Since I stopped taking my Xyrem exactly one week ago I've been averaging about 7-8 hours of sleep each night. For the last couple of days I've been wondering if getting a lesser amount of sleep would be the trigger that would set off my severe EDS again. I didn't purposely set out to test this last night and today, but it worked out that way just the same. After work last night I went over to a friend's place and hung out for a couple of hours. We hadn't really talked or hung out at all in at least a couple of years so it was good to catch up on how each other has been doing. Anyway, as a result I didn't make it home until a few hours later than I usually do on a work night. And then when I got home I had a couple of things to take care of, and then I decided to stay up a little later and do some things online and read a little bit. So by the time I actually laid down to go to sleep it was midnight or a little later. I woke up at 6 when my alarm went off, and then laid in bed for the next 45 minutes waking up and dozing off every few minutes as my alarms repeated waking me up. Altogether I got probably 6 hours of good sleep last night. Today I have at times been sleepier than I've been all week. About half an hour ago I was on the verge of taking some of my stimulants, but I decided to wait a bit longer and the sleepiness subsided somewhat. I want to feel awake and function but I soooo do not want to take my stimulants. So I'm going to try to make it through the rest of the day without them. I don't know if I'm going to make it though. I can feel the sleepiness starting to return now. It's nowhere near as severe as it used to be - not yet, anyway - but it is definitely there to a lesser extent.

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