Question
The past month or two i have been getting very sleepy during the day either after work or school and i will just not knock out, wake up and still feel very sleepy. im 19 years old
Basically this is what will happen on anyday...I wake up for work at 6:30am(or 9:30am if its school) and normally i feel very sleepy and just want to go back to sleep. So after work i get home at 2:00pm i eat watch tv for a little bit, then i start getting sleepy for some reason and i decide to take a little nap for 1 or 2 hours...but instead of that i wake up at 8 or 9pm and just like that my day is over. So i go downstairs to do some homework then an hour later i start feeling sleepy again and i got back to sleep at around 11 and wake up feeling really tired at 6 am, and this has been happening to me for atleast two months, i dont know if I should go to a doctor because i dont know whats wrong with me. I dont feel sleepy at work or at school but when i get home i fall asleep for some reason, so can you please tell me if i might have some kind of disorder or if i should go to a doctor
Answer
First of all you need to go to your md to rule out the easiest with simple blood tests, anemia, thyroid trouble,or mono. If they check out then you will need to go to a sleep center to have your sleep monitored overnight to see if you have narcolepsy, which is the uncontrollable urge to fall asleep at inappropriate times. Go to sleepnet.com click on disorders narcolepsy, also go to Y.A.W.N. young americans with narcolepsy also go to narcolepsy network.com. Simply feeling sleepy all day is enough to have to get diagnosed but first get the blood tests as it could be basic anemia or thyroid trouble. feel free to email again karel
