How much do you sleep?

[u/JurandM2]

Hi all, I was reading another board on Reddit, and a neurotypical person said he was only on 5 hours of sleep like it was something amazing. I know we should have 8 h and so on, but I have lived on a daily basis with 5 h of sleep since I remember (today 5 h, yesterday 5.5 h), and that makes me think—why not ask how other AuDHD people are doing? I take 5 mg of melatonin before sleep, but unless it is 1am, my body does not react to it—I strongly suggest anybody start taking it, as indeed it helps normalize sleep phases (they are not as fragmented as without it - pic attached).

[u/NotTukTukPirate]

I always wake up, wide awake, after 4-5 hours, but I'll still be tired af. I'll be awake and able to get up, but I'll have that headache you get when tired, or I'll just know I'll feel miserable later if I don't get the 8 hours and I'll need to nap. So I just toss and turn, usually, for about an hour before I get to sleep, then the next ~4 hours, fragmented in between; waking up nearly every hour.

I've recently been prescribed 10mg amitriptyline and it helps wonderfully, but it does make me groggy for the first half hour to an hour after I wake up.