I've Fallen and Can't Wake Up

3 years ago I noticed I was sleeping a lot more than usual.

My start to a narcolepsy diagnosis

My girlfriend asked me if I wás on drugs and I said no. I just felt like I needed to sleep. One day after work I fell asleep during a stop light change woke up to people honking there horns at me. That was when I went to see my doctor and she made me an appointment to see a neurologist.

The doctor there put me in a sleep study gave me a CPAP machine then told that would help. It did not.

Managing multiple conditions in addition to narcolepsy

I came down with Parkinson's now I've have 17 different pills to take within the time I fell asleep at the stop light I have had hip replacement a stroke while in the recovery room a lot more falling asleep in strange places that you don't see people sleep at and in Aug of last year I had another stroke. This stroke was not good.

My friends took me to the casino and while I was playing I fell out of the chair on my hamstring then did the same thing the next day different day. Two months in pain thank God for CBD. I'm at a lost I lay in my bed thinking about death I know I wouldn't harm myself there is so much I would like to do, besides going to doctors and sleeping all the time.

When I sleep all day, I'm up all night.

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