How sleepy are you? There's a scale for that. | Epworth Sleepiness Scale

I found this interesting - a scale to determining how sleepy are you.

Epworth Sleepiness Scale | Sleep Medicine

Yes.

Yeah I have to do one of these whenever I go see my sleep guy. It's pretty amazing to compare my results pre- and post-CPAP.

Most of those are zero for me... but laying down in the afternoon- who wouldn't doze off???

Are there negative numbers associated with this scale?

I am tired 

Lately I have been so tired my brain will not let me sleep. I feel broken. 

I don't need a scale to tell me how sleepy I am...insomnia has me at 2 to 4 hours a night these days.  

I'm not sure tired = sleepy?  Like I'm always tired but can't really take naps, not sure how well I sleep at night (possibly related?).  I got tested for testosterone levels about 10-12 year ago, along with blood tests to check other possibilities like diabetes.  Said T was low, did the cream for awhile but not sure it did much, stopped after about a year or two.

(Scored a 7 on this test, guess I'm "normal".)

I tried to take the test, but I fell asleep...

Just kidding, I don't nap or doze off. Hard "0" score for anything before 8pm. A couple might have a chance at being a "1" before 11pm, my normal bedtime. 

I scored maybe a 1 on like 2 of them and 0 on most. I'm tired/exhausted most of the time, but not sleepy I guess. 

I work nightshift. I'm perpetually tired/sleepy.

It's not tired. It's not sleepy. Its exhaustion.  Complete, total ,  chronic exhaustion.

Sleep is weird for me. I can sleep eight or nine hours and feel like trash when I wake up. But, if only get three or four hours? I feel like superman. I wonder if this scale can explain why.

Edit:
So I scored a 15 on the test thing and it recommends that I should see a sleep medicine specialist to diagnose and treat the cause of my sleepiness.

Life, life is the cause of my sleepiness. 

Appleseed said:

It's not tired. It's not sleepy. Its exhaustion.  Complete, total ,  chronic exhaustion.

I kept acing these questionnaires, so my docs kept treating my chronic exhaustion as other things. Finally got a new rheumatologist, who said Who did your sleep study? and when I said No one, he said, I'm scheduling one now.

Turns out I spent nearly an hour cumulatively every night not breathing. Got a CPAP, and I feel like a different person. Bonus is that I have already dropped two medications that, it turns out, I didn't need. And after a year or so of treatment, my brain will have largely repaired the injury (an actual result of severe apnea) and I'll no longer die 10 or 12 years sooner than I would have.

So this morning's PSA is that severe sleep apnea doesn't always present as sleepiness, and it has far-ranging effects that absolutely include premature death. If you're struggling with chronic fatigue, brain fog... get a sleep test. I did mine at home, and it's no big deal, covered by insurance, and can change your life.

Whoo Hoo!!!

I'm finally a 10!!!!

Oh, wait...

Cooper_Tired said:

I am tired 

Hmm. But what if sleeping is hard? I won't fall asleep in a car someone else is driving and TV keeps me up. But I feel pretty damn tired. 
 

There should be a yes/no question. Do you have a child under 1. 

Yes. 
 

You're sleepy. 

spandak said:

Hmm. But what if sleeping is hard? I won't fall asleep in a car someone else is driving and TV keeps me up. But I feel pretty damn tired. 
 

There should be a yes/no question. Do you have a child under 1. 

Yes. 
 

You're sleepy. 

That's a good point... doesn't matter how tired I am, sleeping in a car or on an airplane is extremely unlikely to happen (I wish it could though)