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[zenolalia]

The nurse today gave me a nasty look, but at least not a lecture, when I admitted I don't exercise because I'm too tired. I sleep 12-14 hours a day and gave nonstop headaches. When and where would I find the energy? To say nothing of my actual, literal fucked knee and the fact that moderate heart rate increases and parasympathetic nervous activation cause me to have panic attacks, hallucinations, flashbacks, migraines, and what may or may not be absence seizures.

The neurologists decided I have sleep apnea because in overweight. I don't snore, wake myself up, have breathing difficulties, dry mouth, breathlessness, stop breathing, gasp, have high blood pressure, have a large neck girth, have family history of apnea, or sleep on my back. But I'm fat and tired. So it's apnea.

I'm so tired of doctors.

Even with a good primary care doctor, the fact is, she's almost an hour drive away, and my specialists are so such a crap shot, and I'm just so tired.

I'm so tired and I can't ever sleep enough

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[bushwah]

um, eighteen pills a day?? a) that would fuck up my throat, and b) I would give it up in the first month. I bet this fucker is counting on it, actually -- if his clients comply with treatment, they get a chance to say "I'm doing everything you said and I'm still not getting better," but if they *don't* then they still have to buy at least one round of pill bottles and they're likely to keep real quiet about any concerns they have.

There's no cure for the doctor who won't listen. To be scrupulously fair, I'm not sure there *is* a solution to your actual issues preventing exercise -- the 12/12 sleep cycle is brutal when it comes to stuff like this, and the amount of energy you can devote to exercise is accordingly quite minimal -- but if there is, it doesn't start with erecting a bunch of fake issues in front of them.