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Asked in : Sleep Disorder
Asked on : Fri, 16 Mar 2012
Published on : Mon, 19 Mar 2012

Status : Published

hello. i am having trouble sleeping. i jump at any small click or noise in a silent room but as it makes me jump i get a flash of light in my eyes and is very disturbing. this only seems to happen when drifting off in the dozy stage of sleeping. could any1 help me on this please. thankyou

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