Elderly

[Billfish]

I’m in my 70s. I’ve seen plenty of neurologist sleep specialists. I recently saw Dr. Buchfuhrer & now for the first time IN MY LIFE I’m sleeping how imagine normal people do, pretty much every night - I go to bed, I sleep, and I wake up! I sleep too much, but it’s way better. The problem I’m posting about is that I pretty much missed my life. I’m not complaining! I’m getting happier & happier! But still it’s something to deal with.

[badnights]

I understand what you mean. It is a hard one to deal with. No matter how positive a spin you put on things, there's still that fact that you lost all those years - perhaps you might even want to say, the best years. The only way to deal with it is to accept the bitter pill with a smile; it's irrelevant to the present, where life is. It's an engrossing game to stay aware of that. (I don't do so well with that some days.)
I wish you the best of luck, and I'm very happy that you found Dr B.
PS I hope you've him know how he changed your life

[ViewsAskew]

So happy for you, Billfish! (and I completely get where you are coming from)

[Stainless]

Billfish, can you expand on what this change in treatment was. One doctor cannot solve this international nightmare. What happens when he is gone. I would drop everything and fly across the US to see hime based on the praises on this site. Is he still talking patients?

[ViewsAskew]

Billfish, can you expand on what this change in treatment was. One doctor cannot solve this international nightmare. What happens when he is gone. I would drop everything and fly across the US to see hime based on the praises on this site. Is he still talking patients?

I truly live in terror of when Dr B retires.