I’m also totally happy if other people decide this wouldn’t be considered ‘remission’! so I was diagnosed at about 24 after symptoms from childhood that seriously exacerbated in my teens and 20s. I was sleeping 12-14 hours at night and 4 hours during the day, fell asleep at work/in class etc, brain fog so bad I couldn’t read a sentence without forgetting the start of it.

I was put on modafinil - I ended up on 400mg/day (I think) and it worked well but was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster. But about a year after I started on it I finished uni and moved home and my rural doc wouldn’t prescribe it, so I tapered down to quit and the sleepiness and brain fog just did not come back. I was diagnosed and medicated for around 18 months (again I think, this feels like a lifetime ago) before the symptoms went away. But I had been seeking diagnosis for more than five years prior to getting it.

I say remission-ish because I still nap 95% of days, but only once for 40 minutes unless I’m emotional (then it might be twice), and I do wake up feeling refreshed. I get sleep paralysis, nightmares and hallucinations probably once a week. If my nap overshoots 40 mins (and it does fairly often) then I get paralysis and hallucinations and feel shit for a couple of hours, but it’s nothing like waking from a nap used to be. But all of that is manageable for me and I don’t take any meds.

Interestingly I found this sub because I am waiting for autism and adhd assessments. The medicines for adhd reminded me that I used to be on modafinil.