Tena Cious
Trying to decide what I have and how to tackle it... Since testing has NOT cleared my doubts regarding AF I am trying t compare symptoms.
My worst symptom and the one giving me since 4 years basically the whole illness is insomnia. I wanted to ask people here (especially those that have had TRUE AF for years) if they experience the following:
At night I have no drowsiness/tiredness, no gradually drifting to sleep. Just lie there tossing and turning for excessive periods of time and suddenly lose consciouness at some point. However, from 4 to say 6 PM (evening) it is EXTREMELY hard to stay awake if I am lying down. I get this drowsiness healthy people get at night, it is very pleasant indeed.
When I was healthy it was IMPOSSIBLE to sleep this "siesta", spanish nap at these specific hours.
The short version of this problem is, normal sleep behaviour (drowsiness) is observed during the day and NOT at night.
Saliva cortisol did not show any significant difference between evening and night 2 years ago. I was very low 24h.