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I'm not sure if it's a circadian thing, but I have ADHD and have a strange issue related to sleep.

If I sleep for 8 hours or more I get hypnic headaches, and massive all-day migraine-like headaches.

I have to sleep a max of 7 hours a night. Always feel slightly tired, but the alternative is headaches.

Potentially sleep apnea? Doctors will tell you it doesn't cause headaches, but getting low oxygen sleep definitely caused headaches for my wife. She didn't have any of the classic risk signs (young, normal weight, did not complain of tiredness) but had nearly constant headaches. The CPAP was life changing, turns out she was tired and the headaches basically went away forever.

> Doctors will tell you it doesn't cause headaches, but getting low oxygen sleep definitely caused headaches for my wife.

idiot doctors what do they know

Well doctors told me it causes headaches

got this same issue. as a teen I'd just sleep 13 hours and then be groggy and in pain for the rest of the day. now I'm just incapable of sleeping more than 7 hours, I have to wake up, do something else for an hour, then go back to sleep for 1-2 hours to be finally rested.

@ycombinete Wow! What crazy timing. I woke up today with this exact same headache and situation. Seems to happen sometimes on the weekends. Thanks for writing this comment, I'll pay more attention to the timings.

Exactly! I actually used call them Saturday headaches.

I rarely get them nowadays though, since my toddler ensures that I rarely get uninterrupted sleep.

Similar here, but it’s not a headache, it’s a feeling of tiredness and unease with too much sleep (8+ hours).

I average about 6 and it gets as low as 3.5-4.5 during the week, with a catch up 8 every so often. I get wicked and debilitating migraines which relate to missing the catch up 8 hours or missing my daily bike rides (30-40km).

I’d love a migraine cure.

Wow that's insane. For me, if I sleep too late, regardless of how much I sleep, I still feel tired. But I'm definitely not a morning person because I just hate going to bed early. It might be a work thing too, idk.

You might try intentionally getting excess sleep and going for a reasonably high intensity run as soon as you get up. If you do decide to test that be sure to give it at least a few days to adjust before coming to any conclusions.

Cycling helps reduce my migraines. Starting a ride as they come on is still effective, but ideally I’d go before I feel anything.

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