Hi doctor,I am a 46 year old female, who weighs 170 lbs and is 5.4 feet tall. I have symptoms of chronic fatigue. I had a sleep study recently that showed I have intrusion in every stage of sleep, and I have sleep fragmentation that occurs 14+ times an hour. My sleep doctor did not seem to think this would make me tired. He said the body has a way of recovering from that and getting enough sleep. I was diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia without known cause to my fatigue.I have been tracking my sleep with a fitness watch. When I fall asleep, which does not take long, I enter stage 3, that is, slow wave sleep, within 5 to 10 minutes. Can going into a deep sleep that quickly indicates a problem or contributes to fatigue? I also will fully wake up during the night (go to the bathroom) but go back to sleep and hit REM within five minutes. I heard that is normal during the night, right?
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