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no dopamine! my doc thinks a sleep study is a wonderful idea and was enthusiastic to sign the referral. I guess not many people do this without a push lol. she agreed that we need some more answers. especially since the insomnia is a lifetime issue (with periods of better and worse…but rarely completely normal) and that it appears to run in my family. my mom takes ambien every night with a chronic issue. my mom and dad have a california king size bed and use separate sheets. he calls her a “sea turtle” at night and refuses to share covers or sleep right next to her >_<. my grandfather was a lifetime insomniac. he was an extremely happy man when weather and CNN became 24hr channels. he usually slept around 4 hours a night in two intervals of two hours.
she told me that the getting overstimulated and wound up at the end of the day (like I describe in the initial post) is most likely a bipolar thing and not an ADHD thing. I was surprised because I always thought that bipolar symptoms were cyclical. this wound up can’t get myself to bed has been every day of my entire life no matter what cycle or non-cycle i am in. she said that there are still a few symptoms that are always present. she told me that ADHDers are more likely to wear themselves out, versus getting more wound up. ADHDers often still stay up too late and have weird sleep schedules, but more procrastination/distraction/insomnia related than being too hyper too settle down. and my perpetually grumpy lethargic mornings are the flip side of the same coin. and that children with this symptom are more likely to later develop bipolar. i didn’t think i displayed any bipolar symptoms until I was in late adolescence. i guess just not the obvious ones.
good thing my parents didn’t make more children >_<. lol.
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