SLEEP!

[Lulu02]

(I have chronic fatigue due to gastritis and severe reflux, I take meds and I have a bed that tilts upwards. I can sleep for 100 hours if that was actually beneficial to humans and feel as if I’ve had 1 hour of sleep. I got a sleep study and I wake up every 2 minutes but to my own knowledge I sleep the whole night.)

It’s all I think about, I feel like I’m missing so much because I can’t have any beneficial sleep. I’m so emotional all the time, I’m failing all my classes and I can’t even go to work. I barely have a life and getting out of bed everyday feels impossible, I am performing an impossible task every morning as I wake up. You’d think with all the health problems in the world, sleep problems would be as easy to fix as easy as a common cold.

I don’t want to be depressed but life’s making it fucking hard.

[Hidden]

Sleeplessness and depression is a terrible cycle they seem to feed off of each other, you’re not alone in that aspect. I’m sorry it’s hitting you so hard.. it sounds like your on the path to try and help the sleep though? With the sleep study and all that, or is it just unresolved?

[Lulu02 in reply to Hidden]

After the sleep study I got an endoscopy which showed severe reflux and gastritis which was what was signalling my brain to wake up all the time. I’m trying to help the sleep, my doctor prescribed some meds, they work but only up to a certain extent which still leaves me exhausted.

[Hidden in reply to Lulu02]

Oh I see, this does sound difficult, but it sounds like you are on the right track. Maybe with a few sleep techniques it could help.. are you able to fit in a light workout during the day? It seems to help me when I stick to it ( a 10 min jog/walk works most the time) not sure if that’s something you can do or already do though