So sick of being sick!
Jun. 29th, 2008 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llcoolvadI went back to work on Friday and Saturday. I was pretty tired, especially around midday.
I am still not sleeping. Let's use last night to illustrate: 1am, turn off light. 1:01am, fall asleep (yeah, that tired). 1:32 wake up. If coughing, pace for a few minutes so can breathe. If not coughing, pace for a few minutes anyway. Get back in bed. 1:45ish, fall asleep. 2:32, wake up. If leg cramp (another recurring problem) stretch leg, then pace. Change pillowcases at some point in night, because despite running A/C, am really sweaty. Pace, sleep, pace, sleep. Take random hits of medicine all night. First horrible coughing jag, take inhaler. Second horrible coughing jag, drink water. Third horrible coughing jag, elixir. Try not to repeat too much (except the water part). Around 6am curse everyone. Take advil. Still wake up. Finally give up around 10am.
I don't think I've slept more than one hour(? maybe less?) in a row in over a week now. I am VERY TIRED! I had to have Patrick drive to the restaurant last night because I thought I might drive into something. I need to be able to breathe regularly so I stop waking myself up. I think part of it is anxiety. I am afraid of sleeping too deeply since I'm finding it hard to breathe when I'm awake.
All day today I've napped on and off. I've tried propping myself up (causing Mom to come into my room and ask me if I was ok; apparently I make an appalling noise when propped up and she thought I was dying), sleeping on my back, sleeping on my side, sleeping on my front, with the A/C, without the A/C, with a fan, without a fan, with blankets, without blankets. I give up! I am apparently doomed to inadequate sleep for the rest of my life!!
(Well, it FEELS like that!)
What makes it all ESPECIALLY annoying is that I don't cough much now while awake. Especially if I don't talk much (talking really kicks off coughing jags). So it really seems like all this should be over! I am seeing the doctor again on the 14th, but that's a really long time from now. I will probably call him before much longer. There's got to be a solution.
Soon I shall try again to sleep....sigh. Will this never end?
I am still not sleeping. Let's use last night to illustrate: 1am, turn off light. 1:01am, fall asleep (yeah, that tired). 1:32 wake up. If coughing, pace for a few minutes so can breathe. If not coughing, pace for a few minutes anyway. Get back in bed. 1:45ish, fall asleep. 2:32, wake up. If leg cramp (another recurring problem) stretch leg, then pace. Change pillowcases at some point in night, because despite running A/C, am really sweaty. Pace, sleep, pace, sleep. Take random hits of medicine all night. First horrible coughing jag, take inhaler. Second horrible coughing jag, drink water. Third horrible coughing jag, elixir. Try not to repeat too much (except the water part). Around 6am curse everyone. Take advil. Still wake up. Finally give up around 10am.
I don't think I've slept more than one hour(? maybe less?) in a row in over a week now. I am VERY TIRED! I had to have Patrick drive to the restaurant last night because I thought I might drive into something. I need to be able to breathe regularly so I stop waking myself up. I think part of it is anxiety. I am afraid of sleeping too deeply since I'm finding it hard to breathe when I'm awake.
All day today I've napped on and off. I've tried propping myself up (causing Mom to come into my room and ask me if I was ok; apparently I make an appalling noise when propped up and she thought I was dying), sleeping on my back, sleeping on my side, sleeping on my front, with the A/C, without the A/C, with a fan, without a fan, with blankets, without blankets. I give up! I am apparently doomed to inadequate sleep for the rest of my life!!
(Well, it FEELS like that!)
What makes it all ESPECIALLY annoying is that I don't cough much now while awake. Especially if I don't talk much (talking really kicks off coughing jags). So it really seems like all this should be over! I am seeing the doctor again on the 14th, but that's a really long time from now. I will probably call him before much longer. There's got to be a solution.
Soon I shall try again to sleep....sigh. Will this never end?
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Date: 2008-06-30 10:40 am (UTC)Seriously. J has it at the moment, and it's rubbish. He still has a cough that's not quite gone away, and he had the main cold over two weeks ago, and he's all tired and not sleeping well, too.
Probably the anxiety isn't helping. You have my sympathy...
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Date: 2008-06-30 03:11 pm (UTC)