I have quite bad sleep paralysis, i have a
few episodes a week, sfter i have woken
myself up out of the attack i'm really
drowsy and find it very hard to stay awake
and end up fallen back into another
attack, the only way i can stop it is to
get up and go downstairs for a while.
Recently though i have woken up a few
times struggling for breath, it feels as
though my throat has closed or i've
swallowed something and i'm choking on it,
my heart races and it's really scary
I'm a female 26, i have chronic fatigue
syndrome, i'm not sure whether this is all
down to the cfs.It's all very frightening
Any ideas
K x
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MandMs
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Posted: 01-11-08 07:21am
For how long you are experiencing sleep
paralysis?
Have you experienced sudden awakenings to
restart breathing?
Do you usually have headaches, sore
throat, or dry mouth in the mornings after
waking up?
Are you prone to waking up in a sweat
during the night?
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mumakezto4
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 8 Location: NI
Posted: 01-11-08 14:02pm
MandMs
wrote:
For how long you are
experiencing sleep paralysis?
Have you experienced sudden awakenings to
restart breathing?
Do you usually have headaches, sore
throat, or dry mouth in the mornings after
waking up?
Are you prone to waking up in a sweat
during the night?
Hiya,
I have had the sleep paralysis on and off
for years, but the last year and half
they have got far worse with a minimum of
3 episodes a week, after waking myself up
i always automatically go straight into
another one and this happens over and over
again until i force myself up out of bed
and go for a walk
Yes recently over the last couple of
months i have woken up catching my breath,
it feels as though i have stopped
breathing or choked
I do get sore heads and headaches but i
think the are down to my chronic fatigue
syndrome, I wouldn't say my mouth was
overly dry in the mornings but it can be
quite dry during the night which i think
is normal
I don't wake up in a sweat but when i do
wake up during the night my heart beats
very very fast.
Hope this helps a bit, thanks for replying
i appreciate it
i have what sounds like a similar problem.
in my case it is averagely infrequent. say
once every three to four months
it occurs only on waking at or around
normal waking time and only if i have
rolled onto my back while asleep.
i wake unable to move and unable to
breathe in. the only way of voluntarily
breaking out of it that i have discovered
is to concentrate hard on exhaling.
this has lead me to believe that it is
related to the apnea with which i also
have been diagnosed.
i only became aware of the apnea via my
partner who noticed that i stopped
breathing whilst asleep. but the sleep
paralysis i was always acutely aware of
since it first began fifteen years ago.
because of the apnea i try not to sleep on
my back and because of the associated
fibromyalgia sleeping on my side is
uncomfortable so i have adopted a position
halfway between.
i sleep lengthways on a sofa supported by
the back and the squab with my legs in the
recovery position.
in search of a good nights sleep i have
arrived at this solution by degree over
the past five years and whilst it is far
from ideal it allows me to function
normally during the day time.
i am currently awaiting being fitted for
an MAD (a dental device which worn at
night pulls the lower jaw forward in an
attempt to keep the airway open whilst
sleeping) which will i hope make things a
whole lot easier
sorry for the lengthy response. i must
have slept well last night. ordinarily i
have trouble getting my thoughts down on
paper
MCW
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mumakezto4
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 8 Location: NI
Posted: 01-18-08 17:21pm
i know how you feel about trying to write
things down lol my mind is mush most of
the time, you said you have fm is that
conected to your apnea? the reason i'm
asking is i have me/cfs and wondered if i
possibly have fm, possibly mis diagnosed
as they are quite similar
K x
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mrcholmondlywarner
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: , EU
apnea/ fibromyalgia Posted: 01-19-08 05:46am
yes the fibro is related to the
apnea/sleep disorder in a vicious circle.
in my case it was coming on for many years
without me even realising it. then about
five years ago i suddenly stopped being
able to sleep at all.
what followed was a progressive decline.
about 18 months ago i was finally
diagnosed with apnea and since then i have
been able to improve my sleep patterns
gradually by trial and error.
i am now experimenting with light therapy
as my body clock has gotten so far out of
wack with all of this.
the fibro myalgia is a more recent
development with muscular pains at first
and culminating in a herniated disc late
last year. something i never want to
experience again.
with the sleep thing my experience has
been that whatever improvemnts i can make
are soon overtaken by the condition
changing direction. i have come to the
conclusion that my system has decided that
on balance sleep is an unheathy state due
to the stopping breathing.
i have become sensitised to perfumes and
have to monitor the air quality carefully
in my home. long distance flying became an
impossibility for me around ten years ago
because of the decline in cabin air
quality once smoking had been banned on
long haul flights.
i believe that it is all related and stems
from the onset of the apnea and
cosequently i have high hopes that once my
night time breathing is corrected/improved
i will see considerable improvements in
general health.
i have managed two nights in a row of
prolonged deep sleep and although wooly
headed already feel much better able to
concentrate and remember things.
another over long response from me but i
also get a bit hyper when i get more sleep
as if i am trying to fit in all of the
things i couldn't do before.
MCW
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bluefire
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 1
Chocking and the waking up Posted: 04-20-08 18:42pm
Hi there,
I`m from Macedonia after 24 years I was
interested is there are other people out
there that have the same scary problem
like I had.
I was diagnosed epilepsy but they are not
sure because EEG did not show anything but
symptoms where same.
How it begin, one morning i wake up with
very hard headache just before waking up i
heard or better to say seeing very loud
sound hitting my head.
I'm still not sure what it was. After that
problems started and i was Chocking every
second night for a one year. Doctors tried
with medications but nothing.
So how did I ended this?
- Replaced pillow with feathers with other
ordinary pillows (non feather)
- Excluded any kind of meet products from
my meals
- Only vegetable in meals
Try this for two months and see if it
helps, it helped me.
After year i started to eat meat
After 24 years I still sleep on non
feather pillow
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