@gynosaur42

I suspected an incident in 2025 may have played a part, but I'm not sure, due what seems to me to be the lack of a clear pattern.

My sibling whom I was close with in childhood died suddenly in their 30s last year, contributed to by fault of medical staff. I considered this traumatic, but besides trouble sleeping the night I was told by my parents of the death, I don't think I've noticed a clear pattern since then. Random wakes with subjectively heavier pulse for several weeks in late 2025 I attributed to elevated heavy metals of arsenic, mercury, thallium (since resolved via diet changes). By the time I started noticing the sleep myoclonus shortly before March, it had already been a half year since sibling's death.

A related event I also consider traumatic was watching the hospital CCTV footage of my sibling dying that had recently been released to my family, when I took detailed notes of my sibling's movements and of medical staff recovery attempts afterwards. I thought this would mess with my sleep, but that was the evening of 4/14 which I noted in a prior post - fell asleep within 5-10 minutes with just melatonin, 0-1 wakeups and over 7h sleep, no myo noticed. This is despite stopping the video before I finished logging it due to subjective distress, deciding to complete logging it the next day after returning subjectively more detached (which I did, and I don't have anything logged for my sleep on the evening of 4/15 either so I guess I slept fine that night too). So again, to me it seems there's no clear direct 1:1 relation between these incidents and sleep.

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Sleep transition performance has been hit/miss last 5 days.

Evenings of 4/16, 4/17 and 4/19 were relatively normal, 7-8+ hours of sleep per night, in one case possibly 9h when including naps next day. Melatonin drops 1mg on 4/16, 4/17, nothing on 4/19. Recorded up to a few myo (including teeth click) on 4/16 and maybe 4/19 but was able to ignore it and get to sleep quickly after.

Evenings of 4/18 and 4/20 contrarily: reached N2-N3 only after 4am despite being in bed for hours (likely contributed to by late wakes preceding day). 4/20 evening, again experienced more than a few myo (including teeth clicks) and random N1 wakes. 4/18 also had up to a few myo and maybe an N1 wake but I attributed the restlessness largely to DSPD. On 4/18 I eventually took a Dayvigo; on 4/20 I withheld taking one again so soon, but eventually reached N2/N3 likely between 4-5am. On 4/20 I exercised relatively late (past 9pm) which I guess probably wouldn't help.

On both 4/18 and 4/20, after a few hours of failing to pass N1, I listened to the Sleep With Me Podcast (downloaded some full episodes and had them on shuffle repeat) which seemed to help due to the monotone voice and nonsensical "dream-like" chatter (although the voice itself generally seems enough).

Although transition on 3 of the 5 preceding nights were normal, notably, myo were still noticed on most of those nights (including teeth clicks, but also, especially 4/20 evening, subtle movements of jaw, eyebrow and other body parts, like was more prevalent for a few nights within the last few weeks, although not as bad as when I initially posted this thread), something I rarely or never noticed before early March besides the rare hypnic jerk. Since they're still occurring, I'll probably talk to another doctor and try to get a free sleep apnea testing kit and/or other suggestions. Also debating whether to get an enhanced full-body MRI at Prenuvo which includes a brain health assessment (https://www.prenuvo.com/enhanced-screening) in case there's anything neurological going on that can be detected via imaging. It's expensive but there's a member return discount lasting for another month. I did a regular whole body scan with them a few years ago with no regrets.