Waking up wondering if someone's been in the house
Has anyone ever had the feeling of someone being in their house or violating them when they were sleeping and then you wonder if it really happened or not. The cops they say no one's been in the house your neighbors say you're crazy? I don't know what to think but it seems everyday at 3:00 a.m. I start to hear noises outside like someone trying to get in I fall asleep how stupid of me and then I wake up and I have this feeling that someone has done something I wake up with Mark's on me or I'm sore and there's spots on the sheets, things are missing, someone has eaten your food, someone's taking a shower in my shower, etc etc. Could this be real or am I having a narcoleptic issue? I tried to catch them on my phone like recording the background camera that records when your screen is off but I can't seem to because it seems like the screen goes black but you can hear noises in the background. It sounds like someone is in my house but you can see them so no one will lose me. Does anyone else have similar issues or ever? I don't know what to think I won't be calling the cops because they'll probably lock me up and say I'm crazy cuz not many people know about narcolepsy.
Okay so I'm sitting here on a stool doing dishes and I don't know what's going on but I thought I was dozing off but really I was sleepy or something because he was here doing what he normally does to me and when I woke up it was too late I know I'm hurting again because the first thing I usually do is go to the bathroom and that's when I know what he's done. Somebody had mentioned a center or something that helps people that are elderly or something can you help me out and remind me of the name of the place because I need to get some support. The cops around here won't do anything about this. It's affecting my hips my spine.
I tried this area doesn't offer much at all. It's very depressing because no matter what I do to keep these drug addicts out of my house they break in every night and they're giving me drugs of some sort and it makes me feel really bad when I wake up sick throwing up with bloodshed eyes feeling very weak and sick and making my narcolepsy worse because I'm more tired and fatigue the normal. All I get is that I'm crazy that I need help that nobody's breaking in but when I wake up and the screws are on the floor or they're put in at an angle or the padlocks are broken open and I know it's not me but it still makes you feel bad. My poor cat I took care of her room and I locked off the room because that's the room they're getting in and then they come in my part of the house and she's upset because of it. I just don't know what else to do. The cops they're no help because if you have narcolepsy people think you're always wrong or you're lying or your mental I'm so sick of this world with this crap about narcolepsy when they're not educated. I'm waiting on elderly Care they're supposed to maybe help me I just got so much application work to fill out for them and it's very hard for me to do that. It takes you at least a couple months and I don't know if I can make it that long with all the drugs they keep putting in me the other night I swear it must have been fentanyl or something. I never smoked that drug before and boy I tell you it made me feel really sick. I woke up my eyes were going different ways and my pupils were so small. Last time I went to the hospital they said oh nothing was in my system so It made me feel like a fool. When they send the cops they send young boys that are young enough to be my grandsons so what's the sense they don't believe you because it's narcolepsy that you have. I hate this narcolepsy I had H1N1 when I was younger and I've done studies and they say it came from that and I do remember when I was young they thought I had ADHD and I used to go to the bathroom and sleep on the toilet because I was so tired all the time. I believe it stems longer than what we know. Hi, I am a community admin here at Narcolepsy.sleep-disorders.net. First I want to thank you for sharing your experience.
As mentioned earlier, the best help we can provide is to share resources that may help.
1. Local Rape Crisis Center (https://www.fcasv.org/find-your-local-center) - this link will help you find the center nearest to you. As their speciality relates to rape support and resources, they will be be aligned to offering proper action steps, protocol, and advocacy that may need.
2. Office for the Aging - if you type that term + your county and/or town into a search engine like Google - this can help you with finding resources that can help you gain better coverage for more affordable narcolepsy treatments and also explore new housing options.
Ultimately, I want you to get the help you need! Some of what you're describing seems like it may be beyond the scope of what we can offer. We can only offer insights about the narcolepsy condition. Please consider using the resources shared above!
I've never had hallucinations and I video myself all the time so I don't really sleepwalk I get up to go to the bathroom and yes I do get up to snack I had a doctor tell me that is part of the narcolepsy. It helps me sleep. He told me narcolepsy people do tend to eat when they get up. You get up to go to the bathroom when they get up to eat. Now I do talk and I don't know what I'm saying sometimes or I'm just mumbling maybe not making much sense or I just don't understand what I'm saying the cameras not picking up much but mumble. I talk a lot when I wake up haha. Well I live alone so. I talked to my cat also. Sometimes I'll go outside in the mid hours and I'll go check the mail I'll feed my cats outside and I'll go for a walk with him. I cook chicken late at night and give it to them. That's when I do most of my cooking. A lot of times when I eat though at fall face first in my food because I get so tired LOL I'm like a baby you feed me I fall asleep haha
I got a camera the neighbor gave me one so we'll see what happens. The cat keeps staring at something that isn't there that kind of Spooks me. I kind of picked up on some weird things that came across the camera last night that kind of freaked out me too. There was another image it looked like someone holding a long handled something or another with a hook on it which was really bizarre and I said somebody had to have played a trick to try to scare me. I didn't see anything in person all I saw was emotion that came through when I was in the shower and then when I got out I saw this. My cat hasn't been eaten in about 3 days or more and she's been crying a lot so I was wondering what the heck was going on because she's pregnant. I thought maybe it was that. Last night kept staring at the window like it was something outside and she was crying. You know cats see things you don't see. This I don't understand. This is before I even laid down to go to sleep. I've become a night owl again. It was strange noises I can't explain it then I saw this in my tablet was even weirder pictures I can't explain that either. I haven't told anybody yet because they think I'm a kook around here. They said unless I produce a picture of someone in my house they're not going to believe me. I've never been one to be imaginative or make up a lie cuz I'm straight to the point. I've always been a very honest person so this is out of character for me. This whole narcolepsy thing is because I think I had H1N1 when I was six they said I passed away there was a minister in the room when I woke up because I had encephalitis and my brain swelled up. I remember going to the bathrooms and going to sleep on the toilet because at least it's too tired for School and said I had ADHD with ADD. They doped me up on Ritalin and I always thought I was in another world that I'd wake up someday. I had trouble functioning because I was just too tired. I was in special classes for everything reading in math and I couldn't focus. I wonder why they put me on so much medicine really they probably should have put me on some kind of medicine to keep me awake. I'm supposed to be on something now but I'm struggling between health insurance and with Medicare and their co-pays is expensive for the prescription Plus insurance is don't want to pay for medications they want to fight you on everything and deny most medications. I can't even get my acid reflux medicine or restless leg medicine because they deny it. It's so frustrating and I've been trying to switch between insurances to get something that can help me along with something that has a good dental eye and over the counter but it's getting bad these days. I don't have a good Medicaid because I make too much they say I don't understand that. My health is slipping because of this reason. It's hard to find good doctors. I get drains going to all these different specialists and too many appointments. I just can't stay awake long enough too much at all. I have to get on something to help me because I'm running out of strength. I'm just so tired all the time. I had a doctor once he had narcolepsy but he was judgmental and he said that I was extremely handicapped. I needed to be on Modafinil at all times. I used to fall but now I just fall asleep all the time. I have trouble with getting that filled.
Thank you for your support. My landlord said there's nobody there that I'm seeing soon but I clearly see some understanding there. I don't know about y'all but I see someone standing there. He has a gray shirt on with a blue stripe am I wrong. The calendar stands about 6 ft above the floor so he must be about six foot tall. I know when he comes in the whole house smells like pee so he must be a drinker. There's pee on the toilet and all over the bathroom Plus he pees and I'm not bucket I don't understand that. I guess last night he took a ch
I wish your landlord was more supportive. I hope you get this figured out soon or that you find a way to move. You must be very stressed out. - Lori (Team Member)
I'm not in any kind of medicine for it and I don't take sleep medicines. I don't really need sleep medicines because I can fall asleep at no time. I've never known that I hallucinated. I don't sleep well I record myself quite often. I talk in my sleep and when I wake up I talk. Usually when I wake up and do things I remember. Yes I have moved things around. I don't pee in the shower that's for sure. And I always pick up the shower curtain and put it on a hook afterwards but it's always back down. My cat's been acting funny lately like very needy last night she started screaming and woke me up I ran to see what was going on and there was nothing going on she just started asking scared. I don't know if it's somebody else's getting in the house or she sensing something coming from me. I have alarms on the doors and I sleep right through them. They're very loud too. Not much wakes me up. The sense of someone leaving is what wakes me up. I get up and I'm dizzy and lightheaded and I can't walk right kind of bouncing off a walls my pupils are little and something doesn't seem right. I'm sick to my stomach. Last night my neighbor said he heard something in the house at the time that I was sleeping I said from now on been on the wall or holler to me. He said he's going to do that. I woke up with bruises all up and down my arms and on my chest I have no idea where they came from.
