The ophthalmologist is not usually much help but a neuro-ophthalmologist or preferably a behavioral optometrist would be worth the effort.

If you do have sleep apnea, it can make PCS miserable. It is also know to be a cause of Mild Cognitive Impairment. It can slowly take away cognitive functioning.

I get my best sleep in a recliner where I have less chance of apnea episodes. My dreams are better. I wake refreshed.

My breathing is so much better after having my deviated septum repaired along with a reducing in size of the turbinates. The ENT thinks I shattered my septum during my bike accident. I used to get bloody noses during the winter. No more....

If the brain is not getting good oxygen during sleep, everything works poorly.

Do you take bouts with sleepiness during the day ?

Definitely don't want to over stimulate but doing nothing wont yield me much. I have consulted with multiple specialists on how the brain function and the vision part of the brain and are stumped and don't know what to do with me. They have just recommended medications to me.

I don't usually get very sleepy during the day but i do take b12 at midday because i do wear down by midday. But i cannot nap even if i wanted during the day. Is it safe to get septoplasty (nose surgery) with this condition?

p.s. i have never had surgery before.

My septoplasty went very well last Oct 7, much better than my shoulder surgery. Prepare to need pain meds for day 2 to 4. Then, just ibuprofen. But, by 2 weeks after, you will be saying, Why didn't I do this long ago? Well worth the few days of discomfort.

I had the same issues while sleeping. I would wake and feel like I had just been in a fight. The doctors put me on amitriptyline and this mostly disappeared. I can still have issues when really overstimulated.

Allday,

I used to have strange episodes during sleep too.

Don't know what they were about but like doozer I felt like I had done battle with something and would wake from those episodes in a panic.

I don't have anything like that now but I do believe it was overstimulation related and when that was going on it took very little to overstimulate me!

Bud

They tried nortriptyline on me and my toes started to swell up and turned red so the doctor told me to stop taking them. Now i am going to try topamax. Do you think that a vitamin regimen will help me and if so what would be a good vitamin regimen. Can you also put at what time i should take each vitamin.

Read the Vitamin sticky at the top of the PCS index page. There is a link to an updated list.

Time of day, brands and such do not matter as much as getting started and staying disciplined for 2 months.

I take 600 mgs of gabapentin to help my mind and body settle to sleep. Otherwise, I tend to jerk.