Boy am I ever proud I came into this question and answer area.. For months now, I have this funny way of sleeping. I might go to bed at 6pm. And sleep until 1am, wake up, be up for a couple hours, and sleep for the next 12 hours. Get up feeling great, eat a bite, have a cup f coffee, and watch a little news, get sleepy, and go take a nap, of old, and sleep for another 6 hours... Or just twenty minutes... My sleeping habits are out the window, cannot get into a routine of any kind. Right now, I'm sleeping from 1pm until 3am, and setting here on my I pad, reading and telling stories of past things, reading others stories, and wondering when bed time will strike me!!! If I get up at 430 am, have coffee, and watch the news and set and talk, all of a sudden, my old body gets tired, my brain wants to crash, just all af a sudden. So I go crash, might sleep for a hour, get up refreshed, or, end up sleeping the rest of e day, and into the early morning..... It's not funny, or fun.... But I know, I'm still alive and can kick a little bit.... So it must be a part of this copd... As our old lung fight to keep us going..... What do you guys think......God bless all who are dealing with this illness.... Have a great day

Yes I was like that for about a year. Seems like my condition keep getting worse. I finally went to pulmonary rehab and now I am not doing that anymore. My sleeping habits are very weird though, I might sleep a couple of hours then up a couple of hours. Once in awhile I sleep all night.

I know this sleeping at all times a day,is disgusting, in thinking of our families, I guess it makes it rough on them as well, having to mouse around trying not to wake us up, or trying to do house work, or cooking... They suffer along with us... I'm kinda happy to see I'm not in the boat by my self,,, I can say, I've found a juicer, that does an outstanding job, of chopping vegies, and nuts, and fruit, into a smoothly health drink. I've had a swollowing problem, of food, and been restricted on what I can swollow, with two major problems, if it's to big, it won't go down, or it ends up going into my lungs.... Using the juicer is a god send to me... I can drink all the vegies and have no waste, frozen strawberries , blue berries, walnuts, pecans.. It's a whole new day... Hope to build my system healthy... There is no waste, don't have to peel most fruits!
God bless all of you

I find that after the stay in the hospital it takes a long time and a lot of work to get your strength back. Sleeping is good because you are healing, but you also need to get some kind of exercise worked into your day and that is where you will see your stamina return. Just go slow do what you can and don't over do, sleep as much as you need. I find that it just takes allot of patience... and time. Breathe easy and God bless.

I had the same experience after an exacerbation which required hospitalization. It took me several months to recover. Eventually, through a combination of medication, O2 therapy, exercise, perseverance, and patience, I began to become less fatigued. It has been 10 months and although I have recovered considerably, I am still more easily fatigued, than before the hospitalization. COPD is a progressive disease. Good luck...