Hello everyone! My name is Desislav,35 years old,i live in Bulgaria. Before almost an year and half ago something strange happened to me. as I was driving my car I fell asleep and when I woke up the car was in oncoming traffic. I was very startled, but after 200-300 meters I fell asleep a second time. this happened April 2022. After that day I slept for 17 hours these sleep attacks became a daily occurrence. in a little more than a month, I gained about 12 kg/ from 80 kg to 92 kg/. The first doctor I visited diagnosed me with sleep apnea. I didn't leave things like that and visited another doctor, who ruled out sleep apnea because of my good saturation during sleep/ the lowest value was 93.8/ . I was burdened with a lot of personal and professional problems. I started systematically waking up 20-30 times a night. I wake up in the morning tired and very irritable. Over time, other problems appeared - under the influence of a specific emotion during a conversation, I began to slur my speech as if my tongue refused to work. At the same time, other conditions similar to cataplexy began - uncontrollable head relaxation. Under the influence of another emotion / maybe anger / I started to lose control over my legs and arms. several times I enter a state of sleep paralysis / the last time was almost 10 min, the previous times for about 10-15 sec / . I started to fall asleep while eating dinner or the sleep attack was so strong after dinner that I could not control it at all. After my work engagements decreased, the night waking disappeared, but was replaced by delirium, speaking of "I am" /relatively often/. Soon I think that it did not happen. After many visits to doctors / almost every one of them sooner or later told me "I don't know what's wrong with you" / I decided to take matters into my own hands and the first thing he did was to solve the problem I had with my stomach - I had acid reflux no matter what I was ate I got tired easily, if I ran 20-30 m, my legs would cramp and I couldn't get enough air. It turned out that the iron in my blood is very low / 7.80 with values of 11-36/ This problem was solved easily, we fixed the problem with the stomach and intestines, but everything else remained the same. I have been a firefighter for 11 years and this has been a huge problem in my line of work. At the moment I follow a certain diet and have lost about 2 kg, I don't get tired so easily and my legs don't cramp. the gastroenterologist advised me to consult a neurologist and a psychologist. The whole year 2022 in general was littered with very serious problems / infertility treatment for me, after my wife got pregnant after about a year in the 6th month we had to have an abortion, I experienced a car accident and a lot of problems with my colleagues in the last 3 years… / Hell I'm 35 and in the last 2 years I've grown a lot of white hairs on my head… The post has become very long, but still maybe I'm missing something… What's your opinion? How many of you have the same symptoms?