Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse..

[Hikari]

I always figured there was something odd about my sleeping patterns but I never really thought much about it. I always figured that the whole fact that I'd pass out in classes sometimes without warning had something to do with my ADD even if I was on medication at the time. Lately I've been exhausted no matter how much sleep I get and it's just been getting worse over the years. Then today after forgetting to bring a second dose of my ritalin with me and not taking it I collapsed in the middle of a test and took on the features of a drunk. The professor helped me out of the class while I babbled incoherently unable to say what I wanted to. I couldn't walk straight my head kept sinking down as well as the rest of my body. My dad was pissed beyond all reason that he had to take the hour drive down to the tech school to pick me up while I continued to babble until I lost consciousness in the truck for god knows how long. Here I was thinking I could handle this. I figured I could take care of this no matter what it was.


I went to the hospital last night to make sure there was nothing physically wrong with me and everything came back normal. I want to get tested for a sleeping disorder but sleep labs are incredibly expensive. I mean sure I thought narcolepsy might be a possiblity, but I never thought about it seriously. Everything went mostly back to normal once I got home and got some ritalin in me. Still I'm a little weak even now I'm nodding a bit. Why the fuck does this shit have to happen to me? ><



Alright bring on the flames about this being a DP-ish thread.. It might just be enough to wake my ass up..

 

[Recidiva]

Nightmare, I'm so sorry to hear it.

*hugs*

What are you gonna do now?

 

[Image]

I'd say there was definitely something not right with you. I mean that in relation to this episode A sleep disorder? It sounds more like some kind of chemical or neurological disorder...

Do you remember everything even while you weren't lucid?

 

[Hikari]

Nightmare, I'm so sorry to hear it.

*hugs*

What are you gonna do now?

To tell you the truth I really don't know. I'm too much of a mess to do my work properly. I've been trying, but I've been so exhausted recently that I've been unable to take in the required reading..

 

[Recidiva]

To tell you the truth I really don't know. I'm too much of a mess to do my work properly. I've been trying, but I've been so exhausted recently that I've been unable to take in the required reading..

Okay. I've had my own fun tricks with brain chemistry. If you need some help picking your way through this, let me know.

I've always been unable to get enough sleep, ever. I didn't even know it for years.

I've tried lots and lots of stuff.

 

[Hikari]

I'd say there was definitely something not right with you. I mean that in relation to this episode A sleep disorder? It sounds more like some kind of chemical or neurological disorder...

Do you remember everything even while you weren't lucid?

Weirdest thing is that even though my vision and my walking was impaired I could hear everything just fine and make sense of it. It was a struggle to pull myself together. I would go in and out of it. Usually for a few minutes I would be coherent and make sense then I'd go limp again. It took all of my concentration to keep myself from walking into walls and poles or from falling over. I really didn't think it was that bad until today.

 

[Recidiva]

Weirdest thing is that even though my vision and my walking was impaired I could hear everything just fine and make sense of it. It was a struggle to pull myself together. I would go in and out of it. Usually for a few minutes I would be coherent and make sense then I'd go limp again. It took all of my concentration to keep myself from walking into walls and poles or from falling over. I really didn't think it was that bad until today.

Has your practitioner done neurological workups for seizures? MRI, EEG?

 

[Hikari]

Has your practitioner done neurological workups for seizures? MRI, EEG?

I haven't had any of those kinds of tests done ever.. Probably should have. Whenever he'd ask me if I was sleeping okay I said yeah. Cause I mean I usually got to sleep no problem. Sometimes I'd have insomnia but never for very long usually after something incredibly scary on television. I figured the times I passed out were just triggered by my ADD and that maybe the medication wasn't working. Infact now that I think about it every complaint I ever had on ADD medication was that I couldn't stop falling asleep in classes no matter how much sleep I got the night before.

 

[Recidiva]

I haven't had any of those kinds of tests done ever.. Probably should have. Whenever he'd ask me if I was sleeping okay I said yeah. Cause I mean I usually got to sleep no problem. Sometimes I'd have insomnia but never for very long usually after something incredibly scary on television. I figured the times I passed out were just triggered by my ADD and that maybe the medication wasn't working. Infact now that I think about it every complaint I ever had on ADD medication was that I couldn't stop falling asleep in classes no matter how much sleep I got the night before.

Okay, it's a good idea for you to relax as much as you can, and try to get yourself some neurology workup.

Be prepared for some folks not knowing what they're doing and blaming it all on you. I get migraines and insomnia.

I'm on Elavil and Imitrex.

For years I took 2 melatonin, 2 Benadryl a night to get any sleep at all.

ADD medication is tough, if this is a new trial, be a really good advocate for yourself and make sure you get to someone who knows what they're doing and gives you stuff that works, not blames you for it not working.

 

[Hikari]

Okay, it's a good idea for you to relax as much as you can, and try to get yourself some neurology workup.

Be prepared for some folks not knowing what they're doing and blaming it all on you. I get migraines and insomnia.

I'm on Elavil and Imitrex.

For years I took 2 melatonin, 2 Benadryl a night to get any sleep at all.

ADD medication is tough, if this is a new trial, be a really good advocate for yourself and make sure you get to someone who knows what they're doing and gives you stuff that works, not blames you for it not working.

Weirdest thing is that I'm just fine at night, but recently I've started passing out around 11 every night. It's creepy.. I woke up one time from it at 5 in the morning and found that I'd left everything on. Lights, computer, television.. I couldn't remember how I'd fallen asleep in the first place..

 

[Recidiva]

Weirdest thing is that I'm just fine at night, but recently I've started passing out around 11 every night. It's creepy.. I woke up one time from it at 5 in the morning and found that I'd left everything on. Lights, computer, television.. I couldn't remember how I'd fallen asleep in the first place..

Yeah, that's a sign that you should skeedaddle to a good practitioner who can 'splain it to you if they can. Not "Huh. Weird."

Passing out completely in general isn't a good drug interaction or neurological sign.

 

[Hikari]

Yeah, that's a sign that you should skeedaddle to a good practitioner who can 'splain it to you if they can. Not "Huh. Weird."

Passing out completely in general isn't a good drug interaction or neurological sign.

Yeah well for now I'm gonna take another nap and take it from there.. See you guys later..

 

[Recidiva]

Yeah well for now I'm gonna take another nap and take it from there.. See you guys later..

Good plan, take care of yourself honey

 

[Hikari]

Mom dragged my ass to the hospital again and still they found nothing. So I think my regular doctor is probably going to set up an appointment to get my head checked out. I got an overabundance of sleep lastnight so I'm feeling pretty good today. Though I should probably take another nap just to be sure. Maybe that would help..

 

[Recidiva]

Mom dragged my ass to the hospital again and still they found nothing. So I think my regular doctor is probably going to set up an appointment to get my head checked out. I got an overabundance of sleep lastnight so I'm feeling pretty good today. Though I should probably take another nap just to be sure. Maybe that would help..

Okay. Yeah, an emergency room isn't set up to do a neurological workup if your emergency is intermittent.

Neurologists are better set up to do this, getting a referral might take a while.

 

[Mansa Musa]

Could be diabetes. My grandmother suffered from the same symptoms.

 

[glamorilla]

now what would be really scary is if they did tests on you like in the exorcist or a nightmare on elm street...you know...the part where nancy is in the hospital room and they put her to sleep and she starts to have a nightmare and her readings go off scale and she wakes up with freddy kruegars hat?

 

[DesertDave]

now what would be really scary is if they did tests on you like in the exorcist or a nightmare on elm street...you know...the part where nancy is in the hospital room and they put her to sleep and she starts to have a nightmare and her readings go off scale and she wakes up with freddy kruegars hat?

So THAT'S where I left my hat! Thanks for the help, dearie.

Pleasant dreams to you.

 

[Lavared]

Has your practitioner done neurological workups for seizures? MRI, EEG?

Good idea. Get this checked our Hikari.

Please take the precaution of not driving for a while. You don't want to hurt yourself or, God forbid, live with the guilt of hurting someone else for the rest of your life.

 

[Hikari]

Could be diabetes. My grandmother suffered from the same symptoms.

Nope I've been tested for that.. No diabetes..

 

[Hikari]

now what would be really scary is if they did tests on you like in the exorcist or a nightmare on elm street...you know...the part where nancy is in the hospital room and they put her to sleep and she starts to have a nightmare and her readings go off scale and she wakes up with freddy kruegars hat?

That would be scary...O.O

 

[GeorgeWBush]

I know that if you do have a sleeping disorder it will affect your sleep and you will be sleepy even after 12 hours of sleep.

I went in to see if i had anything wrong, and they found my oxygen levels had dropped 60% and i stopped breathing 70 times in an hour, so now i sleep with a machine that forces air into my system to keep all the paths open, i do sleep a lot better.

I was told by the guy that was taking all the wires off me that if his chain saw sounded like i did when i snored, he would have been very affraid of it.

But you should get checked for sleep apnea they told me i could have gone to sleep and never woke up, so go and have it done that way you will know if that is the problem.

 

[jumpingjesus]

I always figured there was something odd about my sleeping patterns but I never really thought much about it. I always figured that the whole fact that I'd pass out in classes sometimes without warning had something to do with my ADD even if I was on medication at the time. Lately I've been exhausted no matter how much sleep I get and it's just been getting worse over the years. Then today after forgetting to bring a second dose of my ritalin with me and not taking it I collapsed in the middle of a test and took on the features of a drunk. The professor helped me out of the class while I babbled incoherently unable to say what I wanted to. I couldn't walk straight my head kept sinking down as well as the rest of my body. My dad was pissed beyond all reason that he had to take the hour drive down to the tech school to pick me up while I continued to babble until I lost consciousness in the truck for god knows how long. Here I was thinking I could handle this. I figured I could take care of this no matter what it was.


I went to the hospital last night to make sure there was nothing physically wrong with me and everything came back normal. I want to get tested for a sleeping disorder but sleep labs are incredibly expensive. I mean sure I thought narcolepsy might be a possiblity, but I never thought about it seriously. Everything went mostly back to normal once I got home and got some ritalin in me. Still I'm a little weak even now I'm nodding a bit. Why the fuck does this shit have to happen to me? ><



Alright bring on the flames about this being a DP-ish thread.. It might just be enough to wake my ass up..

Sounds like the big adios to me... or as my Puerto Rican hermano's would say, "siesta de dirt".

Dirtnap.