Sudden Exhaustion

I was doing my normal Friday morning stuff when I was suddenly exhausted. I *had* to sit down. Once seated it was too difficult to hold my head up, so I rested it on the back cushion of hte loveseat. Before long I moved it to the armrest of the loveseat. I woke up uncomfortible, so I repositioned myself and fell back asleep immediately. It was hours before I woke up.

I'm not sure what happened. I remember removing a bit of dust from a timer with my finger. That's about the only thing I can recall that could have caused a problem

Since then, my sinuses have been running more than usual. I did feel better after the nap, but I'm a bit disturbed by how drastic and sudden the tiredness was.

No More Decongestant

Tired has been the watch word of the day for weeks now. My decongestant is no longer made. According to my prescription drug plan, I can buy the same thing (well, nearly) at a drug store. While it is, technically, true that I can purchase a similar compound over-the-counter, each month I can only purchase enough to last me one week. It's the law. It just happens the compound that works for me is one that can be used to make meth. I'm stuck.

I'm thankful I had more than five years of help with congestion. Perhaps some of the newer drugs will give me some relief. I've not heard anything back from my doctor regarding a script for anything else, just lots of silence. Still, it *was* nice while it lasted. It's too bad it's over.

Stabilized

Life has been everything except normal, yet the tiredness has pretty much stabilized. There's much more to do each day than I can hope to accomplish, but it's something I must accept.

This past week I took some adderall to keep up with commitments. Several mornings an hour after taking 10mg I was very sleepy. I could stay awake, but I could have easily slept.

Restlessness

The past two nights have been odd. I wake up at least a half dozen times. Each time I feel like I've been flopping around and not sleeping well. I feel entirely awake and unable to go back to sleep. I do manage to do so, but seem to wake-up immediately. When I check the clock anything from a half hour to 90 minutes have passed. It's not restful.

I can't think of much meaningful that I've done differently the past two days. Perhaps I had a bit more caffeine, but maybe one more soda or cup of coffee. I had a bit of sugar/dessert late, but that's not all that unusual. I've stayed on my medication. I've kept the same schedule and not had any naps at all during the day.

I'm not all that fond of trying to sleep tonight. Between the need to move my arms and legs and the general restlessness, I'd rather not do the sleep thing.

RLS & R-"A"-S?

Tuesday night, when I got home from grocery shopping, I was tired, tired enough that I actually asked my spouse to reposition the car in the garage after I got it all wrong. I helped my spouse unload the groceries, though he did most of it. Then it was bedtime. We listened to a bit of a webcast before turning out the lights. Then, it started.

First, it was my left leg. It needed to move. I couldn't find anything to ease the repeated tightening feeling in the middle of my shin. I stretched. I tried a bit of an alcoholic beverage. I tried drinking two glasses of water. Nope. Eventually, both my arms felt like they needed to move. That was the last straw. Finally, at nearly 12:30am, I took a hydrocodone. That did it. It's certainly not my favourite solution.

Last evening (Wednesday) I feared the same thing. By the time we arrived home from church, I was tired. After getting the boys into bed, it was bedtime for me, too. My spouse soon joined me and we listened to a bit of a recorded TV program. My legs felt like the precursor to the previous night's problems. Thankfully, nothing came of it.

Tiring Dreams

This morning I again awoke with dreams that had me wondering what was real. It also left me trying to figure out how to solve the problem of the last dream. It was then that I realized the sequence of dreams had been one problem after another that I needed to solve. It seemed much too close to real life: one problem after another that I need to solve. What a tiring thought.

Routine helps, not as tired

I still find myself very tired most days around 1-2pm, but I'm usually to manage around it. I do think the routine helps, but I'm far from getting what I need to accomplished each day.

I've tried various changes in when I take my medications. I no longer use my decongestant at night, but I do still use Nasonex.

More Nosebleeds

For a while, I stopped using Nasonex on a nightly basis. That alone may explain some of my morning tiredness. I've now used it two nights straight and I'm already experiencing nosebleeds again. Stuffing my nose with blood and blood clots negates the help Nasonex gives me in breathing. I have no problem putting up with nosebleeds if it helps me breathe. This is rather discouraging. I fear it's time to contact my physician again....it's not exactly a favourite of mine.

Remembering Does Happen Sometimes

The grogginess I feel in the morning, the down-right impossibility of keeping my eyes open, even when my children are literally crawling all over me...I just remembered that I've felt that way before. When we lived in our last house, mornings were often like that. I simply *couldn't* keep my eyes open. I couldn't concentrate enough on what was being said to me to say awake. Although it's not something I want to experience again, it's nice to remember something like that. I've been here before. I don't remember how/why it ended, but it's nice to know that it did.

Whoa, who knew it could be *harder* to wake up?

Due to a large filling that has progressed its way into needing a root canal, I'm on antibiotics. Thankfully they're inexpensive, but I think they're making me even more sleepy. Eeeek. Since starting the antibiotics, I regularly sleep to 8:30 or 9:00am.

Normally I'd sleep late if I could, but recently I can't wake up before then. I wake-up when my spouse gets up, but simply *can't* stay awake. Occasionally I sleep after my spouse gets up, but it's rarely past 7:30am -- I just have too much to do, not to mention two kiddos. Usually they'll come in my room to see me when they wake up. I've even fallen asleep while they're talking to me -- something I can nearly always keep from doing (at least in the morning).