When my logical mind steps in to again remind me that I probably haven’t developed this, my paranoid insomnia mind counters with another irrational fear, which is that I have developed a brand new sleepless brain disease that will be named after me after I have died of it and have been studied by science. However, I thankfully usually konk out after a while, instead of trudging on in this manner, going slowly insane until the big sleep anywhere between seven to eighteen months later, when an exhausted ghost version of myself would escape this tired husk of mine and then find that there is actually no resting in peace after all. Have you been so tired that you get anxiety attacks and hallucinations? I sure have, and those are two things that happen in the early stages of this deadly, horrible disease. Sporadic Fatal Insomnia is something none of us will probably ever have, but if we find ourselves struggling with insomnia, remember that it would set in as we near middle age. However, all of this is thrown out the window as soon as Wikipedia uses the words “can also develop spontaneously in patients with a non-inherited mutation variant.” What? Oh no! Very few people will ever get this brain disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia, and very few people have ever even had it. But once you read up on this specific disease, you will REALLY get this fear, even though it is definitely very irrational. I am sure that this is an irrational fear that everyone gets who has difficulty sleeping for a few days. This latter type will be featured once monthly until we run out of material, at which point, we might begin accepting the fears of our readers. I myself panicked about it as I have been getting 3-4h sleep a night for the past two months.We have a lot of fears. FFI and sFI come up way too easily on Google imo, they really shouldn't, or at least they should change the name, because it's truly hard to process something like that while you're running on sleep deprivation. Insomnia is crap and I can understand how anxiety caused by insomnia may make you think that you have the disease, but if it's just insomnia, you're fine. Furthermore, you'd be uncoordinated, you'd have problems with speech, movement, muscles twitching and no ability to regulate temperature. One of the main symptoms (even more than insomnia) is a sudden weight loss with no explanation (we're talking <10kg), you can see this on a few science papers. The reason why the word "insomnia" is in the disease is because it characterises compared to other neurodegenerative diseases, but ultimately you will have other symptoms. I need help with this Reddit because it’s killing me on the inside.Īs previously stated on here, Fatal Insomnia is a neurodegenerative disease. I only know a small portion of my family due to my grandparents having many kids and I don’t know if any relatives had any of these disease although my grandparents are still alive and one died of cancer. I have been able to get drowsy but I’ve always been awoken shortly by my heart rate racing and me now being woken up. I’ve been having this anxiety about having the disease and it’s lingering with me throughout the day. Fatal Insomnia is caused by a gene that is usually transmitted from one generation to another but even so, this condition is common and the presence of the prion alone is not enough to cause the disorder. It’s either I sleep for four hours in the day time or I manage to fall asleep for 4 to 5hours with a family member sleeping besides me. Sporadic Fatal Insomnia is a type of prion disease and it is neurodegenerative, and as yet there is no treatment for this condition. Even if I take Benadryl or melatonin vitamins, this still happens to me. Usually, I would have been able to fix it by now by just sleeping earlier but lately I’ve been unable to sleep due to every time due to my heart rate going up and me being panicking every time I try to fall asleep. Lately, I’ve had a messed up sleep schedule. I (M18) am afraid that I might have one of these diseases.
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