#hypersomnia

[amymanddy]

Every once in a while i lock in and draw my favorite characters so enjoy this sweet piece!

Bonus close-up on them

[wolfchanw]

Off my usual topic, I want to talk about idiopathic hypersomnia for a minute.

I have been tired for YEARS. I sleep and sleep and sleep and I can still fall asleep at the drop of a hat. I have followed alllll the sleep hygeine advice, regular physical activity, giving up caffeine. I went to the doctor and got my iron levels up, started using a CPAP.

I was sleeping 10 hours a night, napping two hours in the afternoon, and I was still exhausted and crabby all. the. time.

I was convinced that this was something I was doing wrong. I wasn’t cut out for motherhood, I wasn’t following the advice correctly, I needed to…I don’t know, something.

I finally asked my doctor for a referral to a sleep specialist. She talked to me at length, but it at one point she looked at my CPAP data and I saw her eyes get huge. “Is this ACCURATE?!” she asked me “You sleep a LOT!”

So. With a hypersomnia diagnosis she got me started on a stimulant medication to help me stay awake during the day. This was two weeks ago and I am MIND BLOWN. I was worried that I might feel…amped up, but I just feel like myself for the first time in years.

I don’t need a nap. I can play with my kid, I can push the swing. I can walk the dog. I CAN GO OUT TO DINNER. My well of patience is so much deeper because I’m not fighting to stay awake after 2pm.

We’re still pursuing more diagnostics, including a 24 hour sleep study to see if I have a form of narcolepsy and some more blood work. But. I feel like I’ve gotten a fresh start.

So please. If you’ve got something weird going on physically or mentally and you KNOW it’s not right, keep pushing for more diagnostics, ask for referrals, get to the bottom of it!

[yonicfemcel]

you can take the girl out of the bed but you can't take the bed out of the girl

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Tim Drake has insomnia and narcolepsy.. *I say as I have u sit u in front of a TV with a black and white moving spiral*

As someone who lowkey has hypersomnia I approve of this message- no totally not suspicious screen needed :D

[lovesick-coining]

Hypersomnia

[pt: Hypersomnia /end pt]

Hypersomnia - A chronic sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness despite getting adequate or even excessive amounts of sleep.

(No spoons for ID, sorry!)

Self indulgent coining

Can you see the vision I was goin for? The yellowish colors are supposed to represent the day and the blues represent the night and sleep/sleepiness. There are more blues to show the sleepiness taking over the day. I also had an idea of using a solar eclipse symbol to represent the daytime sleepiness.

Here is the link for the eclipse symbol I used

Tags - @radiomogai @wanderingdevotee @mad-pride

If anyone would like to be tagged in this post or future coining/flag posts please let us know <3

[toesuckler]

hypersomnia is so ass. insomniacs get a cool name and rep that makes it seem dramatic and edgy and have physical effects of their weariness. i think its actually just as terrifying to be so tired and drained all the time that you can lose access to basic memories and be totally inactive for 16 hours of the day with no idea when youll wake up next. thats actually really fucking scary. if you wrote a character with hypersomnia people would specilate if they own an evil amulet draining them of their powers.

[buried-dog]

There's nothing that irritate me quite like whenever I answer to how're doing with "Not great, could be better. I sleep for 17 hours yesterday" and they respond "Oh man, I wish I could sleep like that, I'm jealous! Haha"

No TF you don't! I literally told you this is a bad thing. What is wrong with you? You think not seeing sun for two days is fun? You think I don't have shit to do? Spoiler alert, you can't do jack shit at 2 am because nobody is up and working that late. Heck, I can't even do laundry without getting a complaint from downstairs neighbours.