Sleeping through my alarm for the first time in twenty years

Started 20 May 2024 · 24 replies · 301 hearts · read 4k times

RunaAarhus, DK · 20 May 2024

2.2 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Sleeping through my alarm for the first time in twenty years

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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SunnivaBodø, NO

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

SinéadCork, IE

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.

GigiNaples, IT

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

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

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

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

17me too 9

NikolaiSofia, BG

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

OrrinGlasgow, UK

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

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

TychoLeiden, NL

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

PeggyRotherham, UK

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.

Ollie OPeterhead, UK

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

HollisBath, UK

#10

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

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

13me too 6

LeifTrondheim, NO

#11

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

RuthieLeicester, UK

#12

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

14me too 3

NettieBarrow, UK

#13

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.

SamPortland, OR

#14

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

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.

RillaAberdeen, UK

#15

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

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.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

#16

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

GildaTrieste, IT

#17

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

TobySwindon, UK

#18

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

MarenBremen, DE

#19

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

AshSunderland, UK

#20

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

OssianTromsø, NO

#21

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

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

TorinBelfast, NI

#22

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.

11me too 4

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

#23

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

NorahDerry, NI

#24

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

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.