Re: Your Experience with Sleeping Patterns
Paddy, that's pretty much me exactly, including the part where I keep getting accused of deliberately staying up all night.
Melatonin is somewhat helpful, but the problem is that my cycle is shorter than normal, not longer, so I need more help staying awake than going to sleep. As soon as people acknowledge that non24 can go the opposite direction and make it legal to prescribe modafinil for non24, I'll let everyone know.
But, in the US, doing anything medical for non24 is a horrible hassle. The only medication approved for non24 is really expensive (as low-incidence conditions tend to get), medicaid doesn't like paying for it, a sleep study is required and sleep studies exist to sell CPAPs, and to get to that point you have to have a doctor who hears a blind person complaining about sleep problems and thinks "Oh, yeah! I heard about Hetlioz! Think we should try that?", rather than "probably some dumb kid staying up all night on snapchat&quo
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But I just found out that, apparently, Modafinil is approved for OSA (obstructive sleep apnea), which you more or less are guaranteed to get diagnosed with if you do a sleep study. Last I had heard, Modafinil was only approved for narcolepsy and airline pilots. (Also, they added workshift sleep disorder to the conditions for which Modafinil can be prescribed.)
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