Acute Clinical MicroSleep and Other Atypical Anatomical Functions

basically this is a chronic response that your body does when it is in too much pain to preform its functions. it is often misdiagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome or narcolepsy. this has been happening to me be teen every hour to 30 minutes. ill suddenly become exhausted and fall into REM for 2-3 minutes and wake up and be awake for an hour or so. this is great for when i don't feel well but its happening all night to. one of the interesting things about being an anomaly when it comes to the health of a 20 year old, is learning about atypical anatomical functions (its a mouth full, right?) like, when a non-EDS patient would dislocate their knee you would expect extreme pain and difficulty resetting the joint. however, since i have EDS, i have a mixed connected tissue disorder allowing me to pop my joints in and out (not that it doesn't hurt, it does but my body can't prevent it from happening) another example of strange bodily function is thinking about having Lupus. my immune system attacks its own body and cells unless i take a daily chemotherapy drug. i sometimes wonder why it is that most people who are diagnosed with a chronic illness usually have more then one. like for insistence, my friend Leah has ehlers-danlos syndrom, POTS, GERD, and MVP. while some of them are related, some are not so much. when i was first diagnosed with Lupus, i was also diagnosed with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrom) and over the next year or so, quite a few others (diagnosis story was in the previous post) is it because our body's are made more susceptible once you have one illness? is it a flaw in anatomy when you are born? i wish there were a foundation for the study of Chronic conditions.