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Even if I do get 7-8 hours, they are not quality sleep hours. I go into REM pretty quickly and never achieve deeper or refreshing sleep. Even during the sleep study, I slept 8 hours, then took naps when they told me to, and didn’t feel perky and great., and started dreaming only minutes into the nap (from what I read, NOT normal)
So they prescribed nuvigil to keep me wakeful during the day and said “get more sleep”. Good luck with that as even if I “go to bed” earlier, I don’t fall right to sleep. I have to ltierally wear myself out or do something really boring or watch TV, then I feel like sleeping and by that time there’s only 5 or 6 hours left to sleep.
So the person checking into my ADHD said because the sleep doc prescribed or put me on nuvigil, she’d not do anything for the ADHD – “see how the other works out”. Well after 7 days they took me off of the nuvigil because of headaches, feeling light-headed and the fact after 3 days, on the 4th, I was yawning and falling asleep again during the day and at work and not able to stay awake for classes.
However, “the damage has been done” and the folks who saw me for ADHD now won’t do anything more until another appointment with another specialist – this time a “PHD” (so who was the other person, some hack or quack??? Why were they not good enough? They WERE going to give me something, but said because the sleep doc trumped them, they weren’t going to – I said the sleep doc took me OFF the nuvigil, but still now they won’t make a move….. I’m so PI#$@%^ and now getting depressed over the whole bloody complex mess. The nurse today said “well we want to make sure it’s not anxiety or something else” and I wanted to respond “54 years of anxiety? or “listen lady, I wasn’t feeling anxiety until YOU folks started messing up with me!”
And you never again get to talk directly to someone, you have to go through a nurse until your next appointment – which is 2 or 3 months down the road and until then – NOTHING is being done at all by anyone.
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