Anyone with hypersomnia ?? Daytime sleepiness.
Question:
My husband just wants to sleep all the time. He finally had to take a leave of absence from work because he was falling alseep on his feet and in danger of having a major accident. On holidays he just sleeps and sleeps. Over Labor Day long week end he slept 90% of the time day and night. When He does get up he says he is sooooooooo sleepy and is soon right back in bed. He has been through one sleep study about 5 years ago and they put him on Proigil but it only made him irritable and he was still sleepy. He forced himself to go to work until this week when he finally gave up and said I can not do it any more.He falls asleep at red lights!! He is to go to a Neuroligist tomorrow and hopefully to the local sleep clinic for a sleep study. He is taking a leave of absence under the Medical leave Act but this is cutting our income down a lot. I hope he can get help soon with the holidays coming up. I am disabled with fibromyalgia and on SSD so I can not go out and get a even a part time job. From what I have read online in research the only treatment for excessive daytime sleepiness is stimulants like Ritlan, Adderall, Cyler. Every stimulant he has ever taken including caffine just makes him irritable, neverous, and still sleepy under neath. If you have this problem please write to me and let me know what has helped you. Please write to jjubbs…@aol.com
Response:
Has your husband ever tested for sleep apnea? Does he snore? One of the symptoms is excessive daytime sleepiness. And the majority of people with sleep apnea don’t even know they have it. He may benefit from the use of a CPAP machine if he has sleep apnea. Watch him sleep – if he has it, you’ll notice him stop breathing.
Response:
> Has your husband ever tested for sleep apnea? Does he snore? One of the > symptoms is excessive daytime sleepiness. And the majority of people with > sleep apnea don’t even know they have it. He may benefit from the use of > a > CPAP machine if he has sleep apnea. Watch him sleep – if he has it, > you’ll > notice him stop breathing.
5 years ago one would assume this person wasn’t diagnosed with apnea when they had a sleep study done – one would also assume that this person had a sleep study done 5 years ago because of excessive sleepiness – the fact that no apnea was discovered back then is a fair indication that in this case, apnea isn’t the cause of the excessive sleepiness ……. but either way, one would hope the new study which this person is planning on getting will show that either way guess my point is it seems like you didn’t really read the first post well enough to notice that A.. they have had a sleep study done already and B.. they’re going to get another one done
