Does this sound sleep related?

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Does this sound sleep related?

Posted by Perplexed on November 16, 2002 at 17:48:59:
Hi,
I've been suffering with an irritating health problem for over a year now. I'm 37 and was in reasonably good health beforehand, although at the time I started experiencing symptoms I was going through some big changes in work and personal life (and drinking a bit too much I should add).
It started out as feeling lightheaded during periods of the day, a couple of hours usually. It gradually got worse over 2 or 3 months (I had quit the drinking by then, and had settled my work/personal issues and have been more than happy with the results). So I went to doctors who did the full round of blood tests (3 times over), heart, and everything is normal. I have periods of a few days where I will feel better (less lightheaded), but it always comes back, usually a couple of hours one day, more the next. At it's worse I will be doing something like taking a walk, and all the sudden I get dizzy (doctor's say not dizzy-lightheaded, whatever!), and my legs get weak and shaky to the point I feel like they'll fold out from under me.
I don't particularly feel over-tired during the day, but will lie down for awhile because it's the only thing that relieves the lightheaded feeling. I don't have trouble getting out of bed, I fall asleep fairly quickly in bed - less than half an hour, snore a bit on my back when I'm falling alseep, not twitchy at night, wake up more in the summer but now in the fall maybe twice a night - fall asleep again in a few minutes, no headaches, no achy muscles.
I am going to a sleep clinic but I'm waiting for a bed to do a study, still a few months away at this point. The sleep doc says it doesn't sound typical??, but my family doc won't check anything else until the sleep study is done.
I don't take any meds, take vitamins daily, go to the gym - as active as I can be in the circumstances. Yet still I have trouble often just going shopping, taking a walk, going out in a social setting, going to work (luckily only 2 days a week, work at home rest of the time) - very uncomfortable to the point where it feels almost like what I would think a panic attack feels like, but I have read up on that and doesn't seem to be the same problem.
Anyways, long story short, it feels like this 'whatever' will never get better. I feel dizzy (sorry doc - lightheaded) all the time, yet my symptoms don't seem to fit in any of the sleep disorder categories I've investigated.
Does anybody out there have similar symptoms, or know/heard anybody who has? There's no family history of it that I'm aware of, and I have had no medical problems in the past.
Thanks for listening/reading....

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Re: Does this sound sleep related? wundrwoman24 20:32 12/04/02 (0)

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