Is it hypersomnia or narcolepsy?
I have had 4 sleep studies and have been diagnosed with Restless Legs, PLMD and Ideopathic Hypersomnia. Even though I didn’t have any sleep onset REMs my dr. thinks I have Narcolepsy. And because my insurance company won’t cover any drugs for Hypersomnia or even Hypersomnia itself he wants to do a MSLT and see if I do have N. so he can change my diagnosis and I can get help from the stupid ins. company. So I’m doing a sleep diary and am set for the study on July 12. I am so miserable. I know you know how I feel.. It’s just so great to find other people who understand! I’ve never actually met anyone else who has IH. I am bipolar type 2 also and juggling all these different drugs is difficult. I am on Ritalin now and it is not helping. The dr. wants me to go up on it but I am already so shaky and nervous I don’t know if I can. My husband doesn’t understand how I can be sleepy and shaky at the same time. I don’t understand it either but that’s the way it is. Anyone else out there been mis
