I tend to fall asleep in the afternoon, especially during class. I find that if I stay active during that time, I can stay awake. But I can’t exactly stay active if I’m sitting in a classroom.

I try to get 7-8 hours of sleep every night. I exercise when I can. I have also tried eating smaller meals and snacks in between meals, but they don’t seem to be too effective. I would prefer not to have to take caffeine or energy drinks, but if it prevents me from falling asleep, I would consider drinking them.

Any thoughts?

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I have a 11 yr old who has narcolepsy and epilepsy. durring the summer we go and have 3 or 4 attacks a week. well when school starts the attacks go to 3 or 4 a day. She takes 2 naps at school, but the wake her up from them. any advice??

I have also notice that is she dont eay meals and snacks she has spells. does this affect it?

She can go from being a bouncing off the wall 11 yr old, to a 11 yr having to be pushed in a wheel chair. because she is so weak.

I have researched, asked, and the drs are trying to adjust meds. now. does anyone know anything that can help us, be half way normal???

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Hey there. I have a friend who hasn’t been eating a lot for awhile now. She never ever gets hungry, or any sort of gnawing pain in her stomach. She just gets a small feel of emptiness inside and she forces herself to eat at least a meal a day so she doesn’t starve on accident.
She also feels tired occassionally, but she never actually is sleepy. Recently, she couldn’t sleep for several hours until about 6 AM or so, when she just passed out on her bed.
Are these the symptoms of something? Is there any way to treat this?
If it helps any, she stays up late, and doesn’t eat a lot in general, though she has a fast metabolism.
I’m sure she isn’t anorexic. She doesn’t force herself to be skinny, but she doesn’t eat a lot in general. (Too busy with other things, she says.) But she still eats snacks from time to time when she IS busy. However, she IS rather underweight. It’s also hard to tell if she’s pale since she’s tanned anyway. Her hair has gotten a little nappy since summer started.

Her insomnia might be caused by caffeine intake and her bad sleeping schedule. I’m sure that can be fixed though with tiring her out enough (exercise, doing something tiring and exciting during the day, etc…). As for the loss of appetite, though, I’m still not sure what to do.
She also told me she felt like she wanted to vomit a few times and that she feels pretty ill.
Another thing one of my friends came up with… The hours of sleep affect your appetite. If you don’t sleep enough, you get hungrier, but if you sleep too much, you don’t have an appetite. It makes sense, but would this be a possibility, you guys think? I’m hoping it is, because then it wouldn’t be as serious. As for the insomnia in general, it might be the abuse of caffeine mixed with a bad sleeping schedule. (Before she started having this problem, she would sleep at around 2 to 4 AM for about ten to twelve hours. Now she sleeps about nine hours, at 6 or 7 AM to around 3 PM.)

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