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Re: Howdydoo & questions

Posted by seabrooke on July 28, 2005 at 17:49:04:

In Reply to: Re: Howdydoo & questions posted by chekechu on July 28, 2005 at 14:42:21:

No, problems with hearing has nothing to do with narcolepsy or cataplexcy. Unfortunatly you have another medical condition (disability) to add onto your narcolepsy. My heart goes out to you. It must really get depressing having something else wrong with you.

The thing you said about sleeping and letting your partner know that you sometimes want to sleep in seperate beds... Well unfortunately I'm a single man and can't really relate with having to share my bed however I look at it this way. If I weren't single I think I would have a MUCH BETTER SLEEP BEHAVIOR then I do now as a single man. Why? Well because when your sharing a bed with you partner then your forced to remain in bed even if you are waking up every hour or two during the night. Because you don't want to bother your partner you don't get up and go to the fridge, turn on the tele, etc...
By forcing yourself to remain in bed allows you to obtain the self disapline it takes to have a healthy sleep behavior which is extremly important for narcoleptics. Being a single man I have nothing to worry about! I don't have to worry about waking up my partner in the middle of the night if I can't get back to sleep. Because of this I have no self disapline to remain in bed and ever night I get up at less once for sometimes an hour or three. I always get something to eat (those narcoleptic food cravings in the middle of the night!) and on comes the televison. By the time morning comes around and because of my lack of healthy sleep behavior I've lost between an hour to three hours of sleep. Being narcoleptic surviving on as little as five hours of sleep every night ain't a good thing isn't it! But thats what happens when a person is single. We fall into those unhealthy habits and routines and remain in them very easily. Having to share your bed with a partner can be a good thing in many ways HA-HA!!! But seriously it should be seen as a healthy advantage because, unlike being a single person, you are forced to take that extra effort not to get up out of bed everytime you can't get back to sleep. So see your situation as kind of a blessing in a way!!!

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