sleep apnea
These days my sleep disorder's getting significantly worse. It's producing some very interesting change I'm feeling:
- My thinking is much slower. I'm drinking a lot of coffee, to try and stay awake, but I'm more sluggish. It takes me much longer than it should to resolve problems or write code.
- I'm ravenously hungry. My metabolism seems to have sped up somehow. No matter how much I eat, I'm still hungry.
- Without putting too fine a point on it, my libido is raging.
When I sleep, I thrash around a lot. My doctor tells me that it's because my body knows it's oxygen-starved and it doesn't want to die... which makes some sense. My girlfriend hears this really base instinct and says I'm turning into a caveman. I think of myself as turning more feral. It's not a pleasant transformation.
The functional effect of this is that not only haven't I slept in weeks, what time I spend unconscious is starving my brain and body of oxygen. I don't know how much more of this I can take.
I suppose that's a cheery enough note to start with.