Biatta: Take it with a grain of salt. Heck, when you eat a whole lot of food, they call it a food coma because you get all tired and sleepy. That's because your stomach is working over time to digest the food, which in turn is creating a ton of Adenosine.

In your case, do you get all sleepy after a very large meal or do you get all bloated and the food doesn't seem to digest? Because if you get bloated and the food doesn't go anywhere and you probably get a lot of stomach acid, then yea, you're probably suffering from it.

Slayer: Ever heard the story where the doctor says the guy will never walk again? Then, the guy stands up? Still think they're right all the time?

If I was going to wait for a diagnosis, I was going to be dead. By the time I was done studying sleep, I could have graduated with a PHD.

It was really simple. I took the bottle the health guy gave me. A simple 500mg and viola, I felt great. I was so low on it, the energy only lasted for about an hour the first time. Gradually, it started lasting longer and longer.

Like I said, it's a vicious cycle. You're too stressed, but you keep on going, then you go too far, then all of a sudden, you have insomnia. You go to the doctor's office and he prescribes medication but doesn't tell you much about de-stressing. So, you take the medication that makes you feel good. The hole gets deeper and deeper. When you finally realize that something is seriously wrong, you don't know what to do because the Doctor's job is not to help you be healthy. His job is to find a disease. No disease, No diagnosis, No help.

I am willing to bet most people on here are suffering from some form of stress. They just don't know it because they're in the hole so deep, they don't believe it any more. Remember, my hole was like 10yrs in the making and took 5yrs or so to climb out to see the day light.

Yes Bruticus I have have severe scoliosis(curvature of the spine) and they've tried getting me to have surgery but I said no. They don't get how I can do what I can do with my back. I've had goals like to dunk a basketball(sometimes I'm close). Oddly enough, sleep problems have got more in the way with goals like that than back problems.

I'm just asking you about your experience to see if it could be part of my problem or just the process in general of how you knew what to do. I'm try to put the pieces together in my situation. Major sleep problems started happening around 15. It started in the summer: it was hot and I simply didn't feel comfortable. Prior to that year my body was obviously able to overcome and adapt. Starting at 15 I lost that ability to adapt. I started having to wear ear plugs, have a soundless room, get more stressed out, take all of these precautionary messures, etc.

Overall I suspect I have a hormonal problem, diet or underlying medical disorder that hasn't been found out. I had some nutrition tests a week or so ago and as in the past, I have REALLY low cholesterol(both the good and bad) and I had high blood pressure(131/86). In the past i've had really low diastolic blood pressure but high systolic. After my exam I'll have a little time, I'm hopefully going to find out if I have something wrong and also treat stress and anxiety.

Slayer: It was a very long process and like I said, Doctors were useless, so I figured it out all by myself. It all started with Adenosine and ATP.

You ready to read a really long story? I'll try to keep it brief.

Ok, so if you read previously, you knew I thought I was going to die and then got off my butt to go study. Then, I found out that caffeine keeps you up. Then, I looked at the opposite and found adenosine keeps you sleeping.

I went to the health experts who told me to take a sugar called D-Ribose. D-Ribose is the building block for ATP. Sure enough, it worked well.

But then, I just didn't feel like even if I slept a little, I was recovering. I explained to the Doctors to no avail. I found out that I also needed L-Glutamin to recover. Add that to the list. First time I slept for 2hrs and woke up feeling like I slept for a week. (This also took care of my main anxiety issue too.)

Then, I found that yes, I had high blood pressure too. I asked the health guy again and he gave me L-Histidine. Ok, blood pressure back to normal.

One night I was fully energized and I knew I was in trouble because I had been up over 12hrs already. I knew something wasn't right. I stayed up the whole night. Next morning, talked to health guy again. Was given 5HTP and was knocked out cold.

Somewhere along the line, my mouth was always so dry at night. Went back and told the health guy. He gave me a bottle of Magnesium Complex. At first, 1 pill did nothing but 2 pills and I felt great and slept really well.

Then, I started to forget things. I even experienced dementia. Turns out, I had to throw a little Acetly-l-carnitine + choline in to the mix. Fixed that problem after a week.

Oh boy I also remembered no motivation to do anything and the hardest time to think. I could not concentrate at all and my muscles would feel really tight. L-tyrosine fixed that.

At the peak, I was taking a lot of pills just to feel normal and sleep really well. My brother said, "Is it safe?" I said, "I don't know, it's working so I don't care." As time went on, I gradually lowered the frequency and at times would stop taking things completely.

Here is the list:
D-Ribose
L-Histidine
L-Glutamin
L-Tyrosine
Acetly-L-Carnitine
5HTP
Choline/Inositol
Vitamin B Complex
Magnesium
Zinc
Copper
Calcium
Fish oil
(No, a multi-vitamin was not enough. It had to be in a pure form)

I also had issues with high cholesterol but I think that was mainly due to eating too much protein. I went on a 3-month all raw leafy vegetable diet and the cholesterol issue worked it self out.

At first, I would be able to get off of it for at least 3 days at a time. Then it became weeks and that became months. At the five year or so mark, I would only have to continue to take whatever it was that I thought I needed. It was on an as-needed basis and it was only due to stress from work. However, I know now to slow down and GO TO SLEEP to recover. Caffeine to stay up like in college was not the answer.

The only thing I regret is taking serequel or however you spell it. It was prescribed to me by the idiotic Doctor. I was told that it causes diabetes but I was so desperate, I didn't care. I ended up with mild diabetes. It sucks but it is now something I have to deal with.

Ive gone three years without natural sleep. I spent two months trying to get it back, it was essentially two months without sleep. I then developed tinnitus. I needed meds at that point. I believe it was an SSRI that started it all. I dislike SSRI', tried to get off venlafaxine. I got really sick.

When I try to sleep naturally. Rights as I slip into sleep state I get a rush, jolt of what feels like is adrenalin. At that point I am wide awake.
Its killing me more- tinnitus more meds. When I tell a DR. they look at me funny without and desire to help. Yat on the forums I have read many people have this syndrome. I can hypothesize that it is a form of sleep apnea. I had a sleep study, it was total bunk. They had me lay on my side full of of meds. There are facial exercises that you can do to strengthen the mouth, neck and throat area that will decrease any faulty areas that are causing Apnea.