Re: Sleep disorders and ADD

[Anonymous]

I’ve had this problem since my late teens. I used to drive home from university on a major highway and pull over after a half an hour, get in the back seat and sleep. I had an alarm clock to wake me up. I am sure that once I closed my eyes on the highway and narrowly averted going off the road on a curve and that’s why I started pulling over to sleep.

Even driving only 20 minutes to work in the morning in the past, I’ve felt like I needed to pull over and sleep, even though I had a seemingly restful night. I can’t keep my eyes open, I slap my face until it hurts, open the windows in the middle of winter to freeze myself, turn the radio up full blast, drink coffee, etc. Strangely enough, root beer seems to help even though there’s no caffeine in it. Maybe it’s the sugar. I don’t have low blood sugar, though, I’ve been tested for that.

I no longer drive long distances alone because I can’t guarantee that I won’t fall asleep at the wheel. I don’t want to tell my doctor because I don’t want my driving license taken away.

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