Posted by utopizen on April 28, 2003, at 21:45:53
I just had one this morning. Even thought I didn't sleep all night like a good patient, I only got "drowsy" they said during the scan. Of course, I wanted to sleep right after it was all over! If the doc says he wants another one, next time I'm scheduling it for 11am (I think they do that) because I tend to get a rush of energy in the AM after being sleep deprived until closer to noon time.
Anyway, so the nurse said the purpose of it is to collect so much info, it wasn't such a big deal I didn't enter deep sleep, and it was up to the doctor to decide if I need a re-test.
I took it because my neuro, who I saw for the first time, gave me an exam after I complained of getting a shoulder shrug-like tic every so often (1-3x/day) for a second. She diagnosed me with myoclonic jerk (or tic?)
and said it's due to REM patterns being off, so hence ordered the EEG and referred me to the sleep disorder neuro next door.I told her I take Desoxyn (methamphetamine) but I'm still tired during the day, even with 9 1/2 hrs of sleep. I feel refereshed for an hour to an an hour and 1/2 after waking, but after that I'm tired unless I nap for 2 hours, which results in just another hour of feeling refreshed.
She said Provigil or Xyrem could help, but I guess I need a sleep study first, who knows. Seems like I may also have to do another EEG possibly, and either one takes months to get booked for. So basically, I won't get helped for this fatigue issue for quite some time, because they don't want to give you the Xyrem until they feel they know how you are normally I guess.
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