Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone has had similar experiences with symptoms like this or anything like that.
I'm 25 years old and I've never had problems with sleep before, but relatively recently I started to wake up sleepy and groggy even though I had slept 8 hours through the night. Then I started looking into narcolepsy, and that same night had terrible insomnia. Even when I finally got drowsy, my body would jerk and I would be awake. Ever since then I haven't gotten a single night of good sleep. I either spend my time in a weird half relaxed, half awake state where I can hear everything around me and feel my body twitch (my face, finger, foot, shoulder), but time passes like I've been asleep, or in short burst of deeper sleep, usually only 2-3 hrs per night, if at all. I'm exhausted from the moment I wake up and just wish I could take a nap to fix this, but every time I try to nap, I just fall in to the same half sleep/ half awake state as I described earlier and I'm just as tired when I wake up. I don't think I've had any sleep paralysis or hallucinations (at least not visual ones) and haven't had any cataplexy episodes (unless the twitching counts as early symptoms), but I'm really scared I'm going to start developing them. The sleepiness is just so distracting and I feel so spaced out and not like myself at all. I just want to know if anyone has had a similar experience or if you think I should try to see a sleep doctor.
I appreciate any response!