this doesn't make sense - Sleep Disorders Message Board

tiredpoet · 01-24-2008, 12:49 PM

and yet it's how i feel:

first, let me tell you i NEVER feel energized or really alert, not for the last 4 years or so.

However, i notice that if I take a sleep medication or just happen to have a night where I get to sleep a good portion of the night, I feel absolutely terrible the next day. Upon waking my head is so heavy it feels like I'm still half asleep and my body feels like it was hit by a truck. I am groggy all day, have more trouble concentrating and remembering things, have the "dropsies," aching muscles, you name it.

If I don't sleep at all, or if I remember being awake much longer than I was asleep or waking up repeatedly all night, I actually feel BETTER the next day. Not good by any stretch. I still feel like crap, quite bluntly, but I'm less groggy. I feel like my sleep might be so bad that I'm actually worse off when I sleep than when I don't.

Does this make any sense at all?

bethsheba · 01-24-2008, 03:19 PM

I don't know if it "makes sense" or not, but I have a similar reaction when I'm woken from a deep sleep in the afternoon. Have never been able to take cat naps for this reason alone as I must plan on a 2-4 hour nap. I would think it has something to do with stages 3 and 4 of the sleep cycle but I have never bothered to investigate it further. I just make sure the phones are unplugged when I nap...

I think you'd learn more from a sleep study.

Bethsheba

troygo1 · 01-24-2008, 03:29 PM

ok i understand how you feel but you have sleep apnea and it sounds like you need to be on a cpap machine. i too use to feel the same way you do and now i have only a memory of what that used to feel like. find a sleep clinic near you and try the sleep study you may find out like i did that your sleep was interrupted constantly by lack of air and that is why you wake up feeling worse then when you went to bed. good luck

bethsheba · 01-30-2008, 08:10 PM

yes, troy, I agree about feeling that way with sleep apnea. I also had periodic limb movements which I believe may have contributed to similar symptoms. I suspect many different sleep disorders may create similar circumstances.

Bethsheba