Yep. As well as fatigue and narcolepsy it can give you hallucinations and all sorts of weird stuff, apparently.
you aint joking . i'm getting by on about 4 hrs sleep per night on average at present & it's a good job i've been retired cos i dread to think of how i'd work atm due to lack of sleep.
Same mate, due to medication I’ve been down to 3 hours lately, fortunately the meds are being reduced now and I’m back up to about 5 hrs a night. But it’s something I’ve suffered from over the years on and off without meds causing it, grim ****.
in the weeks when it has been really bad i've taken the extreme step of drinking quite a bit with a side order of opiates. Thing about that ,apart from the obvious, although i may well not be awake for 7-8 hrs i'm not sure it counts as sleep. I've had problems with sleep ever since my kidney failed & how ill i became but it would be say 2 nights in a week with the others ok. It is just the last year or so it has become more constant though had a period a couple of months ago where i was sleeping ok(ish). Might need to talk to the quack but think it is most likely related to the fact my feet are playing up again with the skin collapsing and infections setting in.
Liking that post seems inappropriate somehow. Sounds terrible mate, you have my sympathies. Hope you can find some sort of solution.
cheers. most of my problems are insoluble , or very risky to attempt, so its just a case of managing them and you sort of get used to it & come up with strategies to get round them as much as possible.
I use a mask, it was brilliant initially but now seems to have less of an effect. I average 4 to 4.5 hrs a night, but often disturbed sleep. I am not overweight, (12 st 10), but the specialist says I have a large neck (size 17.5 collar) and this causes the muscles in my neck to relax when I fall into a deep sleep and then my throat closes up. This means oxygen does not get to where it should do and after about 30 seconds I wake up. When I was tested this was happening every couple of minutes so I was effectively having very little sleep.
This may sound like a stupid question, but are you aware that you're awake? What I mean is, I've heard of people whose sleep is repeatedly interrupted but they don't realise it, meaning they're getting less sleep than they think they are. They're waking into a semi-conscious state which they don't recall.
No you are not aware you are awake, you tend to gasp for air like a long snoring noise then go back to sleep ( so my wife tells me). That is the worst part because you think you have had a full nights sleep, but you haven't and then you feel knackered all day. Until I was diagnosed I thought I had a serious disease as I was so exhausted, it's a pain and makes you more prone to cardiac problems but not a killer in itself. Unless you fall asleep at the wheel of course.
didn't realise you wouldn't actually know. Can see why you were so worried considering how dodgy i feel even with 3-4 hrs of uninterrupted sleep. At least you know what the problem which helps even if it is still crap.
i was going to make a crack about LFC's support being halved if they bring in Euthanasia but decided it would be in poor taste so i didn't
I've had insomnia most of my life. Its actually less of a problem now than when younger. Until my early 30's I would be on a 3 or 4 night rotation. First two nights a few hours sleep tops... Followed by the third night I'd be so exhausted I would sleep. As I'm getting older it's getting better... Probably only a couple nights a week I don't sleep, or just get a few hours. (My thing is, if I fall asleep, even for 5 minutes and then wake up, I can't fall back asleep). The difference is, when I was 30 and hadn't slept for two nights... I felt a tired but otherwise ok. Now on the backside of 30, if I don't sleep one night I feel awful the next day. I'm sleeping more but it's really hurting me more the days I don't. I used to view insomnia as free "me-time". Now not so much.
