Insomnia
meta January 7th, 2008
The insomnia is back. I’ve gotten a grand total of about 6 hours sleep over the past two days.
I’m not feeling too good right now: my head is foggy, I can’t concentrate, and I’m starting to feel depressed. This always happens when I can’t sleep.
What’s worse is I can feel the insomnia coming on for tonight as well: my body is humming like a dying flourescent light, I have this awful metallic taste in my mouth, and I can’t think, but I feel like I just took a handful of uppers. I haven’t had a drop of caffeine since 8:30 this morning.
I’m going out on my bike tonight for a little while to see if I can bike this off. I need to sleep deeply, and soon.
January 7th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I have chronic insomnia too. I’ve seen several doctors over the years and tried the natural cures, none of which work. The only thing that works for me is two Benadryls an hour before bedtime. They keep me drowsy enough to fall back to sleep when I wake during the night, but I can still function if necessary (sick kids or emergency). People that have never suffered from insomnia can’t begin to understand what it’s like. Lack of deep sleep can really fuck me up, on a mental and physical level. It is difficult to finish a simple sentence, judge distance, remember names. My hands tremor, fatique sets in easily, I crave sugar and high carbohydrate foods. My temper is short, and I have a lack-luster appearance; a Napoleon Dynamite-like expression on my face.
Traveling is tough, especially with groups of people. I love camping, but after about three of four nights of crickets, frogs and whippoorwills, I’m toast. The doctors never gave me medication, they didn’t want me to become dependent. The only thing I’m dependent on is sleep! I took it into my own hands and am now dependent on the Benadryls, but I sleep.
I hope you find what works for you. Pleasant dreams.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Another day, another template, another comment. I like the dark.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Did you finally crash? How’s the boy? Nice catching up with you yesterday; I was kinda effed.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
New layout is rad, btw. And the comments actually work, which is good.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Hope you are getting lots of REM time, late mornings and bear hugs with your son. Look forward to your return and healthy rants with our lovely friends in high places. ;O)
January 14th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Hope you have gotten some sleep by now. The site redo is GREAT! Plus it now lets me log on to comment, that was a problem before.
I have never had problems sleeping until about 4 months ago when I started waking after an hour or two of sleep and then being unable to go back to sleep. I’m not much of a believer in ‘natural’ cure BS but SO badgered me to take melatonin (sp) and it did seem to help a little bit.
Hope things are going well with you now.