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[Info] Sleep Clinics in Ireland/Sleep disorders

  • 30-07-2006 2:31pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    Hopefully this thread and the other tips for getting good sleep can be made into stickies once the forum gets in order.

    Anyway here is a link for sleep clinics in Ireland.

    http://www.isat.ie/sleep_clinics.htm

    They can be found in:

    -Dublin:
    -Beaumount, Dublin 9
    -Bons Secours, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
    -Mater Private, Dublin 7
    -Mater Public, Dublin 7
    -St James's Hospital, Dublin 8
    -Our Lady's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12
    -St Vincent's Private Hospital, Dublin 4
    -St Vincent's Public Hospital, Dublin 4
    -Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24

    -Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda

    -Cavan General Hospital

    -Cork University Hospital

    -Letterkenny General Hospital

    -Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar

    -Merlin Park Hospital, Galway

    -Naas General Hospital


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Expanding on the thread about insomnia, here are some sleep disorders.
    Maybe you have some. :)


    Sleep Apnea

    How long can you hold your breath? People with sleep apnea may stop breathing in their sleep for up to 2 minutes or more! (They usually breathe just fine when they are awake.) This happens over and over again at night, making them sleep poorly and feel very tired in the daytime.

    People with sleep apnea usually snore loudly.... Do you know anyone who snores?

    Sleep apnea can affect the heart, so it is a serious medical condition. It is usually treated with a special breathing mask worn during sleep.

    Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS)

    People with this disorder can’t help staying up later and later each night, and waking up later and later each morning. They aren’t just being "night owls" by choice; something is wrong with their internal body clocks, making it impossible for them to stay in sync with the rest of the world. This problem is most common among adolescents and young adults.

    The treatment usually consists of actually making the problem worse so it can finally get better.

    (The opposite problem, getting sleepier earlier and earlier in the day is called Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome. It is most common among senior citizens.)

    Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)

    Do your legs ever feel uncomfortable at night? Some people describe the feelings as "itchy" or "restless" or "like creepy-crawlies under my skin." People with RLS often get up and walk around at bedtime, because their legs "just won’t settle down" and it helps to move them. RLS is usually treated with medication.

    Insomnia

    How long does it take you to fall asleep? People with insomnia consistently take longer than 30 minutes to drift off to sleep. Insomnia is one of the most common sleep disorders, and it is sometimes hard to cure. Practicing good sleep hygiene may help. Sometimes the advice of a doctor or counselor is needed.

    Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep (PLMS)

    Imagine that you fell asleep one night while someone was holding your shin. Let’s say after you fell asleep, that the person shook your leg every 20 seconds, for almost half the night! How do you think you would sleep?

    A sleep disorder called Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep (PLMS) is just like that, except that the person’s own muscles are doing the shaking, rather than someone else doing it. It is usually treated with medication.

    Narcolepsy

    The symptoms of this rare disorder include extreme drowsiness, feeling weak at emotional times, and feeling paralyzed on the borders of sleep. Animals can have narcolepsy, too. Much of the research on narcolepsy has been done on dogs. And the "fainting goats" that are sometimes displayed at State Fairs actually have narcolepsy. In humans, narcolepsy is controlled with medication.

    REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RSBD)

    Imagine what it would be like to act out your dreams, every night, while you were still sleeping! It would probably get you into some trouble, wouldn’t it? People who have RSBD do act out their dreams, and to make matters worse, their dreams tend to be more violent and aggressive than other peoples’ dreams. So they often hurt themselves, or those around them. Luckily, RSBD is quite rare.

    There are many other kinds of sleep disorders, too: sleepwalking, night terrors, Jet Lag, Kleine-Levin Syndrome, bedwetting, head banging, night-time eating disorders, etc.

    If you have a question about sleep disorders, or think you might know someone who has one, talk to your family doctor or a sleep specialist at an accredited sleep lab. Peachypants put up some links.

    You can use this thread to discuss any of these in detail. Solutions, causes etc.
    It also helps, simply to be aware of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭ST*


    Sleep Apnea

    How long can you hold your breath? People with sleep apnea may stop breathing in their sleep for up to 2 minutes or more! (They usually breathe just fine when they are awake.) This happens over and over again at night, making them sleep poorly and feel very tired in the daytime.
    People with sleep apnea usually snore loudly.... Do you know anyone who snores?
    This one is pretty scary when you first start seeing someone with the condition. I used to lie awake at night, and anytime he held his breath, I'd shove him sharply till he started breathing again. This tormented me for months until I looked it up. Oh! the things we do for love. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    A relation have mine has sleep apnea and he has to use a device to help him out. Very scary indeed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    The Irish Sleep Apnoea Trust have a very helpful website here

    Some good info on the disorder.
    SOME TIPS IN DEALING WITH SUSPECTED SLEEP APNOEA

    The following symptoms indicate that you may be suffering from a respiratory sleep disorder such as Sleep Apnoea:

    1. Loud snoring
    2. Cessation of breathing during sleep, followed by an abrupt awakening
    3. Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
    4. Drowsy driving
    5. Irritability
    6. Difficulty with concentration or repetitive tasks
    7. Difficulty with staying awake while watching television or reading
    8. Difficulty/impairment of short term memory
    9. Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
    10. Neck/collar size of 17 inches plus

    These symptoms are merely indicators and are not meant as a definitive diagnosis.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 nonametoday


    Note to mods, I believe this is relevant to the sleep forum not the medical ones. It is something I think is very worthwhile to be included here. Judge it for yourself.


    I have sleep apoena, read this story, its quite scary!

    I used to feel the heat all the time. I am a big lad. Only 5' 8", 18 stone, 18 1/2 inch neck and very tired all the time. If there was a prize for snoring, I would win it. In a b&b in Limerick, the people in the room next door, asked for a move. I used to think it was funny that I would be on top of the bed, bollock naked, under an open window, while the wife was in the bed in pj's, under two duvets, complaining of the cold.
    I used to open the curtains and allow the cold air wash over me to cool me down at night. I used to wake in the middle of the night covered in sweat, breathing like I had just run the 100 meters.

    I used to wake up in the morning with a throat that felt like I had eaten a cactus. Sometimes my throat would be swollen and it felt like I had something stuck in it. I could be in bed for ten hours and wake up wrecked. I would need a nap about half ten and if in a meeting, would doze off.

    Continuous diabetes tests came back negative. This is a regular cause of tiredness. Then one day, the wife was with me at the doctor when she mentioned my snoring. The doctor just clicked. He referred me to the sleep clinic at Tallaght Hospital. They put a probe on my finger while I slept for three nights. It was conclusive - I had sleep apoena.

    When someone goes to sleep, the throat narrows. This can cause snoring, the flesh in the throat vibrates. MY THROAT collapses completely. It is like someone is throttling me, my body tries to breath "while being throttled", the waking in the middle of the night was my oxygen level dropping to dangerously low levels, the brain raises the alarm and wakes me up. This happens hundreds of times a night. Because I go back "to sleep", I have no recollection of this. This causes the body to not reach deep REM sleep. This is the sleep where we get real rest, where we dream.


    Now I have a machine called a CPAP. This is like a pilots mask connected to a small machine that monitors my breathing. If it senses I stop, it gently pressurises air into my throat which splints open my airway and allows me to sleep.

    I had a dream last night ! Its unreal what a good nights sleep does for you until you dont have one.

    The consequences of sleep apoena are wide reaching. Untreated - you are ten times more likely to have a car crash (you can fall asleep at the wheel), the constant cycle of waking, sleeping, choking, waking, sleeping, etc etc can cause high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. If these symptoms sound familiar, get it checked.

    I drive and the question - "Do you have any conditions that may affect your driving" is relevant. I went unregged to post this as I dont want any insurance company to get any ideas that I am dangerous.....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Nam_Man


    Sleep Apnea

    Yeah ~ have that ...

    As for the CPAP machine ... Bloody expensive €148 p/month

    And medication is about ... Provigil €280 p/mth


    Expensive auld thing to have ... Hence Ive bought the partner a box of earplugs ... Price €30 for 1000:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36 TheMelodyOfRain


    Note to mods, I believe this is relevant to the sleep forum not the medical ones. It is something I think is very worthwhile to be included here. Judge it for yourself.


    I have sleep apoena, read this story, its quite scary!

    I used to feel the heat all the time. I am a big lad. Only 5' 8", 18 stone, 18 1/2 inch neck and very tired all the time. If there was a prize for snoring, I would win it. In a b&b in Limerick, the people in the room next door, asked for a move. I used to think it was funny that I would be on top of the bed, bollock naked, under an open window, while the wife was in the bed in pj's, under two duvets, complaining of the cold.
    I used to open the curtains and allow the cold air wash over me to cool me down at night. I used to wake in the middle of the night covered in sweat, breathing like I had just run the 100 meters.

    I used to wake up in the morning with a throat that felt like I had eaten a cactus. Sometimes my throat would be swollen and it felt like I had something stuck in it. I could be in bed for ten hours and wake up wrecked. I would need a nap about half ten and if in a meeting, would doze off.

    Continuous diabetes tests came back negative. This is a regular cause of tiredness. Then one day, the wife was with me at the doctor when she mentioned my snoring. The doctor just clicked. He referred me to the sleep clinic at Tallaght Hospital. They put a probe on my finger while I slept for three nights. It was conclusive - I had sleep apoena.

    When someone goes to sleep, the throat narrows. This can cause snoring, the flesh in the throat vibrates. MY THROAT collapses completely. It is like someone is throttling me, my body tries to breath "while being throttled", the waking in the middle of the night was my oxygen level dropping to dangerously low levels, the brain raises the alarm and wakes me up. This happens hundreds of times a night. Because I go back "to sleep", I have no recollection of this. This causes the body to not reach deep REM sleep. This is the sleep where we get real rest, where we dream.


    Now I have a machine called a CPAP. This is like a pilots mask connected to a small machine that monitors my breathing. If it senses I stop, it gently pressurises air into my throat which splints open my airway and allows me to sleep.

    I had a dream last night ! Its unreal what a good nights sleep does for you until you dont have one.

    The consequences of sleep apoena are wide reaching. Untreated - you are ten times more likely to have a car crash (you can fall asleep at the wheel), the constant cycle of waking, sleeping, choking, waking, sleeping, etc etc can cause high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. If these symptoms sound familiar, get it checked.

    I drive and the question - "Do you have any conditions that may affect your driving" is relevant. I went unregged to post this as I dont want any insurance company to get any ideas that I am dangerous.....


    By this stage I'm convinced I have apoena. Since about 14 (21 now) I've been completely exhausted everyday, virtually no short term memory, extremely poor concentration and of course, waking up almost every night gasping for air. I had relief in April of this year when I woke up gasping but suddenly felt my airway open up. I woke up the next morning feeling the best I had in years, my thoughts were clear, I could remember what I did this day last week and I could manage conversations without forgetting the topic. It continued up until June but now I'm back in the same situation.
    I've booked an appointment with my GP for Friday anyway, but I dont have health insurance so I'm hoping I'll just be able to skip straight ahead to treatment as I've heard the costs of sleep studies are astronomical.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭eamon234


    Nam_Man wrote: »
    Sleep Apnea

    Yeah ~ have that ...

    As for the CPAP machine ... Bloody expensive €148 p/month

    And medication is about ... Provigil €280 p/mth


    Expensive auld thing to have ... Hence Ive bought the partner a box of earplugs ... Price €30 for 1000:)

    Jesus that's a bit steep! Mine's only €70 a month and my apneas are pretty severe - anyone else have a problem with shall we say "over inflation" during the night? Some mornings I get up and it's like someone letting the air out of a balloon! I expect to wake up some night floating to the ceiling :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭Fletch123


    Does anyone have any info on Night Terrors/ Sleep Walking?

    I suffer from a combination of both- where I wake from the night terror, but it is superimposed on reality, meaning I sleep walk (or run!).

    I know that I suffer from it when stressed out of upset and have done since a child, but it has become so frequent now that I hate going asleep for fear of what my poor brain will torment me with next... :) Tips?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 DMO


    You can buy them in the States from as little as $220 - they will dipatch based on an Irish prescription. try www.cpap.com, although get it posted to a US address or the post & duty fees will take all the good from it.

    Masks are about 1/3 the price also


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 DMO


    Note to mods, I believe this is relevant to the sleep forum not the medical ones. It is something I think is very worthwhile to be included here. Judge it for yourself.


    I have sleep apoena, read this story, its quite scary!

    I used to feel the heat all the time. I am a big lad. Only 5' 8", 18 stone, 18 1/2 inch neck and very tired all the time. If there was a prize for snoring, I would win it. In a b&b in Limerick, the people in the room next door, asked for a move. I used to think it was funny that I would be on top of the bed, bollock naked, under an open window, while the wife was in the bed in pj's, under two duvets, complaining of the cold.
    I used to open the curtains and allow the cold air wash over me to cool me down at night. I used to wake in the middle of the night covered in sweat, breathing like I had just run the 100 meters.

    I used to wake up in the morning with a throat that felt like I had eaten a cactus. Sometimes my throat would be swollen and it felt like I had something stuck in it. I could be in bed for ten hours and wake up wrecked. I would need a nap about half ten and if in a meeting, would doze off.

    Continuous diabetes tests came back negative. This is a regular cause of tiredness. Then one day, the wife was with me at the doctor when she mentioned my snoring. The doctor just clicked. He referred me to the sleep clinic at Tallaght Hospital. They put a probe on my finger while I slept for three nights. It was conclusive - I had sleep apoena.

    When someone goes to sleep, the throat narrows. This can cause snoring, the flesh in the throat vibrates. MY THROAT collapses completely. It is like someone is throttling me, my body tries to breath "while being throttled", the waking in the middle of the night was my oxygen level dropping to dangerously low levels, the brain raises the alarm and wakes me up. This happens hundreds of times a night. Because I go back "to sleep", I have no recollection of this. This causes the body to not reach deep REM sleep. This is the sleep where we get real rest, where we dream.


    Now I have a machine called a CPAP. This is like a pilots mask connected to a small machine that monitors my breathing. If it senses I stop, it gently pressurises air into my throat which splints open my airway and allows me to sleep.

    I had a dream last night ! Its unreal what a good nights sleep does for you until you dont have one.

    The consequences of sleep apoena are wide reaching. Untreated - you are ten times more likely to have a car crash (you can fall asleep at the wheel), the constant cycle of waking, sleeping, choking, waking, sleeping, etc etc can cause high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. If these symptoms sound familiar, get it checked.

    I drive and the question - "Do you have any conditions that may affect your driving" is relevant. I went unregged to post this as I dont want any insurance company to get any ideas that I am dangerous.....
    FYI - I declared it to my car insurance company and there was no increase in the premium, however I do now need to provide a medical cert to them each year (have not tried to move company either).

    I have not yet had my driving licence renewed since diagnosis, I will likely declare here also on renewal. I have read that in the UK your licence is withdrawn until you can demonstrate that you are receiving therapy for SA.

    Now that I have gone public on the system I need to consider the consequences if I rent a car abroad without it declared on the licence....


  • Registered Users Posts: 20 johnnyvee


    I have a condition (as does my pop) that I am unable to sleep as a repetitive action is replayed over and over again in my mind proventing me from sleeping. Even though you may sometimes be very tired and want to nod off, you are suspended in this trapped state sometimes for hours at a time unable to sleep. The good news is that there is a solution to this problem ..............(Number one rule about no being able to sleep - Don't let it get to ya!) You may be tired the following day, but you will get over it.......... Anyway this is the solution to the problem. You have to remove the repetitive action from your mind so fill it with something else. Remove yourself from the bed, and watch some TV (it works for me) stay watching until you begin to nod off, return to the bed ...... bingo! The cycle has been broken and with a little luck, you will sleep. As the TV has fed me with alternative images, I don't see why not reading an exciting book wouldn't do the same thing. If anyone else has this problem, let me know how you get on.


  • Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭lynnsback


    How does one get appointments at these sleep clinics?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 stbalaji2u


    good.. you have provided good information over here. But actually i am from india. So do any of you guys have idea about where can i catch a sleep clinic in india. I need to find soon, I am suffering a lot.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    are there any sleep clinics that treat other sleep problems aside from apnea (in my case extreme sleep walking, where my body does not rest sufficiently, causing symptoms of Fibromyalgia)?

    Would treatment be covered by health insurance (I checked with VHI but haven't heard back yet)?

    Any info appreciated (I will check back with my GP, but it's good to have some insider knowledge as well).
    Cheers
    galah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 stbalaji2u


    hmm.. looks like no one knows any information about sleep clinics in india.. i need some help about that..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭fiattech


    Ialso have sleep apnia i have been using a cpap (continuous positive airway pressure ) machine for the past three years . i was diagnosed with the condition in the sleep lab at st. vincents in dublin .one other side effect that i had was sexsomnia wich i have to say i miss this is when i was asleep i would try to perform sexual acts with my wife (nothing too rude) i would be woken up by her normally with a slap in the ear to be told i was at it again .i would only find out the next morning that i was at it again when she reminded me because i would have forgotten all about it by then. this became a real problem after a while not only was i having broken sleep but now my wife was too .thankfully it has all stoped now has anyone else had sexsomnia or is it just me ?

    http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1242521/sexsomnia_interesting_facts_about_sleep.html


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Little Miss Cutie


    Hi all,
    I am looking for some advice. My OH recently visited the doctor and the doc thinks he has sleep apnea. He calmly explained what happens when he is asleep and how it impacts on his sleep and his life in general.
    The main reason he went to the doctor is because he falls asleep during the day everywhere ie in conversation, out for dinner and in work!
    Really I guess the reason I am posting is I am hoping someone who has had the same problem seen a dramatic improvement in the quality of their life.
    Thanks in advance to anyone who can share their story.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭fiattech


    Ask your OH'S doctor to refare him to a sleep clinic it's well worth it for his health alone what part of the world are you from ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Little Miss Cutie


    Thanks for the reply. The doc has referred him and we are waiting for an appointment, apparently he is on the urgent list.

    We are in dublin.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 41 caramel0


    Hi, I have Bruxia, which is also classified as a sleeping disorder. It does not matter how long I sleep (8 or 12 hours), I always wake up tired and feeling like I want to go back to sleep.
    My boyfriend has also pointed out to me that sometimes he cannot hear me breathing and I seem to have a very slow heart beat. I looked this up and found that there is a sleeping disorder called hypopnea.
    Hypopnea and bruxia are linked.
    I was wondering if anyone has this condition and would sleep clinics dealt with these disorders?


  • Registered Users Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Tail Wagger


    caramel0 wrote: »
    Hi, I have Bruxia, which is also classified as a sleeping disorder. It does not matter how long I sleep (8 or 12 hours), I always wake up tired and feeling like I want to go back to sleep.
    My boyfriend has also pointed out to me that sometimes he cannot hear me breathing and I seem to have a very slow heart beat. I looked this up and found that there is a sleeping disorder called hypopnea.
    Hypopnea and bruxia are linked.
    I was wondering if anyone has this condition and would sleep clinics dealt with these disorders?

    If you go to your GP,s/he will advise you and possibly make an appointment in a sleep clinic. your always safer to have it checked out anyway. Sure what harm will it do?


  • Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭bert n ernie


    Hi Guys, first post on here. can anyone tell me how much the sleep clinic costs approximately? Hubbie has what the doc thinks is sleep apnoea, hes referred us to the clinic in Beaumount, but before we send the letter in would love to have an idea how much cash we need on hand. dont have health insurance at the minute, and want to get it solved now rather than waiting for an insurance policy to kick in !! any info would be much appreciated


  • Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭Gerard93


    Hi Guys, first post on here. can anyone tell me how much the sleep clinic costs approximately? Hubbie has what the doc thinks is sleep apnoea, hes referred us to the clinic in Beaumount, but before we send the letter in would love to have an idea how much cash we need on hand. dont have health insurance at the minute, and want to get it solved now rather than waiting for an insurance policy to kick in !! any info would be much appreciated

    Hi bert n ernie,
    I have sleep apenia did'nt have to go to a sleep clinic, was given a monitor that I took home and wired it up to myself before I went to bed, brought it back to my hospital next morning and they downloaded the data & referred onto my consultant. As far as I can remember did'nt pay anything for this, except for the consultant's fee. I am now using a CPAP machine which I rent monthly & my health insurance covers the rental cost. Condition is serious & should be treated as well as follow up checks annually Cardiogram, Lung/Breathing functions etc. Hope this helps


  • Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭bert n ernie


    thanks for the Gerard93, will have to ask the doc about that!! sounds morecost effective alright! cheers !!:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 SandraBNG


    Does anybody experience the following?

    Apparently I do not sleep properly, I've always known I snore like crazy, it's really really loud. Added to that, I apparently tend to jerk violently in my sleep; I'll be nodding off and all of a sudden my leg will kick out, somethimes my whole body will jerk. Also, my throat clicks and when I wake up my throat is really dry. I'm a cold person but I sleep in shorts and a light tshirt as I apparently sweat in bed. Does anybody else experience these things? My boyfriend sleeps on the couch most nights as I keep him awake with my snoring/clilcking/jerking. I didn't know I experienced half of these things until he told me! :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭bert n ernie


    Sandra, thats exactly what my hubby does. his doc said it was sleep apnoea, he never remembers a thing in the morning. get to the doc for a diagnosis though !!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    Pretty sure I have sleep apnea... always waking and gasping for breath to the point i need to stand up and calm myself. Happens about 3 times a week. Off to the GP I go then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 sodergren


    Good day!

    Sorry for bumping this, but I'd really like some more information regarding these sleep clinics (preferably in the Dublin area), more specifically the financial parts of it.

    I've had sleeping problems for ~10 years or so, seen doctors many many times but they either tell me to seek therapy (because they assume I'm depressed, despite me telling them that's not it...) or prescribe sleeping pills, which may or may not work, it's a bit random. I've finally taken the time to do some research myself and found that everything about "delayed sleep-phase syndrome" matches, so thought I'd see a specialist to get it confirmed.

    I am however not wealthy I guess you could say :) So I'm just wondering, did everyone who went to a clinic get a machine to take home and had almost no additional charges? (I currently do not have an insurance.)

    Thankful for any response!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭Chicks


    I'd also like some information on these sleep clinics if anyone has any..Specifically I'd like to know if referrals there by your GP are covered by medical card, and what exactly happens when you go there.

    I think I have delayed sleep phase disorder too, I've had it for as long as I can remember. It didn't bother me so much before, but I've been unemployed for a while now and without the distraction of a job to go to, the abnormality of the whole thing is really getting to me.

    This is a self-diagnosis, because my GP is a cretin. All he's done is prescribe me different anti-depressants that are 'sedatives', but they didn't help me sleep, they just made me emotionally unstable and slightly psychotic. I consider it dangerous to prescribe anti-depressants to someone who doesn't suffer from depression, because of the giant list of side effects, many of which I seem to be prone to.

    He refuses to prescribe me sleeping pills because they're addictive. As a last resort I've taken the liberty of ordering melatonin online, as the GP won't give it to me because it's an unlicensed medicine in Ireland. Before I start taking melatonin, I'd like to be diagnosed properly by someone who knows what they're talking about. Everything I've read about it deems it harmless, but I'd like to try to fix this another way if at all possible.


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