I have a vacation in September and I am planning on doing part of the driving on an 8 hour trip,my problem is the hypnotic effect it has on me and falling asleep,what is the best way to deal with this problem?

I have sleep apnea and I am looking into getting my CDL, will having sleep apnea keep me from getting my CDL during the DOT physical?
I am not trying to get over on anyone or out myself or others in danger by driving a big rig with sleep apnea, my condition is not to where I fall asleep everywhere, but if this is a condition that prohibits me from getting a CDL then I will address this problem before I take the training classes.

I do have a Thyroid disorder and sleep apnea and migraines and ovarian cycst. I need something safe i can try. Thanks

Sometimes I stay up too late, then you have to sleep in longer the next day to feel decent. Do you think it’s a good idea to take a sleeping pill go to bed early and then wake up early? Or are they just too dangerous and it’s better to just recorrect bad sleep habits the natural way (but somewhat harder way)? What do you do or what would you do?

Thanks

i often find myself not breathing and i can now hold my breath for well over 3 minutes. i have dreams about being under wated not breathin, then i wake up gasping my breath

anyone else suffer??

My neck is stiff. When I turn my head to the far left, I wince in pain. Now that’s usually not too bad, I would just take some Motrin and get over it in a few days. But I have a performance today in the lead role of The Giver (www.primestage.com/) and it is our last public performance, and a big one at that. I don’t have an understudy and I need help quick. Is there any quick relief method for waking up with a stiff neck that doesn’t involve super-drowsy medecation? I don’t think I have a virus, I just slept on it wrong. I am truly desperate. I already tried walking around, playing Ping Pong, getting a massage (not professionally of course), taking Tylenol, and taking a bath, and I’m still stiff on the left. HELP ME!!!
Well, thanks anyway, but I didn’t get to read your answers before my show. I still had a stiff neck, but it was not quite so bad. My show went fine. And I didn’t even have to use Motrin. That would’ve made me tired on stage. Thank you for making an effort! (The people on my last question didn’t…EVIL!!!)

hey im 15 and sometimes at night i feel like i forget to breath ( i know this is impossible but this is the only way of describing it) and im wondering if this could be sleep apnea syndrome?

.im not overweight
.athletic
.dont snore
.i have only noticed it in the past few days
.i sometimes feel tired in the day
.this past week i have been staying up till around 3 am because its half term

can anyone help me?

it is a sleep disorder that you have dreams while you are awake. Most people have it when they are about to go to sleep, some have it during the day. they are called hypnogogic hallucinations, you have to look up the definition for hypnogogic in a sleep disorder web site. it is very rare, i am on medication to help me get into the proper rem when i go to bed, but i use to have them all day long, they were mostly random things, like a bird flying by a person on the ceiling like spider man, they became more and more vivid as i got older, by the time i was 42 they were amazingly real and very detailed, i could stare at them for a period of time, one man walking along side a rural road, had bees swarming around hes head, i was at a stop sign, and he wasn’t too far from the car, i didn’t want him to think i was weird, so i watched to see how long i could see, then i moved my car up a little, looked again, still there, moved up again , i could see him in my side mirror, they were still there, i was quite surprised they were still there so i popped my head out the window, i could still see them,,, i wanted to stay and see how long it would last , but i didn’t want to make a scene. i was diagnosed be that time and was trying different meds, the intrusions got really clear and vivid and more and more unusual, one time i had started to fall asleep, i peeped open my eyes a bit, and i saw a bunch of silvery things moving around, i opened my eyes fully , and they were my fish from my fish tank! i watched them for a couple minutes, then they gradually faded. that’s how they intrusions did, they faded out. I probably hundreds if not thousands over a period of 25-30 years, i had previously been misdiagnosed as borderline schizophrenic. i would love to find any one who has these and have a diagnosis of r.e.m. intrusion.
I MEANT R.E.M. INTRUSION DISORDER
Thankyo for your responce, im curious is you got a diagnosis for your sleep disorder. i was diagnosed by a board certified forensic psyciatrist and board certified neurologist,one one of 12 in the world. i was fortunate to have found him. this disorder is very rare, but my dr said its recognised as a serious problem. my new neurologist, said i couldnt have it its too rare. that made me mad, i know what i experienced. i beleive it was rem intrusion. sounds like you have sleep paralasis ans sleep terror, i think that would be very hard to deal with, i use to have the waking into a nightmare, someone in my room. took me years to recognise what it was, but as you said, at hte time it is very real and very frightning.
best wishes to you also , sweet dreams
are you on any meds? im on lamictal(lamotragin) and low doses of klonopin. klonopin is a mes one should be on for a max of 1 year, i cant go off it, its the only med that works with lamictal, to put me in rem and keep me there. i still am bothered by insomnia, like you said , i try not to worry. keep your chin up , unless you fall asleep LOL

My son has insomnia he is a high end athlete and can go days with 2 hrs a day it gets worse and worse until he becomes sick. He has had the problem from the time he was a baby. It is so hard to understand. Does anyone have any ideas other than drugs? He wants to go to sleep but it just does not happen. He used to sleep walk a lot but hasn’t started that again thank good ness. He goes for awhile with normal sleep patterns and then it just starts right back up again. Any Ideas would be appreciated. He baseball coach is talking with his sports psychologist today about it to see if she can help. He is just embarrassed about it for some reason.