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Originally Posted by Rohag
Hello & Welcome, Narcoleptic4444. We share several issues.
To clarify (and feel free not to answer): Specifically, what is your sleep-related diagnosis - narcolepsy, primary insomnia, obstructive or central sleep apnea, hypersomnia/"excessive daytime sleepiness," or something else? Are you taking any medications in connection with that diagnosis?
In view of this, now is not the time to burden yourself with trying to deal with your mother.
Does HR know about your diagnoses? Now may be the time to tell them and document it.
My collection of problems did eventually destroy my career. In hindsight, it is possible (not certain) I may have remained vocationally viable longer if I had obtained even more aggressive treatment earlier and transitioned to lower stress activities.
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Well I have sleep apnea; so most likely that is the main problem for me. Then I am sleepy all day. It hasn't happened to me yet this week since coming off medication, but if I eat sugar, then look out! I am drowsy and tired. But I suspect that it could be hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia too. I can't figure it out! My Dad is a diabetic but my blood tests never show anything except that once I had low potassium or like my latest I had high cholesterol.
Sometimes I think my immune system is fighting me, then I get depressed about it because I never feel the same all the time. By same I mean that I get sicker than most people do. I sometimes think I'm a hypochondriac. I can absorb things people say and start thinking about that thing and then I start getting it.
I often feel guilty for having conversations with people where I said more than I wished I had said and gave up too much information. But I'm not going to hold back here, I need to get stuff out, and get some answers so that I can figure out the problem.
I used to work out until even working out made me feel sick. I would work out, then for days afterwards, I was completely depleted of energy.
A couple of weeks ago, I felt like I had ibs. I kept having to go and I felt so sick.
This is the thing about me: I literally get a million different things going wrong on me on a monthly basis. In September/October I had bronchitis.
Then I was depressed about that. Everytime I think things are going good, I get knocked back down by my health. This causes my employers/coworkers to think I just don't want to work. Of course I want to work. I just don't want to be sick. Who in their right mind would not want to work and earn a living? People can be so narrow minded. Just because an opinion exists, doesn't mean it exists for a good reason. They just heard the phrase somewhere and they do no thinking of their own.