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The new med didn’t help. I’ve been up 5 days straight now and feel dizzy, shaking, heart pounding and totally sick and nauseaus.
I have read and heard you talk about paradoxical insomnia. I do not believe this is occurring with me. I know I’m awake when I’m awake… I hear every little sound, smell any little smell, and am always ready to fight or “flight.” I hear the train every hour, and I wear earplugs… I don’t get sleepy. That’s the main problem. I am not sleepy. In fact, I feel very alert at all times. I don’t have daytime fatigue either even from sleeping my average 1 hour per day/night. The thing that does bother me are headaches and eye pain. That’s mainly it. But I’m confused and can’t seem to get unmedicated sleep that is more than 2-3 hours. I’ve had 4 at times but without any medications, I usually don’t sleep at all. I feel that maybe having been on meds for 13 years has made me lose the ability to feel sleepy and I need to find out how to feel that. I believe my “sleep drive” you speak of is far too long… I can be awake 4 or 5 days without feeling sleepy. It’s like I have an on switch that gets stuck. And even after I go many days with no sleep, when I finally do sleep, it’s only a couple of hours. I have had sleep studies. They haven’t shown anything except active mind and wakefulness the entire night that I’m there. I don’t know what to do.
My sleep window based on my average sleep times would be 1 hour. I hardly sleep at all if any. I run 7-9 miles a day when I’m not dizzy, and am busy all day long. I’m very active as I have kids.
During the one hour window I don’t feel sleepy so I end up staying awake even after trying to sleep. This leads to no sleep at all for many days.
