my eyelids always feel sooo heavy

Hi there . .im alf. Did u try acupuncture ? Did it work ?... my yeys cloee .hard to keep ooen .unles im doing things .strugle to keep open wen i drive or watch tv.

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I am 61. I years old. Have been dealing with for 25 years. Still can’t figure it out.

Get checked for Lyme Disease

Well folks. It may sound strange but suggest narcolepsy without cataplexy.. I’ve struggled with this since high school. I’m 37 years old now. Fell asleep driving, riding, at work ect. It felt like I had weights in my eye lids and I did everything I could to hold them open. Eventually the weights usually won. I learned to manage somethings. Fortunately my dad would usually talk to me anytime I had these struggles when driving to help keep me awake to get home.. this is scary I know but in the day when it would happen and no one to talk to me I’d put my sunglasses on so I didn’t look crazy and switch resting eyes because I could somewhat have the strength to hold one but not both open. Long story short.. I started having some marital problems (not related) I had a baby and my job got harder. I got depressed and it kept getting worse and worse until all the sudden I realized I was sleeping anywhere from 16-20 hours a day of sleep. Finally my mother made me make an appt and after discussing all of this (I’ll add some other symptoms shortly) I have been diagnosed as a narcoleptic without cataplexy. Other signs were when I fall asleep I immediately dream and can wake and dream so many dreams during sleep. And their vivid, some bad, some just me living out a dream as of awake. Apparently most people don’t do this.. or the heavy eye lid can’t dtsy awake sleep thing. I never thought to mention it to a doctor because otherwise I felt ok and if someone doesn’t tell u that’s not normal. I guess you just assume other people have that too. Anyhow. I hope this helps someone. Oh and the stress/depression overload increased the narcoleptic symptoms so I couldn’t function and thats the only way I would have ever known I had it without anyone calling it to my attention