Every night for a week.

I have type 2 narcolepsy and every genetic marker for high stimulant tolerance.

I’m hoping to get on the oxybates to see if they help, but my next sleep test isn’t until December. I’m wanting to try a few other meds, but they are both highly addictive and can mess up the test. My current plan is that if can’t get the oxybates after my test, to try some of the other, somewhat sketchier, stimulants and alternate them as I pick up a tolerance. I might have to either find a street dealer or go to Mexico for them though.

I’m trying to avoid opioids as a substitute for oxybates, but I have to admit that trying codine to see if it helps is getting very tempting.

Looks like I made it almost five minutes past three, so now it’s nap time.

“Sounds nice” is such a weird thing to say when someone says they’re disabled

one 3 hour block, one 6 hour block, if I'm lucky they're together if I'm not I have to dedicate 12 hours to sleep. really depends on how much i wake up on the midnight shit. if i can stay asleep (and I have managed to stay asleep for well over a year and keep my (early telecommuting) job and shit. that was an interesting nap to wake up from) and i can, it really just depends how much garlic i et

Yeah, it takes a bit to “pay back” the owed debt, but it’s a matter of a couple if weeks at most. Sleeping well and long for two-three days in a row should already have positive effects. While sleeping long only once might make you feel even more tired - or at least that’s how I feel.

dude how do you know you aren't already and catching up now

I had a badly deviated septum too. I highly recommend the septoplasy surgery. The strips just DO NOT work 😭. My nose hurt like hell and bled for two weeks (during covid too), but it’s worth it. I would also look into getting proper pillow support, if yours is not tall enough. I add some towels underneath my head to correct my neck’s shape.

I think he meant playing CBAT changed her life. I had a similar experience.

Mask you wear that inflates you slightly like a balloon when you sleep so you don't suffer from periods of not breathing during the night.

Sleep apnoea is the name of the condition it treats.

It is quite nice to treat it. It may reduce the amount of days you wake up and feel like you never slept.

Sleep apnoea also increases risk of heart attack and stroke.

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine.

It's a medical device used to prevent sleep apnea, a condition where your breathing stops during sleep, which causes the lack of oxygen (or CO2 build-up? I can't remember which) to trigger you to wake up, disrupting your sleep. This leads to sleep deprivation, even when you may have thought that you managed to get a full night's sleep.

The machine treats the condition by continuously pushing down air down your airways, which makes the breathing interruptions impossible, leading to less sleep interruptions.

Over time, the condition may lead to complications that are more serious than mere sleep deprivation, such as heart disease.

One of the symptoms people near you may notice is snoring. Another is constantly being tired, sometimes to the point of for example falling asleep while driving.

It's a condition that should be treated quite seriously. If the symptoms line up particularly well for you, then a sleep study might be a good idea.

The treatment isn't exactly fun, but I can tell you from personal experience that it will change your life. Being treated actually gave me the energy to take care of the problem of overweight that I had, which was the root cause behind the sleep apnea. I have been symptom-free for many years now.

Seroquel did that for me, best sleep I've had in my life lol

My only source is real-life observation, though I'm sure some time researching online would be illuminating.

But, yeah. It's worth a try. Try going completely without caffeine for at least a month, see if your sleep improves. Fair warning, though: it won't be easy. Caffeine withdrawals are not fun. Lots of feelings of lethargy and headaches along the way. But after the first week or so, that goes away, and then you can live happily without caffeine dependency. You can expect to feel like shit for the first week or so -- but that's normal, just part of the drug withdrawals, and you need to be off it for a while after that to truly experience what being caffeine-free feels like.

Personally, I gave up caffeine entirely* years and years ago, and I've felt much better since.

*Not absolutely caffeine free in all circumstances, though. If I absolutely need to stay awake -- such as when driving late at night -- I will occasionally drink one caffeinated drink to achieve that. But for me, that only happens once every few years or so. As long as it's only one occasional drink, the addiction doesn't really have time to take hold and it won't cause long-term problems.