eclipse27
08-28-2006, 02:28 PM
Does anyone have xtreme trouble waking up. I sleep and sleep and sleep and its almost impossible for me to get up everyday. I feel extremley tired, headaches, dizzyness, ect. Feels lik eim dying almost. Does anyone else have this?
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Thelma-Louise
08-28-2006, 07:11 PM
Only when I double up on my pain meds. Are you taking any kind of meds? Are you waking up frequently during the night or sleep all the way through? Do you know if you have any sleep disturbances during the night (wake up and don't know why?) or even snoring or sleep apnea?
eclipse27
08-28-2006, 09:32 PM
Im not on meds. I do have major sleeping problems. I'm usually up all night. I do wake up alot doing the nite aswell. But i don't snore. :(
Thelma-Louise
08-29-2006, 07:50 PM
Do you cat nap during the day or know why you are waking up so often so often during the night? If not, you should probably go to a sleep study to see if you have sleep apnea. They require a prescription from your dr and are usually done in hospitals as an overnight stay and generally covered by med ins. Sleep apnea or chronic interrupted sleep prohibits the body from getting the REM sleep it needs to restore itself which explains the chronic fatigue or tiredness and inability to wake in the morning. There are generally 2 types of sleep apnea - upstructive and non-obstructive and once they determine if you have it and which one they treat it accordingly with either a snore guard or dental splint, a airway machine used while you sleep or surgery to remove the uvula. My sister went recently and it turned out the meds she was taking for some chest pain lowered her heart rate and blood pressure too much and once she switched meds it stopped. And her dr kept telling her it wasn't due to the med - the study definitley helped determine what was going on. The only real inconvenience is that you have to spend one night in a strange bed with wires attached to you but she brought her own pillow and pjs, slippers, robe, etc., watched tv and was given breakfast the next morning. You need from 6 to 8 hrs undisturbed or sound sleep for your body to feel rested. If you not napping during the day which would also account for your inability to sleep straight through the night - you might try catching a few winks during the day if you can to see if you start feeling better - if you do then you kind of know this is a sleep problem and then go for the study to see what is happening at night that you are not aware of. Of course you can also try many of the sleep inducing OTC products to see if that helps as well.
eclipse27
08-30-2006, 10:09 AM
I think i should get that done. I don't snore, i don't take cat naps during the day. I notice i usually toss and turn and wake up during the night alot. Could it be possible that a sleeping disorder could cause my body to not be able to fight an infection of. Because my symptoms seem also alil more severe then just a sleeping disorder. The horrible headaches/eye pressure and dizzyness are scaring me. Also have a sore throat....and my left ear always is poping. It really feels like a giant sinus infection. COuld it be that my body is just so warn down i cant rid it off?
Rawspice
08-30-2006, 02:47 PM
I also feel terrible when I wake up. I get jaw pain, achy all over and very tired, it's a feeling of like I haven't slept at all even though I have just had about 8 or 9 hours. I don't know if I feel like this because of my TMJ or maybe it's something else like CFS. I doubt it's a sleep disorder though.
Thelma-Louise
08-31-2006, 01:36 AM
You know its really hard to say for certain what the real problem is b/c these symptoms are shared or common with so many different ailments. We are all kind of forced to explore all the possiblities...today my sister was told by a cardiologist that her heart skipping a beat and pausing, fluttering can also be caused by sleep apnea and then she told him she is also having ear problems lately as well and he said she could have an inner ear problem causing the sleep apnea causing the heart problem. Point is you just don't know. I do know however that before I developed tmj symptoms (when I was "healthy") lack of sleep would make me dizzy, unable to focus my eyes and obviously very lethargic. But it didn't cause jaw pain. And chronic lack of sleep can lower your immune system making you more likely to be unable to fight off colds or infections. Have you been to a neurologist or ENT to check your inner ear? I can't seem to sleep b/c of my tmj - the pain causes me to wake frequently but I guess it could be different for everyone, maybe you are waking often b/c your jaw is bothering you?. Or maybe you are both sleeping for long periods but not feeling rested b/c you are not getting sufficient REM sleep - that's the period where you dream or in the deepest level of sleep. I guess CFS could do it as well - I also had an episode of that when I was younger...but I was going through several stressful years of trying to do too much in a given day - and once I was finally able to slow down, that's when the CFS started. I managed to pull out of that by starting a vigorous exercise program and changed my eating habits. It took a year before that finally let up. Have you tried exercise to see if that would help? And if you do exercise right now they say you shouldn't do it before retiring at night b/c it does affect your ability to sleep.
Rawspice
09-01-2006, 11:49 AM
I do have ringing in one ear all the time, it's usually always really loud! The ringing is in my left ear which is also my painful tmj side. I don't get any ringing in my right ear. I did see an ENT and they said everything was ok with my ears. It seems pretty clear to me that my tinnitus is caused by TMJ, yet when I go for check-ups about my tmj they tell me that tmj does not cause ringing in the ears. I mean can you believe it?:eek: I don't know why I even bother going because I seem to know more about TMJ then these so called TMJ experts at the hospital.:rolleyes: It's more like I'm teaching them so how are they supposed to help me. I took my TMJ book with me to the hospital to prove that it can cause symptoms such as tinnitus.
A few years ago I also had surgery on my nose because I had trouble breathing, I always sounded like I had a cold. Anyway after I had the surgery it did improve my breathing at night so I could sleep. However I got this hard bump up my left nostril ever since I had the operation. I was wondering if that could be making my TMJ pain worse because it say's in my book that a nasal obstruction can cause a TMJ trigger point! They have told me that I can have an operation to get rid of the bump, I don't know if should go ahead with it or not.
And yes my TMJ pain does sometimes wake me up at night, or sometimes I can't get to sleep because of the tinnitus. Sometimes I can only sleep for like 4 hours and other times I have slept for like 12 hours.:eek: I do some exercise and it can make the pain go a little while doing it, but then the pain comes back not long after. I used to do a lot of exercise before I was ill, but that was like 6 years ago or maybe longer actually.
Thanks Thelma-Louise for the advice you have given, I haven't posted on here for ages but I have noticed how helpful you are to people on here. You are like the TMJ doctor on this message board.;)
A few years ago I also had surgery on my nose because I had trouble breathing, I always sounded like I had a cold. Anyway after I had the surgery it did improve my breathing at night so I could sleep. However I got this hard bump up my left nostril ever since I had the operation. I was wondering if that could be making my TMJ pain worse because it say's in my book that a nasal obstruction can cause a TMJ trigger point! They have told me that I can have an operation to get rid of the bump, I don't know if should go ahead with it or not.
And yes my TMJ pain does sometimes wake me up at night, or sometimes I can't get to sleep because of the tinnitus. Sometimes I can only sleep for like 4 hours and other times I have slept for like 12 hours.:eek: I do some exercise and it can make the pain go a little while doing it, but then the pain comes back not long after. I used to do a lot of exercise before I was ill, but that was like 6 years ago or maybe longer actually.
Thanks Thelma-Louise for the advice you have given, I haven't posted on here for ages but I have noticed how helpful you are to people on here. You are like the TMJ doctor on this message board.;)