Posted by zeugma on July 14, 2004, at 10:41:45
In reply to Re: Sleep Apnea-NO-ZEUGMA, posted by crazychickuk on July 14, 2004, at 10:03:21
> thanks i think thats what i got.. does the voices as u r drifting of happen also? i heared people see the devil and stuff i just feels as if someone is there watching me, staring at me.. BUT wat i dont understand is i wake up with a gasp? i find it hard to wake up, i am completely paralized and its so worse when i am tired and i nap in the day, now its starting at night.. .. its worse when i am ill, i actually hear bangs and creaks..
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> can u describe what happens to you?I would sometimes hear someone opening the window in my apt. and break in... I would try to move to stop them or escape but I'd be completely paralyzed.... this was AWFUL and would happen almost every night. Sometimes I would get this 'rushing sensation' in my head and confused noises, I would be screaming until I woke up (but in the days when I had a gf she said she heard nothing). Once I actually thought I had an epileptic attack in my sleep, and I told myself I would call an ambulance when the seizure stopped; then I woke up, out of breath but motionless and in the same position I had gone to sleep in (I had imagined I was writhing on the floor).
Lately it's happened a lot less, especially since I upped the dosage of nortriptyline (a TCA) and started taking 15 mg buspar at night. Also i think taking Provigil (a medication for narcolepsy) has helped. The last time it happened, I saw something crawling on the ceiling, but I didn't get the auditory hallucinations or painful feelings in my body, and it was more like the normal images you might see when you drift off to sleep. hope this helps
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