Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'fatal familial insomnia'.
Found 1 result
-
For the last couple of months I've had gradually worsening insomnia, at first it was being caused by my upstairs neighbour who has wooden floorboards in her bedroom so whenever she walked around which she would do regularly from 5am she would wake me up. Now that's stopped but I am having worse and worse problems sleeping, both in getting to sleep but also in staying asleep. It's got so bad now that I barely sleep throughout the night and I find it harder and harder to function at work. I have done all the things people advise you to do re sleep hygiene, I don't drink much alcohol, one cup of tea in the morning and the sleep aids which used to work like nytol etc no longer work at all. I'm starting to feel terrified because I know insomnia can be one of the early symptoms of vCJD and can also be a sign of fatal familial insomnia. Does anyone have any experience of really bad insomnia and if so how long did yours last and what helped?
