to give our brain the right signals that sleep time is approaching. Before electricity - when most people lived by natural light, our brains were wired to sleep as darkness approched and to wake when the sun rose.

Most people spend too long, too late into the evening doing things that stimulate the brain and visual senses - TV, surfing the internet. We should stop doing this earlier - if only 15 or 30 minutes to start with. An hour is good - take a breath of fresh air or have a soak in the bath.

It is important to start dimming the light from about 3 hours before bedtime - even if you have to sit at your computer you should still dim the ambient lighting in your home. It can take weeks to train your brian - so be patient. If you can do this it will be worth it - and improve the quality of your life for the rest of your life.

To help the training of your brain you should not drink coffee in the afternoon. Caffeine has a long term effect, about 6 hours. Even if you think coffee doesn't affect you - it does. Also, you can help the process of re-educating your brain by doing any stressful tasks in the morning as far as possible.

2: Monkey Brain - this is the name for taking a long time to get to sleep. All those hours lying in bed thinking about sleep but never getting to sleep.

This is the problem I had a few years ago - I found that a sleep CD worked. I put it onto my iPod - it taught me a simple technique which I still use on those occasional nights that I go to bed over-stimulated or thinking too much. What you have to do, after making yourslef comfortable, is count backwards, picture the numbers on the inside of your forehead. Start at 100 ...99...98 and so forth and eventually you start drifting off - it's as though this simple task tires your mind (or numbs it?) to the point of sleep.

Monkey Brain also benefits from doing something to wind you down before settling down to sleep. This will be dofferent for everyone - some people like to write in a small journal I like to read a few pages of a novel.

3: Snoring - if this breaks your sleep pattern on a regular basis you need to get it checked out - it could be sleep apnea. A doctor can assess your risk by giving you a STOP questionnaire - you can find out more about this questionnaire at : http://www.medscape.org

If it is 'just' snoring and not sleep apnea there are many techniques to help you. Stick-on srips, mouthguards, implants.

4: Difficulty Waking and Feeling Refreshed - the technical name is Delayed Sleep Phase Syndome (DSPS) it is a chronic sleep disorder directly related to the timing of sleep. Sufferers find it hard to get to sleep before midnight then have difficulty getting up in the morning.

DSPS can start in adolescence and is usually outgrown. If you are beyond adolesence and still have DSPS then the cure is dramatic, effective and the exact opposite of what you want. You need to force yourself to get out of bed as soon as you are awake (don't lie there trying to get back to sleep) set a balring alarm to get you out of bed at the same time each morning. Open the curtains, put all the lights on. After a few weeks your brain will have adjuste and you will begin to feel more alert in the morning.

I hope that you are able to sleep better very soon

Thanks ,also when i do sleep its hard for me to wake up and when i do i dont have much energy im very weak and dizzy and sick feeling, what could cause this?

I think your doctor needs to order a sleep study for you. You may just be dozing off during the day because you haven't had an adequate amount of sleep. Sleep disorders are common in the population and sleep apnea, where you actually stop breathing during sleep, occurs more frequently in persons who are overweight.

You did say one thing that set off a little alarm bell in my head. You said, 'i end up fallen asleep and sometimes i dont even feel myself fallen asleep'. It could be, as I mentioned before, because you are very tired. But it is also a symptom of a relatively uncommon, but serious, condition of the heart called bradycardia tachycardia, or sick sinus, syndrome (SSS). Persons with SSS don't feel themselves falling asleep because they are actually losing consciousness.

SSS can be difficult to diagnose because it mimics so many other conditions. Other symptoms of bradycardia tachycardia syndrome include fatigue, light headedness, chest pain, altered mental state (confusion), shortness of breath or feeling your heart beat (palpitations). If you have any of those symptoms, talk to your doctor. S/he can have you wear a Holter monitor that will record your heart's activity for 24 hours.

I do have those symptoms, so i will definitely talk to my doctor again about this.

thanks

Also the thing is, i sleep alot like i can sleep all day and still be tired, so i get alot of sleep im just always tired. my eyes are always tired, like im sitting on the computer and my eyes end up closing, its hard to keep them open, and i am very overweight for my height

my medical history:
i have an abnormal liver,im a high risk diabetic, i have high blood pressure which usually runs 148/99, i have passed blood clots in the past

When you speak with your doctor make sure you tell him/her what you told us about not feeling yourself fall asleep. I can't possibly know but I believe it could be significant.

Also, I am not nagging but if you could lose weight some of your issues may resolve themselves. I am sure you are already aware of that. Even if you can lose a little, you may find it's just the incentive you need to lose even more.

Well u should try going outside or something besides just sitting around watch tv go outside and and where it bright too invite frend that make you happy and make you laugh