I am sleepy all the time despite eating healthfully, sleeping well for 7-8 hours a night, rarely drinking caffeine, and exercising. So I went to a sleep lab and they hooked a million wires up to me and stuck a couple of little tubes up my nose (only about 1/4 inch) and told me to go to sleep. The results of the study are that I am a good sleeper. I'm almost as proud of myself as when I was 3 and my mom said I was a good eater. Or when I was 13 months and my dad said I was a good pooper. Who knew? I slept 92% of the time I was in the bed, my oxygen was good, "virtually no apneas", no leg movements at all, totally average amount of REM sleep, and a greater than average amount of stage 4 sleep, whatever that is.
So now I'm in the process of being diagnosed with excessive sleepiness. Yes, it's a disorder. It sounds like the usual treatment is to drink more coffee. Yes, I'll have a prescription to drink coffee. I'll be at risk of hurting people, literally, if I skip coffee. I wonder what disease I have to get to be prescribed cigarettes?
At first I told the doctor I wasn't getting tubes up my nose again just to be told to drink more coffee. But then I figured it would be really nice to know for sure why I'm sleepy. As it's worsened, I've worried that it's depression or boredom that I'm just not aware of, or that I'm just so immature that I'm bored (and put to sleep) by everything. It will be nice to know for sure and finally stop wondering.
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