Ok, so it's Friday and I've been able to get up every day on time since I first started my experiment (on the previous page, my first post here)

I know that for single folks, this probably isn't helpful at all....I wish I knew what to tell you, until now I've tried everything to get up in the morning and had no luck.

Any way, if you have a parent, maybe a room-mate, or significant other this method might work for you:

tell them to try to help you get up in the morning at a certain time (7am in my case) tell them to give you at least 2 tries, like 5 minutes apart and that if you don't get up give them permission to pour water on your head.  More than likely the fear of getting water poured on your head will get you up, but if not, the unpleasant experience of getting the water poured on your head will get you up.  It may be unpleasant, like I mentioned before, but you're up, and most likely you'll stay up.

-it doesn't have to be water on your head, maybe something else that you just really really can't stand.

Again, if you're single and don't have a person that can do this for you, I'm sorry...but it's been ~2 weeks and I've been able to get up and I haven't got water on my head yet....although this morning it was really tough and I almost got splashed.

I'm not trying to say that this disorder, this issue that we all share is something easy to get over, and as with any disorder I'm sure that there are varying degrees of severity so this still may not help, but.....it's worth a shot right? I really hope this is able to help someone, because I really know how much it sucks to wake up after sleeping in past your class time and then regretting it the next day... I also know how it feels to be afraid to go to sleep, because you may not wake up on time. 

-Antyok

Rofl....  Yea, I think there are varying degrees of what each of us go through, in my case it is probably a lesser degree than what a lot of the people on here are having to go through... but that's pretty funny (waking up confused soaking wet) regardless it sucks about not being able to wake up tho..

--edit; I'm also male and 26 years old as well, but I can't say that I feel any physical pain after waking up, the only thing with me is even though I'm up and moving around I still feel extreme drowsiness until a couple hours later (some times it doesn't dissipate though [but it usually does]) 

Regarding getting help from someone who lives with you.  One of the articles I read about IHS talked about the problems with oversleeping and reported that people with this disorder seem to universally report the most effective thing that helps them wake up is another person's voice and presence.

Unfortunately many many people with IHS have spouses leave due to inability to understand and deal with the effects of this disorder in a spouse (happened to me before I was diagnosed) and the only time I did not have problems oversleeping for a job was during the six years or so that I was married.

Autumn,

Go to your doctor, explain the situation. He/she will test you for mono, and if that turns out negative ask for a sleep-study in your local hospital. It takes a while to get results, but tell your mother and your school that you're working on a solution and that this might be a medical problem.

My mom was the same way, calling me lazy, getting extremely mad when I wouldn't get up. I too wouldn't remember anything about her waking me up. During the day everything would be hazy and I couldn't wait to get back into bed. I even got kicked out of school because of this because of attendance-issues, and I have a criminal record because I didn't go to school and that's against the law.

I've been sent off with negative bloodresults for three years, I'm 18 now and finally have my diagnosis after having a sleep-study done: Idiopathic Hypersomnia.

Seriously, get checked!