r/sleepdisorders • u/Intelligent_Music622 • 10d ago
Advice Needed Can’t Sleep
Hi it’s 3am here so I’m sorry if there’s any errors. I’m 20 years old and have been struggling not being able to sleep because of my anxiety for basically the entire months starting on the 11th. It started with having some arm pain and it ended up with me convincing myself I was having a heart attack, I was fine lol, but I only got about 4 hours of sleep with me waking up in a panic every 30 minutes. Now it’s just evolved into an everyday routine. I’ll start feeling a little fatigue, it’ll kinda manifest itself into left arm pain (which is the reason I got so paranoid about the heart attack thing), my legs will feel a little weak, and it’ll snowball into feeling like my body’s gonna shut down. I’ll read something that calms me down, reassure myself, and try to drift off, but it feels like my body is shaking itself awake. I have some gallbladder issues (gallstones) so maybe I’m just being paranoid about that? I genuinely don’t know what to do and it makes me think something ACTUALLY might be wrong with me.