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My sleep has gone strange

Started 30 August 2024 · 19 replies · 205 hearts · read 3.2k times

TavishIsle of Skye, UK · 30 August 2024
1.9 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: My sleep has gone strange

Writing this partly to ask and partly because writing it down usually tells me what I think.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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KateBelfast, NI
#1

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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OllieCardiff, UK
#2

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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StefanZurich, CH
#3

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#4

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#5

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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OndineLausanne, CH
#6

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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SindriReykjavík, IS
#7

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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NellaUtrecht, NL
#8

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#9

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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BlueStroud, UK
#10

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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NualaArmagh, NI
#11

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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BramleyBath, UK
#12

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#13

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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Obi OEnugu, NG
#14

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#15

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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KateBelfast, NI
#16

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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OllieCardiff, UK
#17

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#18

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#19

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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