bebe1005
14-11-11, 20:11
Hi Everyone…I haven’t posted on here in a long time. I hope everyone is doing well.
For the past week I have woken up at various times in the middle of the night. Once at 1:30 a.m. (had a horrible panic attack this time. I felt like I was literally suffocating.) I woke up at 4:30am twice. 3:30-3:45 2 or 3 times. It’s like my brain has an alarm set to wake me up at this time every single night. I think “I’ll just relax and try not to think too much and I’ll sleep through the night”, but it never works. When I wake up I usually feel really hot, nervous and it’s hard to catch my breath. Eventually I fall asleep again, but it takes me awhile. I’m starting to get extremely frustrated because I’m tired all day now and I’m afraid to go to sleep.
I don’t know if this is worsening the issue, but I got a call from my Dr. last Wednesday telling me that I had an abnormal pap and that I need a colposcopy, which I can’t go in for until 11/22 :( This waking up issue actually started before I got this call though!
I’m not sure if this is stress related or if I have sleep apnea or something. I asked my boyfriend who sleeps next to me if I stop breathing or snore and he said no. I’m just so scared of waking up & feeling this way and it happens every night…has this happened to any of you before?
For the past week I have woken up at various times in the middle of the night. Once at 1:30 a.m. (had a horrible panic attack this time. I felt like I was literally suffocating.) I woke up at 4:30am twice. 3:30-3:45 2 or 3 times. It’s like my brain has an alarm set to wake me up at this time every single night. I think “I’ll just relax and try not to think too much and I’ll sleep through the night”, but it never works. When I wake up I usually feel really hot, nervous and it’s hard to catch my breath. Eventually I fall asleep again, but it takes me awhile. I’m starting to get extremely frustrated because I’m tired all day now and I’m afraid to go to sleep.
I don’t know if this is worsening the issue, but I got a call from my Dr. last Wednesday telling me that I had an abnormal pap and that I need a colposcopy, which I can’t go in for until 11/22 :( This waking up issue actually started before I got this call though!
I’m not sure if this is stress related or if I have sleep apnea or something. I asked my boyfriend who sleeps next to me if I stop breathing or snore and he said no. I’m just so scared of waking up & feeling this way and it happens every night…has this happened to any of you before?