It's 3:20am, and my body thought now would be a great time to wake up and get my day started after passing out drunk only two hours ago. Ive snored like a freight train my whole life. GF thinks I'm dying nearly every night due to the God awful noises that come from my mouth and the random complete silences. Did a sleep study a few years back, and they said I'm totally fine. Makes no sense. In shape, for the record. I also suffer from night terrors and exploding head syndrome. Night terrors have had a consistent theme of apocalyptic scenarios involving AT-ATs, AT-STs, plane crashes, and sharks for years.
I also have to sleep with a fan on high to drown out my own snoring. A recent development I find amusing is that snoring is making its way into my dreams. Like I'll just be standing in a grocery store looking at bacon or something but uncontrollably snoring out loud. People give me bad looks. It's very embarrassing.
I used to get up in a panic almost every night. Bed soaked with sweat, body literally dripping like I'd just stepped out of the shower. Hasn't happened at all this year because: I now wake up every night within +/- 5 minutes of 11:30, which is when my heart attack occurred in January of this year. Before, after my experience during 9-11, I'd wake up every night, go into the kitchen and eat. Like everything I could find. Gained about 100 pounds in 5-6 months. Dr said I'd lost something and couldn't find it, so my subconscious was attempting to fill it with food.
I was in a similar spot as you. I'd just go to another sleep doctor and request the cpap. I'm a quiet sleeper now and before you could hear my from outside the house I'm pretty sure.
Some clarification for you guys. Most of you just have terrible nightmares, but not night/sleep terrors. You dont remember sleep terrors and almost all the shit is hitting the fan while you are still sleeping. If you ever come to and find yourself standing on top of your bed, trying to climb out the window, rambling about nonsense, or just yelling for no reason, you probably had a night terror. It happens mostly to kids, but you can still get them as adults, it happens to me like once a month maybe. Ive never had them while sleeping with a girlfriend though. Which makes me wonder if my mind knows that I cant be an asshole with someone else in the bed with me.
I once stayed up for like 48 hours straight. Had a really late night at work, got back home at midnight, got in bed by around 1. Laid in bed for a few hours unable to get anywhere close to asleep, just got up and did some stuff around the house until I had to go back into work a few hours later, stayed up till 11 the next night. Still took me a while to go to sleep, and somehow my body only allowed me to sleep in until like 8 the next day.
I'm pretty confident i have sleep apnea but truly dont think i could ever fall sleep with something on my face. I generally sleep in bursts of :45 to 2:00 and never feel even slightly rested. My life has been completely taken over by crippling exhaustion, I don't even have the energy to get out of bed a lot of days. No idea what to do. But it's not like i can breathe for shit when i'm awake, so i dont know.
I mean, while small both of those things are worn on the face. I would prefer some kind of surgical fix. I've worn glasses for 21 years and still notice/feel them on my face every second of every day. It's a hypersensitivity thing. I'd never be able to sleep with something on my face or head or in my nose.
Have my in-home sleep study tonight and follow up appointment next Tuesday. If the study shows I have apnea will I get my machine at the doctors office at the follow up or is it something that's mailed to you later?
for me, I had to go to the DME (durable medical equipment) provider place and they gave me my machine and walked me through set up and tear down, use, etc.
Melatonin if you're having trouble staying asleep. Going to sleep- zquil is one of the better ones I've tried. It's basically just benadryl.
2nd midnite for waking up in the middle of the night. Finally went to the doctor...on week 2 of a 3 week lunesta cycle. It's been magical. I haven't woken up once at 2 or 3 am.
for the last two years i have pretty much been living a 16 hour day. sleep for 4, stay awake for 12, repeat. it would be neat if i could sleep longer or stay awake longer but i struggle to do both.
First time seeing my sleep specialist in two years. Caught up and he orders a sleep study as well as a nap study. Sleep study is to be done followed by a next day, all-day nap study. Have to be off any prescription for 3 weeks prior to. Cognitive behavioralist, psychiatrist and sleep specialist conversed. They're considering paradoxical insomnia which I don't buy into. This blows some big asshole.
So for the second time in the last few months, last night I manged to force myself awake at the onset of a bout of sleep paralysis. Only last night when it started, that dark "figure" was in the bed and actually had a hold of me as I was trying to force myself to wake up. Talk about fucking you up and making it hard to fall asleep again. My dog jumping up and standing over me in the bed and staring at something in the room intently did not help matters.
I'd have to consume quite a lot of narcotics to make that happen. I don't even average 5 naps a month.
Therapist thinks that my sleep paralysis and night terrors I've had my whole life may be part of the cause of my insomnia. Basically I don't sleep because subconsciously I know that is when that stuff happens so I just stay up
I keep hearing radio commercials about some procedure called "baloon sinuplasty" that can open up your airways and make it so you no longer have to wear a c-pap Anybody ever heard of or had this done?
So several times last night I would be lying in bed either "completely" asleep or near asleep and I would get this feeling that I was floating. Woke up each time shortly after it started. Anyone else ever have that happen?
I had this done in 2015. Backstory: I was driving home from work at 5:30 on a normal afternoon and fell asleep at the wheel. Crashed into a Toyota Tacoma in front of me. Luckily i was only going about 15MPH in rush hour traffic, so no injuries. I did an overnight sleep study where they found no signs of sleep apnea or anything else. I remained at the facility through the following day trying to take naps at certain intervals. Even though I did nothing but lay in the bed and read/watch tv all day, I managed to enter a deep sleep each time. My doctor was hesitant to diagnose me with narcolepsy due to all of the negative ramifications that come along with it. Instead he prescribed me Nuvigil, which helped me to stop falling asleep at my desk, in meetings, at the wheel and more. However, if I don't take it then I'm fucked for that day.
Results come this Thursday. Didn't realize bring diagnosed with narcolepsy carries ramifications. I was instructed to sign a waiver before I left stating I understand that I displayed symptoms of someone who falls asleep involuntarily.
Sounds right after googling that. I was able to wake myself up from it, and I had what seems like dozens of dreams. Had me all confused waking up because some were so lifelike. Last time I eat almonds before I go to bed!
I was lucid dreaming last night that i was drunk driving and wrecked into a house. I never drink and drive anymore but for some reason i always dream about getting pulled over for it and wake up in absolute panic. last night i knew i was dreaming and was able to just go with the dream. I have that feeling every now and then. its a lot better when im dreaming about something more fun but either way it's a pretty awesome sensation to feel somewhat in control of my dreams.
Sometimes I have nightmares that I force myself to wake up from. But if I go back to sleep pretty quick I just pick back up where I left off.
Zzzquil no longer even fazes me. I got a natural sleep med that is really just a ton of Tyrptophan. It worked for one night and hasn't worked since. I'm gonna give Valarian Root a shot (but you should only take it for one month) and if that doesn't work maybe talk to an herbalist. Trying to avoid a prescription med but I may have no choice.
Try recording a few UVA basketball games this upcoming season and have them at the ready when you are struggling to sleep.
Feel like I'm a step below the night terrors stage. It's pretty common that I'll be dreaming, and in that dream I'll be lying flat on my back, unable to move. Don't think I've ever woken up from it though. I've always associated it with feelings of frustration, because it's also common for me to dream that I'm trying to run, but my legs are like jelly, or I'm trying to speak and nothing comes out.