I have horror sleep stories. But not the military type sleep stories.
I have this hereditary thing called Restless Leg Syndrome, and for five days straight, the moment I hit the bed, my legs would go into extreme pain. If I wasn't moving, I felt like I was dying. They say restless legs gets worse as you age, my father is 53 and has had it for a good 3 decades now, and he says I have it far worse than he does already. I've tried the prescribed medicine for it but it never helped.
This was also including intense workouts for 2 hours 6 days a week, each day with a pre-workout drink that usually screws with my sleep anyways.
There were also other personal issues affecting my body that killed my sleep.
The last time I had slept in that stretch was a Sunday night, waking up at around 8am on Monday and not falling asleep until Saturday about 5am. There were times where my body was so miserably tired, it would shutdown and I would fall asleep but it never lasted over 10 minutes and it was incredibly rare. So that was 117 hours, with about 40 minutes of sleep total in that whole stretch. I'm counting it as five days lol.
That was about a year ago...
Just three months ago, I had another bad restless leg attack that stretched 3 nights without falling asleep. I swear something else must be wrong with me because the prescribed medicine doesn't help.
I went in to work on the third day without sleep... my manager looked at me and immediately said, "Get in your car and go home or I will literally force you in my van and drive you there myself." lol. So it got me off work at least.
