Dear Drs.
I'm a male, 30 years old,normal blood pressure,50 kgs,no heart or lung disease.
I have been suffering from fatigue,dificulty concentrating and daytime sleepiness since 1997 and no one has found why.
Here is my history:
Everything started in 1997 when I had a bout of depression and since then I have never slept like before again.I have been given every antidepressant on the sun for the last 5 years and I still feel the same way with no improvement with my symptoms,as doctors think this is PURE depression.
In 2001 I had a sleep study done and it showed very mild sleep apnea. The neurologist put me on a CPAP machine and I used it for like a year with ZERO improvements,so makes me wonder that my sleep problem is very uncommon to what is found in most sleep labs.
One funny thing is that in this 8 years of feeling this way,I have only had like 10 days (randomnly) in which I have woken up completely refreshed like a new person,just like before 1997, when all this started.
One day in year 2000 I woke up at 4:00AM and then suddenly fell asleep,and by 6:00AM I woke up completely refreshed (I only slept 2 hours !) .I did not have any daytime sleepiness, fatigue or difficulty concentrating on that day.
Does this sounds like a sleep problem caused by maybe a blood gases exchange or metabolic problem (blood sugar abnormalities, etc)? All my endocrinology, liven and kidney tests are very normal by the way.
Also,have you heard of accutane causing these kind of problems or permanent brain damage,as I was given this drug for 4 months in that time.
Thanks,
Roberto