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clevermanka) wrote2007-04-05 03:51 pm
clevermanka) wrote2007-04-05 03:51 pm
Stumbling around in an exhausted haze
The tags feature is handy. I'm glad I finally started using them. Usually I don't remember to tag an entry right away, though, and I have to go back a week and catch up...but still. Handy. For example, by choosing to search based on the health tag, I was able to find my first reference to not sleeping well: March 13. I noted that I hadn't been sleeping that great for "a couple weeks" which means I pretty much haven't had three consecutive nights of 8-hour sleep in, um...a month.
OK, wow. That sucks.
And have I mentioned the still allergic? I've been coughing (nothing productive, just a constant tickle) since Monday. That's fun. Last night I woke up coughing, and hauled my ass out of the bed to take some cough syrup. I went back to sleep and woke up half an hour later with stomach pains (I assumed from the syrup on an empty stomach). I ate some graham crackers and ginger ale as fast as I could so I wouldn't completely wake up and went back to bed to sleep until I woke up at 6:00 a.m., an hour before my alarm was supposed to go off.
With rare exception, I believe I might be getting five hours of sleep a night--and those five hours aren't always consecutive.
I don't want to start on sleeping pills, but I'm not sure what else to try. Yoga, tea, meditation, and finger crossing just aren't cutting it. It's starting to affect how well I do my job, and that's where I draw the line. Screwing up things at work because I'm not sleeping isn't acceptable.
OK, wow. That sucks.
And have I mentioned the still allergic? I've been coughing (nothing productive, just a constant tickle) since Monday. That's fun. Last night I woke up coughing, and hauled my ass out of the bed to take some cough syrup. I went back to sleep and woke up half an hour later with stomach pains (I assumed from the syrup on an empty stomach). I ate some graham crackers and ginger ale as fast as I could so I wouldn't completely wake up and went back to bed to sleep until I woke up at 6:00 a.m., an hour before my alarm was supposed to go off.
With rare exception, I believe I might be getting five hours of sleep a night--and those five hours aren't always consecutive.
I don't want to start on sleeping pills, but I'm not sure what else to try. Yoga, tea, meditation, and finger crossing just aren't cutting it. It's starting to affect how well I do my job, and that's where I draw the line. Screwing up things at work because I'm not sleeping isn't acceptable.
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