wonderoushope
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Hi I am just wondering if one would go to a sleep specialist if one basically can’t sleep very much at all?
I’ve always thought it not worth investigating this with a sleep specialists as I thought you would actually have to sleep to be tested. I doubt I could have sleep apnea (as I barely sleep). I have this gut feeling I would never be able to sleep when required for testing (unless they give you a device to test at home)?
I barely sleep and just try to sleep but mainly toss and turn. If I go sleep it’s usually at 4am till about 9am. Sometimes I don’t even sleep but have energy for the day but probably it catches up with me subsequent days with lethargy and lack of concentration. This all happened when I first got sick. I was a good sleeper before all this.
At the moment in the past few weeks my sleep pattern has changed again due to higher fatigue. So I have been napping during the day and light sleeping and have been actually sleeping in night, but wake up severely fatigued and barely can keep my eyes open for the whole day (repeat cycle). It feels a bit like what I suspect Narcolepsy would be like for me at the moment. Like I need to shut my eyes at breakfast and at the doctors this morning I had to close my eyes while Gp was writing up scripts and searching info. My mother slept at my house the other day and as she was talking to me at breakfast I had to close my eyes. This is not the norm for me when it comes to fatigue. I suspect though now because I have been resting (no activity) I am going to go back to insomnia. So now will be back to tossing turning all night and trying to sleep and then just up at 4am because I am to restless and probably won’t sleep the whole day.
Would one bother to see a sleep specialist for patterns like this? Especially as I have a lot of other crossing over issues, joint/muscle pain, food intolerances, ibs, overreactive bladder etc
I’ve always thought it not worth investigating this with a sleep specialists as I thought you would actually have to sleep to be tested. I doubt I could have sleep apnea (as I barely sleep). I have this gut feeling I would never be able to sleep when required for testing (unless they give you a device to test at home)?
I barely sleep and just try to sleep but mainly toss and turn. If I go sleep it’s usually at 4am till about 9am. Sometimes I don’t even sleep but have energy for the day but probably it catches up with me subsequent days with lethargy and lack of concentration. This all happened when I first got sick. I was a good sleeper before all this.
At the moment in the past few weeks my sleep pattern has changed again due to higher fatigue. So I have been napping during the day and light sleeping and have been actually sleeping in night, but wake up severely fatigued and barely can keep my eyes open for the whole day (repeat cycle). It feels a bit like what I suspect Narcolepsy would be like for me at the moment. Like I need to shut my eyes at breakfast and at the doctors this morning I had to close my eyes while Gp was writing up scripts and searching info. My mother slept at my house the other day and as she was talking to me at breakfast I had to close my eyes. This is not the norm for me when it comes to fatigue. I suspect though now because I have been resting (no activity) I am going to go back to insomnia. So now will be back to tossing turning all night and trying to sleep and then just up at 4am because I am to restless and probably won’t sleep the whole day.
Would one bother to see a sleep specialist for patterns like this? Especially as I have a lot of other crossing over issues, joint/muscle pain, food intolerances, ibs, overreactive bladder etc