Slept for 18 hours yesterday because I couldn’t wake up - GP or A&E?

[Headproblems]

Just looking for some advice because I know the NHS is massively overstretched at the moment and I don’t want to waste resources if this is just a GP thing.

Basically for the past few months I have been experiencing lots of headaches and some dizziness and oversleeping. It hasn’t been consistent so I’ve never really got it checked out because it’s never been enough to cause huge issues.

However this week, every day I have been struggling to wake up and until at least 10am I have been in and out of sleep feeling completely without control, no matter how hard I’ve been trying to stay awake I fall straight back to sleep within minutes and have to force myself to stay awake.

In the middle of this week I walked upstairs and my ears went fuzzy and my head started spinning, it was really scary because for about 3 minutes my ears went in waves and I could barely hear, like I was under water.

I’ve tried earlier nights but nothing has been helping. I have my own business and it’s affecting my work, being unable to concentrate and missing meetings.

Yesterday I slept for 18 hours throughout the day, it was impossible to wake up I was so drowsy, at one point I thought I was awake and I was talking to my partner about ingredients (?) but I was still asleep and apparently all he could hear was muffles, and it got to a point where my head started waving and it felt like I was falling every time I shut my eyes, this lasted for about 10 minutes.

I awoke at 8pm and went back to sleep at 1am, and this morning couldn’t wake up until 11am and had to literally force myself into a cold shower to wake up.

I managed to get up and ready, have come downstairs and I am so dizzy I feel like I’m going to pass out (I haven’t), and my head feels like there is pressure around my temples.

I’ve not taken any new medication and the medication I do take I have been taking the same for about 8 years now, no changes that I can think of in diet, I do feel dehydrated from all the sleep though.

I’m unsure whether to call 111 because I’m feeling shaky and dizzy but not sure if it would be better to wait it out until Monday for an emergency GP appointment.

But not being able to wake up is scaring me and frustrating me, I don’t want to be sleeping the days away, I physically just cannot wake up no matter how hard I try.

Please if anyone can give me some advice or has experienced this before I would really appreciate it

No. Her mum sounds really unkind and unsympathetic, the Dr was no doubt rushed off his feet and couldn't find anything imminently wrong. That tells us nothing about OP at all.

Not when the OP presented with a heart rate of 140 and elevated white blood cells @Perspectivo, no. CLEARLY. These are not symptoms of the mind!

Fortunately she is getting the right advice from at least one person (111) and as her symptoms have rapidly deteriorated, the hospital will be able to further test & get her on a path to recovery.

There are a number of very real illnesses which could cause these symptoms. I don't think it's helpful for the OP for anyone to list them all of them out here now, as she's actually in the right place to get the testing & elimination done to get an accurate diagnosis.

But maybe you could help play your part @Perspectivo by not piling on & being an absolute d*ck and telling her she's making it up.

Or are you her Mum?

What a tool. 🙄

Bored of picking holes in my thread about weight loss with a broken arm are we? Get a life @Perspectivo honestly.

Hope you ARE OK @Headproblems

Oh yes I recall. Surviving on toast but I just pointed out that your husband could prepare meals and snacks to help you. But you didn’t like that suggestion for some bizarre reason!

No - you read my post wrong in the first place then wouldn't let it go. Strange.

I name changed - I am cazelet BTW

Link to it! Seriously all I said was the dh could leave soup and stews so that the op was able to eat healthy food
and I suggested lots of walking

Any news, OP? Hope you're ok

That does sound worrying OP. Try to ignore the people having a go on this thread - guaranteed they wouldn't be as nasty if they were spending their days sleeping and feeling so unwell because they had no other choice. L

I think most people with chronic illnesses do live like this which is why none of these symptoms seem extreme or an emergency. However until op gets a diagnosis nobody will know that which is why this thread isn't helpful except to cause further anxiety to op. People need to stop guessing and let the drs do their job

Sorry you’re feeling so unwell, hope a resolution is found soon.💐

Definitely, random people diagnosing others online is never helpful, but the supportive posts can be helpful when you're worried and not being taken seriously. Hopefully if OP does have a chronic illness, she is told what it is and at least knows why she feels like this. Not knowing what's wrong is scary.

Go to gp, get your bloods checked. Could be severe vitamin D deficiency

Absolutely its a long journey and the start is always the scariest I really hope for op sake it's something that can be controlled and not like many conditions you just have to except and live with because its often significantly life changing and I wouldn't wish It on anyone

I don't think I've ever seen anything as mad as this thread. Read it with a dropped jaw. You'd think from reading some of the posts that nobody who wasn't having a heart attack should ever go to A&E. Chronic conditions can suddenly become acute. And just as another example, you don't 'know' you're in urgent need of treatment for sepsis till the painful insect bite that the actual on call GP told you scathingly 'wasn't going to kill you' very suddenly, in the middle of the night, results in high fever, confusion, rigor and a blue light trip to hospital. Leave the poor OP alone. Hope she gets the expert diagnosis and treatment she needs asap.

So sorry your mum is so nasty and I hope you’ve got some answers. It’s an awful feeling knowing something isn’t right and not knowing what’s going on in your own body.

This is very true. I dread to think of someone being very portly and listening to the advice of the people on here to stay home and not waste resources. We have hospitals for a reason, this person is clearly unwell, she doesn’t have a little sniffle!

Oh my goodness I’m so sorry this is happening to you. I don’t know what it could be but does sound similar to extreme anemia symptoms with the sleeping and palpitations. but I didn’t want to read and run, just want to wish you well and hope you get some answers and treatment soon 💐💐

Definitely, random people diagnosing others online is never helpful

I think it is incredibly helpful. Dh has been to the the doctors over 2 different illnesses.
One where he presented at church he doctor having lost a few stone in weight in a few weeks
and another when he found he was as constipated and his stomach looked like he had a large balloon underneath his shirt

Both times, different doctors diagnosed him with stress.

The first illness was diagnosed by a friend without any medical knowledge and was an architect as type 1 diabetes

The second Dh diagnosed himself with bowel cancer from his experience with watching his own father die from it. But the doctors wouldn’t test for it and told him that he was frightening himself with Dr Google
It took me carrying him into A&E to get a diagnosis

One where he presented at church he doctor having lost a few stone in weight in a few weeks

at the doctors

dont know where church came from

But neither of these are complete strangers this is the point we've never met op, have no clue about any of her past medical issues, her lifestyle, what medication she takes ect.

absolutely,
mn can scare you witless

Give what a rest, I'm not gonna agree that random strangers online are better at diagnosing then drs. If you agree with that, then that's your choice but don't tell people to shut up just because u don't agree with them people are allowed opinions on an online forum