RE: Subject: Chronic Sleepiness - Idiopathic Hypersomnolence

Follow-Up posted by carol fliehman (zinkwink42@aol.com) on 13:12:40 12/14/2000

Follow-Up: My question to the doctors have been, why am I so tired. I sleep 14 to 16 hrs a day. Then being tired seem to be a way of life for me. I would drive to work pulling over to take a quick nap so I could get home. Drinking tons of coffee to stay awake while at work. Then once I got home to bed I would go. My family thought I was lazy, or depressed. They would not except the fact that I was tired most of my waking hours. What lead me to the sleep doctor was falling a sleep driving and wrecking the car. I when though the sleeping testing to be told I have hypersomnolence. I am currently taking provigil 400 mg. I am now leading a more normal life.


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