Comment on I subsist on caffeine alone
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 6 days ago
I’m on stimulants that require not just a prescription, but approval from the manufacturer, quarterly check ins and ekgs. It’s now two in the afternoon and I’m hoping I can make it until three before I have to take my second nap. I’ve been at a friends house for a mid-morning coffee, and after the second cup taken a nap in their guest room. I know exactly what I can and can’t do at finely defined levels of sleepiness. I know what it feels like when part of my brain is asleep but I’m still waking around because I have to feed the pets before I go to bed. I’ve woken up from a nap, drank a monster, had a one hour job interview and then gone back to sleep right after. I experience levels of tiredness every day that you can’t imagine and there are no words for.
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What’s wrong with you?
If you took a sleeping pill would you be out for 3 days like Jesus?
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 6 days ago
I have type 2 narcolepsy and every genetic marker for high stimulant tolerance.
I’m hoping to get on the oxybates to see if they help, but my next sleep test isn’t until December. I’m wanting to try a few other meds, but they are both highly addictive and can mess up the test. My current plan is that if can’t get the oxybates after my test, to try some of the stimulants and alternate them as I pick up a tolerance. I might have to either find a street dealer or go to Mexico for them though.
I’m trying to avoid opioids as a substitute for oxybates, but I have to admit that trying codine to see if it helps is getting very tempting.
Looks like I made it almost five minutes past three, so now it’s nap time.