Doctors Answers (3)
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Healthy sleep patterns can develop by adhering to good rules of sleep. You are correct about insomnia and while you may have a variation of insomnia you may also have a medical disorder of which one of the symptoms is wakefulness. You should consult a board certified sleep doctor to help you. It is possible that you have a form of narcolepsy. Narcolepsy patients have trouble staying awake in the daytime and difficulty sleeping at night. Help is available.
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As a teenager your body changes and hormone levels may be worsening a chronic problem of insomnia. You may need to have your primary care check your overall health to see that there is nothing abnormal physiologically. You can see a sleep specialist to perform an overnight sleep study and a series of MSLT naps the following day to see how sleepy you are during the day and how disrupted your sleep was at night. I would also have the doctors screen you for depression as this may be having an adverse effect on your sleep quality. This may be a good place to start as you sound like you have a fairly complicated situation with your sleep.
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It is best you see a sleep physician. Your sleep history is complicated and will require a thorough evaluation and a complicated management plan.