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alexandraerin) wrote2009-04-23 01:53 pm
alexandraerin) wrote2009-04-23 01:53 pm
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Spring Break-Ish
Folks, there has been and is going to continue to be updates for everything this week, but I've just realized it's Thursday (I mean that literally... I just checked the computer's clock to see if it was Tuesday or Wednesday) and I'm not going to hit the planned number of updates for the week. I should have been able to see this in advance and said so: my roommate's off work this week, my insomnia was in full force coming out of the weekend and I haven't been able to catch up on sleep by crashing during the day like I did last week because they've been working on the parking lot right outside and we've had painters in to clean up the results of the bathroom renovation and people in the hall... basically, it's spring cleaning time for the apartment complex.
Basically, I am so bone-tired mentally and physically but I can't sleep, for internal and external reasons. I should have declared this a vacation week and just tried to relax through it as best as I could. Gah. I said at some point (last summer, I think) that I'd do that once a quarter. I don't think I've ever managed to hold myself to it except semi-retroactively.
The writing I have done I think has turned out surprisingly pretty good, so I'm not going to take today and tomorrow off. My goal for the week is just to get as much as writing done as I can, make sure every story is represented since they've all got sponsors and people rooting for them, and then get my sleep sorted out on the weekend.
Melatonin has been suggested to me... as I recall, when I tried it before I didn't enjoy the side effects the next day, but I think if I take it Friday and Saturday night to ensure a night's sleep, that might work since what it's supposed to do is reset the circadian cycle. With that done, there's no reason why next week can't be like last week but without the updates drifting into Saturday.
Basically, I am so bone-tired mentally and physically but I can't sleep, for internal and external reasons. I should have declared this a vacation week and just tried to relax through it as best as I could. Gah. I said at some point (last summer, I think) that I'd do that once a quarter. I don't think I've ever managed to hold myself to it except semi-retroactively.
The writing I have done I think has turned out surprisingly pretty good, so I'm not going to take today and tomorrow off. My goal for the week is just to get as much as writing done as I can, make sure every story is represented since they've all got sponsors and people rooting for them, and then get my sleep sorted out on the weekend.
Melatonin has been suggested to me... as I recall, when I tried it before I didn't enjoy the side effects the next day, but I think if I take it Friday and Saturday night to ensure a night's sleep, that might work since what it's supposed to do is reset the circadian cycle. With that done, there's no reason why next week can't be like last week but without the updates drifting into Saturday.
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She gave me a prescription for sleeping pills (ambien). They did nothing. I tried a different prescription (lunesta) that had worked in the past, combined with zoloft. The zoloft helped me FEEl better, but the sleeping pills, even at higher doses, still did nothing.
She also gave me a whole slew of stuff on good sleep habits, and told me to read a book called Say Goodnight to Insomnia. I ordered it off Amazon, and it should be arriving shortly. The changes in my daily habits have helped a LOT though.
I stopped drinking all regular soda, which cut a significant portion of sugar and caffeine from my diet. Caffeine can stay in your system for up to 20 hours. I started going to bed at the same time every night, following a bedtime routine. If I couldn't fall asleep, I'd get up for a period, and try again. Once I woke up, I got up no matter how much sleep I'd gotten. As soon as I woke up, or as soon as it was light out, I went outside for 30 minutes and took a walk.
I've suffered from insomnia periodically since I was 10. This was the worst it's ever been for me, and I'm still not totally over it, but it's getting better! Going to bed at the same time each night was pretty hard at first. I was used to going to bed when I felt tired, sometime between 11pm-3am, sleeping in, and taking naps during the day. That's all pretty counterproductive to getting a good nights sleep. You might want to give it a shot ^.^