Falling Asleep...

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During the past two weeks, something sorta strange has been happening. I'd be sitting in class, taking notes when all of the sudden my eyes would start closing, it sounds silly, you may ask ''can't you just keep them open''? It's not like that, it's completely involuntary. It has nothing to do with my classes as I don't find them boring or anything. This has been happening every few days.

Just one more detail. Usually it happens just once during the day, about ten minutes into class. I never fall asleep but like I said, my eyes keep closing and my head keeps drooping, and then things start to get blurry and sort of double up. However, by the next class I feel perfect and am fine for the rest of the day. I exercise often and get between 7 - 8 hours sleep...in case these matter.

If anyone could maybe please suggest a solution or just what this could be or what to do, I'd be really grateful.

Thank you.

I'd suggest looking at your diet.I recently switched to a much healthier diet, but a side-effect was that I would drift off with exactly the same symptoms as you had at random points in the day.It took about 4 weeks of fine tuning, but I think the key for me was vitamin C.Have you made any changes to what you eat recently?

That used to happen to me but it was only because of what i ate or what little i used to eat. So it is a good idea to go to the docter and to change your diet. See a nutritionist.

A while ago I was eating pretty badly, but in the past few weeks I've really fixed things I think - I have breakfast every day now, something small for lunch and when I get home I eat something more substantial now that I used to. I don't eat too much junk and do eat a lot of fruit. I drink coffee, but thats nothing new - I have low blood preassure and can get dizzy and black out, but the whole falling asleep thing feels totally different. With the blacking out I get a pounding in my head but with the sleepyness it's only that - sleepyness..

is it the same class every time? or same general area? because i wouldnt know exactly but i wouldnt be surprised if it could be allergy related if its one area you get sleepy in.