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What Causes Excess Sleepiness And Lightheadedness?

I just sleep all of the time. I feel mentally sane. Ive been in much worse situations. However, Im sleeping 18-20 hours a day. I have no motivation to get stuff done. I have a lot of things to do since I am moving to college soon. I just want to get out of this state. I always feel lightheaded. I do have an eating disorder. A lot of professionals just blame all of my symptoms on my ED, however, dont offer any sort of solution. They always say, go to a treatment facility . Ive been in treatment three times since late 2013. I always relapse instantly. Anyways, I just want to do things like a normal person. Why is this so hard for me? Im not on any medication or anything like that, nor do I want to be. Ive had horrible horrible experiences with psychiatric medication. Im supposed to take vitamins, and they help a lot, however, I always throw up when ever I take them because I have to take 13 of them. I dont like eating large amounts of food, so I throw them up (involuntarily) every time. I havent taken them in a while.
Mon, 20 Mar 2017
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I think you would be well to see a neurologist or better yet a sleep specialist. Have you ever diagnosed with SLEEP APNEA? How about narcolepsy? Both of those disorders are treatable but require sleep studies to prove their existence. And if neither of those may be the diagnosis there is something called IDIOPATHIC HYPERSOMNIA. That is a little more challenging to treat but I have patients in my practice with that entity as well and they are treatable and get better. I wouldn't suggest you be on psychiatric medications unless you actually have a PROVEN PSYCHIATRIC diagnosis which should be ONLY after a good organic workup has been done. How about simple things like complete blood count, thyroids and adrenal glands? Pituitary imaging? Have these been done? Please click THANK YOU and write me at: www.bit.ly/drdariushsaghafi with questions or more information. You may upload results of labs or imaging studies if done as well. All the best.
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What Causes Excess Sleepiness And Lightheadedness?

I think you would be well to see a neurologist or better yet a sleep specialist. Have you ever diagnosed with SLEEP APNEA? How about narcolepsy? Both of those disorders are treatable but require sleep studies to prove their existence. And if neither of those may be the diagnosis there is something called IDIOPATHIC HYPERSOMNIA. That is a little more challenging to treat but I have patients in my practice with that entity as well and they are treatable and get better. I wouldn t suggest you be on psychiatric medications unless you actually have a PROVEN PSYCHIATRIC diagnosis which should be ONLY after a good organic workup has been done. How about simple things like complete blood count, thyroids and adrenal glands? Pituitary imaging? Have these been done? Please click THANK YOU and write me at: www.bit.ly/drdariushsaghafi with questions or more information. You may upload results of labs or imaging studies if done as well. All the best.