Anyone else?
I'm 31f, in 2024 I started having these night time really scary episodes that no doctor can find a cause or explanation for. So it starts like this- I'm sleeping and then suddenly I wake up with a variety of weird symptoms, sometimes all together, sometimes I have only a few of them, that goes from seeing light patterns moving (in the dark with my eyes closed), strong dizziness (feeling like I'm on a boat), hot flashes (feeling extremely hot but not sweating), tremors, sickness like I'm going to vomit, loss of strength in my arms or legs and sometimes it leads into a full blown panic attack, sometimes not. I always feel scared during this, obviously, I was sleeping and wake up in the middle of the night like this, but I don't feel anxiety, if that makes sense. Sometimes I have this for multiple hours, the whole night, or just a few minutes. Sometimes I have this multiple nights a week, like this past week I've had it two nights but sometimes I go months without having it at all.Sometimes it's so strong that I'm not able to go to work the next day because I spent the whole night like this and I feel extremely hungover, my head super heavy and super thirsty as well, for the whole day. I had multiple doctors running a bunch of tests, never found anything other than Hashimotos, also diagnosed in 2024, and recently a new doctor thinks I have vestibular migraines and I'm waiting on an MRI to rule out other possible causes. I never have this during the day, it's always in the middle of my sleep. Anyone else ever had anything like this at all?
Posted Feb 23, 2026, 6:02 AM UTC