Originally posted by: mcveigh
Originally posted by: djNickb
Originally posted by: mcveigh
Originally posted by: djNickb
Originally posted by: mcveigh
Originally posted by: aircooled
If it's in your limbs, it can be a vitamin B1 deficiency. I was having foot paralysis for a while before I knew about B1 and muscle paralysis...
true sleep paralysis is a sleeping disorder.
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html
<---polysomnographic technologist (AKA a sleep tech)
I'm working at the lab reight now...ask yo slepp questions!
I had a sleep study done because I suspected I might be narcoleptic and also have experienced sleep paralysis, mostly when taking naps during the day. It is terrifying you almost feel as if you are dying. When I get them I feel as though my mind is awake, I can wiggle a toe or a finger tip and my eyes try to open, sometimes I can fight through it and wake up other times I just give in and fall back asleep. Haven't had one though in a few months.
what were the results?
Well they kept me overnight and the next day for daytime nap studies, I only registered 'sleep' on one of the naps so they said based on that I did not meet the criteria for narcolepsy. I'm lookin at the printout of the results.
Their comments were:
General EEG features were atypical for this patient. Overall arousal index was midly abnormal. Alpha intrusion including K-Alpha arousals were noted in sleep stages.
The diagnosis on the printout is:
-Inadequate sleep hygeine
-Insufficient sleep syndrome
-Delayed sleep-phase syndrome, possible
-Long sleeper, possible
where'd you have your study done? they threw a lot of stuff in there.
what is your sleep schedule like? do you work odd hours?
did you actually talk to a sleep specialist? a board certified sleep doctor?
can you tell me any meds you are on? PM if you want privacy.
I had it done at the Ingham Regional Medical Center in Lansing, MI. My sleep schedule varies since I'm on call for work, have gotten called as late as 2am and as early as 5am. Not currently on any meds, though my doctor wrote me a trial prescription for Ambien to try to help with my sleep hygiene and basically said that bad sleep hygiene was the likely culprit. I was supposed to go back in a month after that but never made it back.