Comments | tamago23: So I'm not dying, I'm just tired.

tamago23

So I'm not dying, I'm just tired.

Jul 15, 2009 14:09

Since everyone egged me on so much I decided to go to the doctor even at the risk of looking like a doof, and my respirologist was nice enough to see me this afternoon for a few minutes. I went in and ran down the facts: been feeling short of breath for days now, Symbicort not helping other than the very first time I took it, pneumonia last month. ( Read more... )

2 week veggie challenge!!1!, stinkin asthma

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50_ft_queenie July 15 2009, 19:07:55 UTC

I know you're really committed to co-sleeping and I respect that, but maybe it's time to rethink that if your lack of sleep is so severe that it's making it hard for you to breathe and causing you to be exhausted all the time. M has sleep apnea and I've seen how long-term sleep deprivation wreaks havoc on health and energy levels.

Your family needs you to be healthy and rested, and you need you to be healthy and rested.

tamago23 July 16 2009, 17:46:55 UTC

I'll be blunt - it isn't so much the baby, it's Frolic. When he was away during almost all of June, I'd keep the baby up until midnight and then the baby would sleep in until 10 AM. (Gavin wakes up around 8:30 AM but he's perfectly happy playing Nintendo and eating snacks that I set out for him before I went to bed.) I'd be in bed by 2 AM because I was so tired, and asleep within 15 minutes, and even though the baby would wake me up for a few nursing sessions, I was still able to get a good 7 hours of sleep throughout the night, and then another couple of hours when I nap with the baby in the afternoon ( ... )

50_ft_queenie July 17 2009, 02:52:37 UTC

Good, I hope he respects it, cause chronic lack of sleep and breathing problems combined are going to do a real number on your health otherwise.

*hugs*

misslynx July 15 2009, 19:08:16 UTC

The sucky thing about all this is that ( ... )

tamago23 July 16 2009, 17:50:10 UTC

I've been using self-hypnosis to knock myself out for the last few nights, which seems to be working well. It's really more an issue that having Frolic around again has been messing up the good sleep schedule that I had going during June. :/ I've made it very clear to him that things need to change.

I wouldn't consider sleep meds even if Connor wasn't in bed, TBH. I was on them for years and I'm not willing to risk the side effects anymore. They tend to fuck up your ability to sleep naturally even worse than it already is, and long-term addiction risk, and potential mood disturbances, and there's just a lot of reasons I wouldn't be willing to use sleep meds.

jinxeh13 July 15 2009, 21:06:12 UTC

Yeaaahhh, that "sleep" stuff can really fuck with you. The missing it part, anyway.