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Sleep Disorder similar to “Sleep Paralysis” (LONG QUESTION) Urgent need of help.?
Question : Sleep Disorder similar to “Sleep Paralysis” (LONG QUESTION) Urgent need of help.?
Can someone PLEASE help me, I’m in urgent need of advice! Please don’t recommend seeing a doctor, they’re expensive, I don’t want to go for unnecessary tests, etc – A doctor is my last resort.
I’ve read into “Sleep Apnea” and the symptoms are similar, but it’s not the same thing.
Symptoms such as:
*Waking with an unrefreshed feeling after sleep, having problems with memory and concentration, feeling tired, and experiencing personality changes.
*Morning or night headaches.
*Sweating and chest pain while sleeping.
*Nighttime choking or gasping spells.
I do not snore in my sleep (which is a number one sign of sleep apnea), I don’t sleep on my back which could cause me to choke/gasp for breath.
The symptoms I DO experience ARE:
*Shaking/sweating until I wake up (Clothes are usually soaked at this point)
*Extreme nightmares every night
*Feeling paralyzed, unable to speak but I am awake. I can feel my eyes roll back and I’m fighting to wake from this but struggle. I can feel i’m breathing properly so I know I’m not lacking oxygen. I can feel my muscles spasaming. After a few minutes or seconds I finally break out of this and gasp for breath and feel exhausted from fighting the feeling.
Most of the time I feel as if i’m “falling” when I go through the “paralysis”. If I don’t try fight the feeling, it grows worse and worse until I start panicking because it’s so scary then I HAVE to fight it in the end.
I’m not sure if i’ve experienced this as a child before. I am on medication for depression, bi polar disorder and mild schizophrenia. (None of the medication side effects list any of the symptoms I experience)
I don’t know if there are sleeping disorders in our family history.
Please, do not answer with childish comments related to drugs.
list of sleep disorders
Best answer:
Answer by Ava Morelli
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#3 written by Andre 1 year ago
Regarding the sleep paralisis: You can learn to get out of it by learning to control your breathing. You have to consciously breathe differently so your body realizes you are awake and breaks the sleep paralysis. Experiment with different breathing patterns, like breathing more deeply, or faster, or whatever.
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I have to agree w/ the first poster! However you did mention things I shall address, it is childish of you to say no Dr.’s when clearly you need to be seeing someone with your diseases. Secondly you need a complete sleep study done before they can diagnose you and thirdly, the anti psychotic medications are heavy heavy sedatives that do cause weird strange dreams. Which is concisely why you need your Dr. If you heed that advice then you are being extremely childish in dealing w/ serious health issues and cause yourself great suffering in the mean time. A lot of medications that you are taken have the absolute worst side effects, just take a look at seroquel, it’s an anti psychotic that has so many side effects like tar-dive dyskensia and many problems that can become permanent. You need the Dr. or at least call your pharmacist to discuss the medications you are on then go to the Dr.