Have you heard or read Mike Birbiglia, Lisa? He has some crazy fucking stories about his sleep disorder.

Doesn't meara know him from school?

I would like a sleep study. Just to be sure (and apparently both of my parents have apnea and use cpaps, so...)

Have you heard or read Mike Birbiglia, Lisa? He has some crazy fucking stories about his sleep disorder.

he and I did theater together in college! Another "wait, he's famous now? Why am I not rich or famous??

Eta:hah! Xpost with matt!

Sleep doc expressed irritation when I told her that no, I didn't have anyone to tell me if I was snoring. I get that she's trying to diagnose apnea and related issues, but, fuck, SO I SLEEP ALONE. Keep biting my ass.

Hubby snores, but it was the 7-second intervals of him not breathing that bothered me. At least if he's snoring I know he's alive.

ita, if you had a different doctor I'd suggest setting up some sort of recorder to record you during the night. But at this moment I'd prioritize getting a new sleep doc over cooperating with this useless asshole.

I want to beat up this doc.

A lot.

Chicago Manual of Style says U.S. can only be used as an adjective. The AP Stylebook used to say that, but started allowing U.S. as a noun five or so years ago.

Good to know! We weren't even using full sentences in our summary though, so we decided it was okay.

DH has no trouble initially falling asleep but he's extremely sensitive to the slightest bit of light

I know couples can be weirdly accomodationist, but can't he use a sleep mask or something? It seems like you have to go to a lot of effort for his sensitivity.

Weird that I knew Mike Birbiglia went to Georgetown but not that meara did. Did you know John Mullaney? I don't know him, I just know he and Nick Kroll were influenced at Georgetown by Birbiglia.

So you've mad me analyze my sleep habits.

I generally fall asleep fairly quickly. I wake up a fair amount. A solid 8 is odd. If I go to bed before 10 the odds are high ( 90%) that I will wake up between 2 and 3 that I will be up until 5. Sometimes switching to the couch where it is cooler and I can't toss and turn helps ( I sleep like a cat - sleep wake up move - sleep wake up move ) If you wake me up in the middle of the night - I think you , and possibly the entire world should die. Luckily I am too tired to make it so. Ambien CR works well, but i only take it after 2 or 3 nights of waking up and not sleeping. it leaves me groggy, but that may be partially because I 've had too many days with no sleep. Exercise helps. sometimes getting up and making a list helps.

I've had some form of insomnia all my life; there has always been at least two nights a week (and never the same two) where I would be wide awake until 3 or 4 AM. It's just gotten worse as I've gotten older.

This was me until the Celexa side effects had the bonus of reducing my insomnia by a lot. I am so, so thankful to be in the small percentage of people who have lingering gronk after taking it, because it seriously reduces my need for the Lunesta.

Nope, Bon, I don't think I did (though probably they were people I vaguely recognized). Birbigs mostly hung with the improv crowd, but some of them did a bunch of regular theater too, and he did some. And we all partied together--the improv troupe was started my...sophomore year? By some theater kids. He was a year behind me, but I was closer with some of his housemates ( who did more theater).

Brad Cooper, otoh, I mostly knew as "that guy S has a completely ridiculous thing for and says she sometimes sleeps with him when he and his gf are broken up but we don't believe her, and make fun of him for his gay gay Versace pants"