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To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream:
ay, there's the rub...
~from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
I used to love to sleep, put my head on my pillow each night, drift off to dreamland and enjoy a restful slumber. I loved sleeping in on the weekends. I had no problems going to sleep and getting a good 8 hours in every night. Insomnia was a rare occurrence. Dreams were my refuge from the world...
Not any more.
Chronic illness changed my life in so many ways, and one surprise was the development of not just one, but multiple sleep disorders! Now I have problems falling asleep, staying asleep and being a light sleeper. I have gone from needing 8 hours of sleep to 9 to 10 hours a night. I was finally sent for a sleep stu
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I treat the sleep apnea by using a CPAP machine. The CPAP fixed the sleep apnea, but the other sleep problems persisted. When I was diagnosed with dysautonomia and started treating it with a beta blocker in 2007, my pounding heart stopped waking me up in the middle of the night. But I still had problems so I was prescribed a medication to help me get more deep sleep.
My current sleep doctor
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So guess what I did Thursday?
You'll find the answer in my next post...
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