IH and alcohol use

Hi everyone,

This is a little different from the sort of stuff that usually gets posted here, I hope it’s okay.

I was wondering if else here ever uses alcohol to help stay awake. I am NOT recommending it. But, it was sort of my main strategy for about a decade. I’m five months sober now, and have a sleep study consultation scheduled for this February. My symptoms match up with IH, I just put the sleep study off for years because I knew the first thing the doctors would tell me was to quit drinking, and I wasn’t ready.

After talking to lots of fellow sober people about it, it sounds like using alcohol as a method of staying awake is…not super common. I’m definitely glad I quit, but honestly, the one and only reason I still yearn for it is because it was the one single thing that would give me anything close to the sort of energy boost that a normal person seemingly gets from a cup of coffee.

I guess all I want to know is, has anyone with a diagnosis had a similar experience? This is maybe the only weird thing my body does that I’ve yet to hear another person say “yes, I experience that too”.