ADHD, Sleep, and Me: It’s Complicated
Getting to the bottom of sleep problems will, at the very least, help you better manage ADHD symptoms. If you're anything like me — who lived with undiagnosed sleep apnea until adulthood — it may save your life.
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The best thing that has happened for sleep apnea is Inspire! It is a small implantable device (it’s a short outpatient procedure!) that senses when you are not breathing right and gently stimulates a nerve to open up your airway. There’s a little remote you activate when you go to bed. HUGE improvement over wearing those awful CPAP machines! Check out Inspire Medical Device.
It’s always amazing, and often overwhelming, to read someone saying the exact things that are going on in my life. Particularly this: “Fatigue overwhelmed me, as if my brain were barreling into shutdown mode. Digging my pen into my leg until it hurt, even puncturing the skin a bit, seemed reasonable — a defibrillator, if you will. I wanted to pay attention; I physically could not.” Thanks for this article. I got my sleep apnea diagnosis right as the covid nonsense started, so I haven’t been able to go get a CPAP device yet. Hopefully I can go soon.
Wow, this is exactly my same situation. Diagnosed with restless legs and sleep apnea in 2015, septoplasty in 2016, and finally diagnosed with ADHD-PI in 2018. Still trying to find the right combinations of CPAP, stimulants, and RLS meds. It’s a struggle, and absolutely the nights where I haven’t slept well, the ADHD symptoms are far more severe the next day.