Aw Perkins, i'm sorry you are awake. I am too but it's a little after my usual wake up time. Why am I tired all the time again?
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Oct 20, 2010 3:36:28 am PDT #711 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
msbelle - Oct 20, 2010 3:40:05 am PDT #712 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Amy, do you have fibro? my mom's fibro causes her restless leg all the time.
Amy - Oct 20, 2010 3:48:22 am PDT #713 of 30001
Because books.
I'm not sure, msbelle. I've had some problems with all-over muscle fatigue and I'm beginning to think I'm developing arthritis, especially in my hands -- my mom has lupus and fibro and arthritis (hat trick!), so I pay attention. The restless legs have gotten bad just in the last few years.
Hil R. - Oct 20, 2010 4:09:08 am PDT #714 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
One of my cousins recently had surgery for chiari malformation. His mother asked me if I had been tested for it, since it sometimes happens along with EDS or hypermobility. I haven't been tested, but I don't really have any symptoms, so there's really no reason to test me. (I used to get migraines right around the time I got my period at least a few times a year, but since I started taking Yaz, that's completely stopped.)
Jesse - Oct 20, 2010 4:14:47 am PDT #715 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Maybe it will be the new lupus. Countdown to a House episode starts now.
Heh.
Jessica - Oct 20, 2010 4:15:11 am PDT #716 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I'm very thankful that I've never had to deal with insomnia. Sleep dep, yes, but that's parenting-induced and temporary. Temporary being measured in years, but still.
(And currently in the midst of the waking-up-every-two-hours-to-pee phase of pregnancy, but I figure that's just biology's way of preparing me for the inevitable wake-up-every-two-hours-to-feed-the-baby phase which follows.)
billytea - Oct 20, 2010 4:39:37 am PDT #717 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
(I used to get migraines right around the time I got my period at least a few times a year, but since I started taking Yaz, that's completely stopped.)
Clearly, the only way was up.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 4:51:59 am PDT #718 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have had many MRIs, but I don't know if I've had a sideways one. They all blur together at this point.
As does my life. I'm clutching my Red Bull and trying not to cry. I know for sure I didn't get to sleep before 1:30, and subjectively it felt like a lot less than five hours, because there was a lot of rolling around in the silent wee hours.
My head is pounding again, and I'm finding it hard to keep the damned drink down, and, just, this is a lot of experimentation to be doing with my real life, you know?
Theodosia - Oct 20, 2010 4:56:02 am PDT #719 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I switched taking my Celexa to night, and have less sleepiness during the day. When I first started on Paxil, for the first time in my life I was able to regularly deeply nap (i.e. fall all.the.way.asleep) without serious illness helping things along.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 20, 2010 4:58:40 am PDT #720 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I had a sleep study and they found that RLS was the cause of my problems. It's a nasty one. Mine's related to fibromyalgia and EDS, apparently. Pregabalin (for nerve pain) has, unintentionally, helped a bit. I take zopiclone (sleep drug that I think is similar to Ambien) when it gets impossible to handle.
Edit: Wishing you rest and less pain, ita.