Insomnia Support Group
Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...
I wasn't able to get an appointment for my sleep test for narcolepsy on Feb 21 and nothing available till late march. I don't even know if I want to do it anymore. I'm tired of my ridiculous medical expenses. I found out my sleep test will be $5,000! Obviously insurance pays some but my parents and I would be paying over $1000 of our own money. I really don't know if its worth 5,000$ to hear yes i have narcolepsy. The thing is narcolepsy doesn't even have a cure...practically the only thing you can do about it is medication.
I'm also having doubts about whether I really have narcolepsy. I just don't have 2 of the major symptoms: sleep paralysis and excessive day time sleepiness to the point where I could fall asleep if you were talking to me. I'm wondering if instead I just have delayed sleep phase syndrome and it got combined with extreme stress and I'm just stuck in a vicious cycle that will honestly probably take a year to fix completely. On a side note, 4 of the last 5 nights I slept pretty well for me. I'm starting t see slow hints of improvement. With me being in school I don't think sleep restriction will be a very good idea right now but if I haven't started sleeping better normally by April(when I'm done with school) and won't be doing summer semester), I believe sleep restriction will be able to do the trick.
I'm also having doubts about whether I really have narcolepsy. I just don't have 2 of the major symptoms: sleep paralysis and excessive day time sleepiness to the point where I could fall asleep if you were talking to me. I'm wondering if instead I just have delayed sleep phase syndrome and it got combined with extreme stress and I'm just stuck in a vicious cycle that will honestly probably take a year to fix completely. On a side note, 4 of the last 5 nights I slept pretty well for me. I'm starting t see slow hints of improvement. With me being in school I don't think sleep restriction will be a very good idea right now but if I haven't started sleeping better normally by April(when I'm done with school) and won't be doing summer semester), I believe sleep restriction will be able to do the trick.
You also nailed it with the stress, anxiety, and anger issues. Little inconveniences such as people at the university smoking near me(I've tried telling myself I can't control this but it honestly gets me really stressed out, having to stand shoulder to shoulder while taking public transportation back home, etc. are negatively effecting me. Additionally, I'm very disorganized:constantly losing important things, I forget things like my gym shorts or basketball, etc. I've always struggled tremendously with these things but I think those will be key as well as possible sleep restriction or other ideas for specifically sleeping.