Sleep Study Consultation

So the Sleep Center has moved buildings since I did my original study 6 years ago and I was surprised to see this as the room we did the consultation in today. All I kept thinking was I felt like I was in a hotel room and hired this doctor off the Internet and this is where we met. So basically, I wasn't paying the best attention to what he was saying because I kept envisioning how our phone conversation would have started that lead us up to meeting for a sleep consultation at a hotel. . .Thank you for that, ADHD.

Anyway, my daughter came with since she was home sick from school today and she got to hear about how crazy I am, but not the normal crazy, that normal crazy people are. I don't follow the "usual patterns" of different sleep disorders so they are not sure how to diagnose me. They don't even think my original diagnosis of Idiopathic Hypersomnia is accurate anymore. I can never remember the name of it and always have to look it up. I just remember the idio part because I always think they are calling me an idiot for some reason. Like I'm a chronic idiot, which is fine, but let's be blunt and not come up with fancy terms for it.

They asked me to call Brian for some of the questions, but he wasn't much help either. After years of "acting out dreams", which is more appropriate than calling it sleep walking (I found out today), you just don't remember the details. Apparently, talking, moving around, turning on lights, and even getting out of bed is not sleep walking. I guess when you sleep walk, you actually leave the room and you don't remember. Any who, they want to know what time of night it happens. Of course, Brian and I concur that it happens in the middle of the night, which is weird to the doctors and should either be right when I fall asleep or right before I wake up in the morning. Once again, not typical.

Then he proceeds to tell me that during my last test I didn't fall asleep for my first 2 naps, which is typical, but I fell asleep immediately for the next 2 naps, which generally is true with people with Narcolepsy. Again though, I didn't fall asleep for the first 2 so that threw that theory out the window. He also had to explain to me that Narcolepsy is not what you see in the movies when I told him there was no way I was narcoleptic. Apparently, you don't just fall asleep when you are talking to someone. Thank you, Hollywood for that.

So basically, I go in next Wed for my sleep test and stay all day Thursday for naps. So look out facebook, I am going to definitely be bored that day and will probably be posting every 5 minutes, except of course when I am "forced" to take naps. Forced to lay around in bed, reading, messing around on the computer, watching TV and then taking naps all day AND NO CLEANING the house. This is going to be the best vacation EVER and insurance will cover it!