The 26-year-old said her fatigue increased in high school and she’d fall asleep in class, sometimes even having to leave to take a nap Idiopathic hypersomnia affects up to 50 in every 1 million people A 26-year-old US woman who felt tired all the time and found herself dozing off at school and in dance classes growing up has been diagnosed with a rare chronic sleeping disorder. she was diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia, which is a rare chronic sleep disorder characterized by excessive sleepiness with no clear clues. “I have to prepare just to have a shower as the [exhaustion] never dissipates,” she explained. “I’ll sleep 10, 12, sometimes even 14 hours and still wake up feeling like I pulled an all-nighter, showing symptoms as a child, noting that her mother recalls having to put her down for a nap more often than not. She was always more tired than her friends and family, which affected her daily life, and soon, her confidence It wasn’t just like having the occasional late night. It was a constant, bone-deep exhaustion that often blurred the edge of my vision. I’d sit down in theatre class, excited to do my favorite lesson and suddenly my memory would blur The feeling of sudden exhaustion became a tell-tale sign that I was about to lose consciousness The results showed her body never entered a deep state of sleep that’s needed for proper rest. She was diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia. Symptoms include dizziness or lightheadedness when standing, headaches, brief stints of sleep paralysis, and brain fog.
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