Hello,
I'm struggling at the moment, sleep being the main issue. I have had a rough few years, i was diagnosed with microscopic enteritis, which in place has given me food intolerance's, after months of diarrhea i ended up being diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and then at the start of this year i found out my thyroid is being attacked by the immune system.
So in general i always feel tired, i push through as much as i can though, still attempting to get my education complete since i'm still young, but my current issue is that i've been feeling especially tired and it's that i wake up feeling like i have only slept 3 hour and this has been happening when i get any amount under 9 hours.
The problem is i'll go to sleep at say 10-11pm and then be up by 7am and feel absolutely exhausted, however i cannot sleep anymore without missing school, and I've already missed a lot due to the other issues i have. I feel decent after 10+ hours sleep, this is the strange part.
Now i do understand that the gut has links to serotonin and merotonin and is essential to healthy sleep, but this is only recent and my gut problems have been about as terrible as always. It also isn't CFS, i got used to the general fatigue of waking up with CFS. Now, after normal sleep, i just don't feel like i can do anything.
So i'm left with few solutions, wait in the public system to get into a sleep specialist (months). Don't attend school and try to see if it will fix itself, as if it is a sleep debt or something. Or sleep in and miss school and attend late. Either way i'm probably going to fail due to both attendance and missing tasks, if this is going to be an ongoing issue however i don't think i'll ever be able to pass school, the system isn't very accommodating for us ill people.
If anyone has any help or advice i would appreciate it.