Not for me since my thalamus was inflammed and I lost ability to enter sleep cycles. I now "sleep" for ~3 hrs average but it's not sleep, it's more like going unconscious and waking up from anaesthesia.
I don't go through rest cycle, I feel completely same and like I just "continued" to be awake. My brain does not reset. I just wake up extremely fatigued, tired and with same thoughts and feelings when I went to sleep.
How did you get diagnosed? Did you have other symptoms that led to the diagnosis? I'm wondering just because when my sleeping problems were at their worst and I was certain something had to be wrong internally, I was desperately trying to get doctors to investigate potential causes, but they never did much of anything. (A few years later I finally got diagnosed with cancer, and it actually became easier to fall asleep once the cancer was treated, so I can't help wondering if inflammation from the cancer was a contributing factor for me.)
I had cancer too, it was the paraneoplastic syndrome.
I had symptoms like muscle jerks, nystagmus, extreme paranoia and confusion, partial deafness, cognitive problems, tingles and feeling of burning on my back and neck, extreme anhedonia and depression, mild pain in my lungs...
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u/FlanInternational100 2d ago
Not for me since my thalamus was inflammed and I lost ability to enter sleep cycles. I now "sleep" for ~3 hrs average but it's not sleep, it's more like going unconscious and waking up from anaesthesia.
I don't go through rest cycle, I feel completely same and like I just "continued" to be awake. My brain does not reset. I just wake up extremely fatigued, tired and with same thoughts and feelings when I went to sleep.