Posted by Reggie BoStar on August 16, 2006, at 1:01:17
For the last month I've been sleeping more and more until now I sleep for 30+ hours at a stretch, stay awake for about 10, and sleep for another 30. When I try to do anything physical at all during the waking hours, even something simple like going for a walk, I become totally exhausted. About an hour before I go to sleep again, I get really faint-headed if I stand up too fast. The feeling stays with me until I sit or lie down - it just won't quit. I don't feel hot, get the sweats, or have trouble breathing at all. Instead, I feel cold. Earlier in the month my MD said it was probably a combination of depression and anxiety.
I feel like I'm always having a migraine but without the headache - just all the other symptoms like nausea, heart arrhythmias, confusion, wicked mood swings, weird tastes, sensitive to bright light and loud sounds. Anyone who has migraines and takes triptan meds (Imitrex, Zomig, etc) for the pain knows these symptoms. They're what's left when the pain of a migraine goes away.
YES, I'm anxious. Who wouldn't be? I can't do anything at all without being completely wiped out. When I collapse and sleep for a 30 hour session, I sleep very soundly and get up only to go to the john. I don't have bad dreams or toss/turn in my sleep.
What is this? I was sick enough of life before this, figuring that I'd had enough of constantly feeling miserable. Now it's getting worse fast and I'm terrified.
What is happening to me? I have a therapist appointment on Thursday and am actually afraid of not living long enough to get there. If I can wake up tomorrow I'll call my MD but I'm afraid of being alive long enough to do that too.
I went outside to get the mail today and felt such vertigo that I almost fell flat on my face. I'm afraid to drive.
Am I dying?
poster:Reggie BoStar
thread:676969
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