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A 63-year-old man who hasn’t slept
\n for more than two decades has been told there is nothing wrong with him
\n by doctors.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian Fyodor Nesterchuk from the town of Kamen-Kashirsky said the
\n last time he managed to doze off was more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
"I can’t remember the exact date and I don’t know why it started,
\n but all of a sudden I found it more and more difficult to nod off until
\n eventually
\n I was awake the entire night.
\n "
\n I used to read boring scientific periodicals in the hope they would send
\n me to sleep. But as soon as I felt my eyes getting droopy and put the
\n magazine down, I would find myself wide awake again. I thought it would
\n just be a phase but its gone on for over 20 years now and I’ve simply
\n had to get used to it.<\/p>\n
"Now when everyone else sleeps I get stuck into a good book," said
\n Nesterchuk.
\n All attempts by doctors to put him to sleep have failed and they now
\n say there’s nothing wrong with the insurance broker.<\/p>\n
Local doctor Fyodor Koshel who has examined Nesterchuk extensively and
\n has been unable to make him fall asleep, said he has no idea of the cause
\n of the insomnia and added medically there is nothing wrong with him.<\/p>\n
"We have no idea why he can’t sleep, maybe it’s the result of a
\n past illness. But pathologically speaking, he’s not in any pain and so
\n there isn’t
\n anything actually wrong with him," said Dr Koshel.<\/p>\n
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\n slept. Or at least that there were weeks at a a time when we were convinced that
\n we had lain awake all night, thinking. We invented armies of good ghosts
\n to protect us against the evil ghosts fairy tales
\n and movies
\n convinced us were as real as the shadows in our closet. The hours seemed
\n endless, stretching until the first light of day crept through the window
\n and
\n the family started
\n moving towards breakfast. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n speaking, things didn’t really start to get interesting until the SECOND
\n sleepless night in a row. After 48 hours without sleep the audio hallucinations
\n start to kick in. But 20 YEARS! This guy needs to write a book so we can
\n all learn from the Nesterchuk Method…<\/em><\/p>\n