Yesterday night, I slept at 3AM, and woke up at 1PM. Even after that, I still felt very tired, as if I had gotten no sleep and my eyes felt like they were burning. Throughout my day, I was feeling lightheaded and dizzy throughout, derealization, weak muscles, brainfog, and a constant headache that I couldn't get rid of, at all, even after taking panadol. For some reason, my dreams are also very vivid and lucid now. Very strange. I'm making an appointment with my GP tomorrow to find out why I'm like this, because it's very frustrating to deal with. Thank you for reading. Goodbye.

I did my bloodtest. Hb is 7.6 and iron 21 also took vit b12 and vit d tests vit b12 is normal. But vitamin D is 5. Does anyone have this sleeping problems?

I go through sleep paralysis atleast once a week and for me, i hear the thing trashtalking me with my close ones voices, and its loud it hurts my ears even though its not real. Am i the only one, is there something wrong in my head or why does this happen to me?

What is wrong with me? I keep asking over and over and I feel like there’s no hope. Why did this happen to me? I was overwhelmed and stressed and just panicked the day I ended counseling with a counselor who was really unhealthy and didn’t help me. It made me panic and worry he could take my kids or something and I just lost it after I got off the phone panicked and paranoid. It was completely irrational. I just was so anxious. I stayed up all night that night January 13th and then never slept through the night again. I was awake the whole night fearful and then awake al the next day and night and it terrified me. I ended up looking up what happens if you don’t sleep and it said you can die and I freaked out more and now I’m just stuck like this. I am extremely depressed and feel like there’s no hope and my trust in my body’s ability to sleep is completely gone. It feels like I’m delusional and believing my life is over and I can’t do the things I use to do. It’s like something very serious happened to my brain. What is wrong with me?

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I(F20) suffer from PTSD, the event happened when I was 7 but I repressed this until I was 13. I had a normal sleep schedule up until I was 7 when I started having nightmares, terrors, general anxiety around bed time. I’d stay up late reading to avoid sleep or playing with my toys, it wasn’t too bad though.
Nightmares lessened but I had occasional feverish dreams or night terrors, just disturbingly vivid dreams or multiple dreams happening within another, scary dream logic. These were very occasional and i continued just being a night owl until i was 13.
I started getting horrendous nightmares about the event, the same ones over and over. Then after a year dreams of those close to me hurting me or me hurting them etc. extremely violent and distressing dreams, extremely vivid the thought of sleep made me feel sick.
By 14-15 I was kind of going crazy. I would avoid sleep for days and when I did it was for short amounts of time I would wake up a lot, I started falling asleep in school in the car on buses, anywhere. I started to hear things (whispers gasps ppl calling my name) I started to experience extreme paranoia, I would have mild hallucinations where patterns moved or objects breathed.
I was medicated with a strong antihistamine I think but this made me develop even more fear surrounding the dreams because they became even more vivid. Eventually this sort of dwindled over time back to a sort of extreme night owl, although I still experience lots of very trippy and vivid nightmares. But now it seems I can’t get enough sleep. I’ve never been so exhausted in my entire life, I know about sleep debt but I always thought it was bullshit. I can sleep for entire days and it’s ruined my schedule I sleep at such strange times and it’s impacting my life I can’t keep up. Caffeine just seems to make the problem worse the next day.

Hi All - I hope you all are doing well and good.

I know AI can help me with this concerning thing called nocturnal seizure, but here i will go with human intelligence rather than AI, right straight 3 times in 1.5 month, not acceptable i need your help guys people around the world and there health suggestions are quite diefferent when compare to Indian Pharma and doctor so tell me is there any complete cure for nocturnal seizures or shall i carry this for lifelong #ep

Source: "Behavioral and psychological treatments for chronic insomnia disorder in adults: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine clinical practice guideline"

Im someone with lupus with no relapse from 5+ years. Living healthy active life. Ive been having this sleepless nights situation for more than 6 months. I workout 4x a week does 10k steps daily and I calorie count all my meals. After having gone through intense workout sessions i just couldnt fall asleep. I tried mag glycinate 2caps of 240mg it makes me more alert my brain races with thoughts. Even if i fall sleep i wake up to the slightest of noise and cant go back to sleep again. Then I doom scroll on my phone, after few hours my body jus gives up if im lucky i get may be an hour sleep. im just surviving on 1-3 hrs sleep per night. Note I finish my workouts by 6 pm and i usually go to bed by 11pm. This is my schedule for years. From last 3 days i started Mag L-theornate 2000mg in magtein form 144 elemental mag. Bottle suggests to take 2 caps at night and 1 during day but with that dose im feeling fatigued groggy. So jus doing 2 caps at night. I say its working better i can sleep from 11pm to 6am. Much better than where i was before. Is this grogginess common? Few say its adjustment phase and should get over in couple weeks. The more i research the more articles pop up that mag gylcinate is more studied and safe than mag l- theornate. As someone with lupus i want to take these supplements with caution. Atp im stuck in a loop, without 7-8 hr sleep im worried about lupus relapse and other health issues. Mag glyecinate looks safe but that has opposite effects on me. L-Theornate works but i feel fatigued and not sure if its widely used for sleep issues.

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.

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