Chronic insomnia is one of those things that very few people truly understand. I mean, we've all had sleepless nights, right? You get up the next morning and drink an extra cup of coffee and you soldier through. That's because most people's experience of insomnia is intermittent at worse, and more often occasional ( Read more... )

I'm getting really sick of the health stuff recently. I just spent the last 3 days with a stiff back and neck such that I could barely turn my head for the pain and I couldn't sleep comfortably at all. I hate begging my doctor for medication, but I think I'm going to call him and see if I can get a muscle relaxer. It's a little better this ( Read more... )

So I took yesterday off and went to the doctor. He agreed that my migraines and my increased difficulty sleeping and coccoonishness are related to my increased stress what with the job search and having to move and all that. We're going to try upping my dosage of Wellbutrin, and seeing if that works before we talk about changing medications ( Read more... )

So my body has decided that since I have clearly told it it can rest now, it will take full advantage of the situation. In other words, I like NAPS!

So last Thursday I woke up feeling totally run down and exhausted despite getting a decent amount of sleep. I'd been feeling burned out for awhile, as October had been a very busy month for me and I had taken a lot of extra weekend shifts for people. So I decided to take a sick day. Apparently, this made my body go "Ooh! You mean I can *rest* ( Read more... )

Marcus Aurelius is inconsistent. At one point he says "nothing is evil which is according to nature" and barely 2 pages later he says of the body and soul "the one is intelligence and deity; the other is earth and corruption." As if the human "vessel" is not "according to nature." I feel cheated. I thought these ancient classic philosophers ( Read more... )

State of the Gwyn: So after what pretty much everyone seems to agree was a migraine Tuesday morning, I stayed in the nice dark warm bed for an extra couple of hours and went in to work around noon, when the headache seemed to have died down. Unfortunately, as soon as I got to work with the bright florescent lights it started up again, and I was ( Read more... )

So I get these headaches, maybe once or twice a month, usually. They're not migraines in the 'oh my god if I move my head I'm going to vomit' sense that a lot of my friends with true migraines have described, but they're worse than regular headaches. Pounding ache in what feels like my whole head and sensitivity to light and any kind of loud or ( Read more... )

Last Thursday I submitted two prescriptions for refill. First stage in this debacle is that Walgreens never called or emailed me to let me know that my refill requests had been denied, so I assumed everything was fine. It took me until Monday to get over there to pick them up, at which point I was told I needed to call the doctor because he'd ( Read more... )

So, the 5 lbs I put on during the week after my wisdom teeth where I was doing next to nothing and subsisting on a diet of pudding, popsicles, and applesauce? Apparently I've managed to lose them almost as quickly as I gained them. Yay!! Now I'm just as fat as I was before the extraction, and no fatter. I can live with that.