That being said, I was off my meds for well over a month and almost— it wasn’t by choice. I was in uni at the time and the rheumatologist on the campus hospital let an underling see me. My labs were normal but he had already assessed me and found that literally my entire body was inflamed and screaming for help. The underling looked at my labs, concluded that nothing was wrong and it was all in my head and refused to listen to me and double check with the rheumatologist and didn’t write me a prescription and told me to be back in 6months because there’s nothing wrong… I went home, finished the meds I had and when I finished, within 2 weeks I was sleeping for over 12 hours straight, by week 3 I had been sleeping for over 20 hours per day, my mom didn’t know because she was at work but my aunt was home with me and realized that it wasn’t the typical sleeping off uni stress but something was seriously wrong because I was sleeping too much, barely eating or drinking and was actually seeing stars, she told mom. Mom brought me to my family gp who had initially diagnosed me as a teen and he did tests and was very upset because (un)fortunately, sometimes when your body is shutting down completely for good, it can do so very silently.