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Hi everyone,
I am on the verge of ordering a 23andme kit.
I live in Europe and the damn thing will cost me around 150€...which is quite a lot adding to all the money I put into my chronic insomnia issues recently.
Long story short:
- Been suffering from insomnia (initial and late, as well as unrefreshing sleep) which started with a stress episode at 23years old - I'm now 30. I know people who passed similar things but they recovered and are normal now. Coincidentally or not, one year after having taken finasteride for one month and quit due to gyno which reversed..for the most part.
- Insomnia is worse during the working days, better during weekends, much much better on holidays and a few times I achieved remission to around 80-100% of my former non-insomniac self but never while under stressful situations or while working..
- If I rest more I start sleeping better, it's a cycle. And I seem to get better overral with more and more rest but for that I need to quit my job which I am considering at the moment, and I 've done in the past too.
- Feeling more loved and wanted makes it better as sleeping with someone next to you (independently of having or not sexual relations)
- Living abroad makes it far worse.
- Stressful events make it far worse.
- Around 5 epilepsy crisis throught my life and been medicated two years pre-puberty with phenobarbital as I was diagnosed with epilepsy. Since 18 years old I don't have a fit. Coincidentally the first fits happened the night after I took a medication.
- Mother had a few epilepsy crysis. Sister once had a weird numbing feeling in leg and had to be taken to the hospital. One uncle from mother side also had fits (but none was medicated like me), his brother had chronic insomnia just like mine and confessed me before he went into colonial war he suffered already from depression (from age 14 until 45) and got worse there and led to PTSD - now he is fine,sleeping great and happy; Grandma from Motherside is a nervous person too; Daughter of PTSD uncle was medicated 5 years for anxiety with Lexapro as she couldn't even leave the house (now she is fine). All in all the family is very united and happy but we suffer from what seems to be a TENDENCY towards anxiety, insomnia and depression.
- Twitchy eye lids.
- TCA's, Tetracyclics, 1st generation anti-histamines lead to Sleep Myoclonus. Clonazepam handles it. Doctor thinks it might be closely related to Periodic Limb Movement Disorder but I don't want to take dopamine agonists.
- Tendency towards depression...but it's manageable through sports and surrounding with people.
I am on the verge of ordering 23 and me kit but:
- I would like to know if you think it makes sense to order it seeing my history...
- I am afraid to become obsessed about diseases once I run my genes through the analyzer. Is it possible to analyze only MTHFR and COMT genes and skip everything else? I could care less at the moment if I have a tendency towards diseases other than MTHFR, COMT and related, and I don't want to open a can of worms. This issue was raised by a friend of mine who is a PhD in biology and he said he would only do the specific tests for MTHFR, COMT and related and nothing else...
Also:
- Is there anyone else around here with a similar problem?
Thank you so much for all your help.
Follow me as well @SolvePfs.com Forum:http://solvepfs.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=403&p=5263#p5263
I am on the verge of ordering a 23andme kit.
I live in Europe and the damn thing will cost me around 150€...which is quite a lot adding to all the money I put into my chronic insomnia issues recently.
Long story short:
- Been suffering from insomnia (initial and late, as well as unrefreshing sleep) which started with a stress episode at 23years old - I'm now 30. I know people who passed similar things but they recovered and are normal now. Coincidentally or not, one year after having taken finasteride for one month and quit due to gyno which reversed..for the most part.
- Insomnia is worse during the working days, better during weekends, much much better on holidays and a few times I achieved remission to around 80-100% of my former non-insomniac self but never while under stressful situations or while working..
- If I rest more I start sleeping better, it's a cycle. And I seem to get better overral with more and more rest but for that I need to quit my job which I am considering at the moment, and I 've done in the past too.
- Feeling more loved and wanted makes it better as sleeping with someone next to you (independently of having or not sexual relations)
- Living abroad makes it far worse.
- Stressful events make it far worse.
- Around 5 epilepsy crisis throught my life and been medicated two years pre-puberty with phenobarbital as I was diagnosed with epilepsy. Since 18 years old I don't have a fit. Coincidentally the first fits happened the night after I took a medication.
- Mother had a few epilepsy crysis. Sister once had a weird numbing feeling in leg and had to be taken to the hospital. One uncle from mother side also had fits (but none was medicated like me), his brother had chronic insomnia just like mine and confessed me before he went into colonial war he suffered already from depression (from age 14 until 45) and got worse there and led to PTSD - now he is fine,sleeping great and happy; Grandma from Motherside is a nervous person too; Daughter of PTSD uncle was medicated 5 years for anxiety with Lexapro as she couldn't even leave the house (now she is fine). All in all the family is very united and happy but we suffer from what seems to be a TENDENCY towards anxiety, insomnia and depression.
- Twitchy eye lids.
- TCA's, Tetracyclics, 1st generation anti-histamines lead to Sleep Myoclonus. Clonazepam handles it. Doctor thinks it might be closely related to Periodic Limb Movement Disorder but I don't want to take dopamine agonists.
- Tendency towards depression...but it's manageable through sports and surrounding with people.
I am on the verge of ordering 23 and me kit but:
- I would like to know if you think it makes sense to order it seeing my history...
- I am afraid to become obsessed about diseases once I run my genes through the analyzer. Is it possible to analyze only MTHFR and COMT genes and skip everything else? I could care less at the moment if I have a tendency towards diseases other than MTHFR, COMT and related, and I don't want to open a can of worms. This issue was raised by a friend of mine who is a PhD in biology and he said he would only do the specific tests for MTHFR, COMT and related and nothing else...
Also:
- Is there anyone else around here with a similar problem?
Thank you so much for all your help.
Follow me as well @SolvePfs.com Forum:http://solvepfs.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=403&p=5263#p5263
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