Posted by Dinah on June 10, 2004, at 12:41:42
I went to the darn sleep doctor/neurologist today and he sounds absolutely positive that I have narcolepsy and sleep apnea. The narcolepsy because of my involuntary naps, or forgetting sleeps, which I think are purely pscyhological escape mechanisms because they only happen when I'm upset. And the apnea because my husband says I snore and because I have a tight throat, whatever that means.
I tried to explain to him that dissociation is my primary coping mechanism, and that I think the sleeps are just another variation on that theme, but he didn't buy it.
He said the fact that I hear background chatter as I fall asleep when I'm really tired is a really common symptom of narcolepsy, and did I really think that was normal? Good thing he didn't know about my uncle who has narcolepsy (I just found out). In my mother's vast array of siblings there is someone with almost every malady in the world.
So now I'm supposed to take a sleep test. My husband doesn't want me to take it. I don't really want to take it. I don't want to have narcolepsy, I don't want to sleep with an apnea machine, and even if I do have narcolepsy, I don't want to lose my forgetting sleeps.
I really want to just refuse to schedule the appointment for the sleep clinic. :(
poster:Dinah
thread:355431
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