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Posted 1/1/2009 9:05 AM (GMT 0)
Boy am I getting tired of this. It is getting old to have this wacky sleeping schedule that seems to be my life now. I was awakened by the sound of .....oh hell I don't even know now, but I felt my left leg singing its painful praises and my left foot tingling and pins effect so I went in and took a bath. This of course made me even more sleepier and I almost went to sleep in the tub. But my brain prevailed and I was able to stay awake. Until............the cold air of my house hit me when I got out of the tub! Wide awake! Now as I lay here typeing this post I'm ready to go to sleep again and I think its time to try to sleep once more.

Woke up hubby in the process of getting some lotion for my dry hands and he said he would take the couch so that I could stretch out. but I didn't feel that was fair so I left him in bed and told him to go baclk to sleep. Anyway, gonna try to go back to sleep for awhile..

hugs

Your exhausted and exasperated friend,

Scarred
Posted 1/1/2009 9:23 AM (GMT 0)
me...I was rudely awakened by gunfire...stupid, stupid neighbors!. At least it didn't hit anyone. So been awake since midnight...woohoo! oh joy!...to wake up to pain and gunfire...May you all catch a better first glimpse of 2009 than I have...
Posted 1/1/2009 12:05 PM (GMT 0)
Scarred,Im sorry you couldnt sleep. I understand what your going through. I hope your pain lessens today and you can get some rest. Happy New Year.
Posted 1/1/2009 3:18 PM (GMT 0)
I did get a nap in from 3-5:50am and then again from 6:30am until 9 am so I guess that will have to do me for the day.
Posted 1/1/2009 9:18 PM (GMT 0)
I can't believe this post! I don't know whether to laugh, cry, scream or all of the above! rolleyes

I must have just missed everyone up in the middle of the night. There were a few of us in the chat I think around 2 or 3 am. I can't remember. But believe me in my case it wasn't from partying! I spent the evening as I do most New Year's Eve's in recent years - home alone. But I kind of have grown used to it (or so I tell myself) and last night was pretty resigned to watching all the tv fireworks and not thinking much about others when around 11:30pm my cousin calls from a restaurant where she and others are partying....she had good intentions but all it did was remind me of things I can no longer do.

So the emotional pain brought on more physical discomfort. Then in the middle of the night I was in the chat here. Finally went to bed around 4am or so, but was up and down and on one of the "up" trips noticed all these lights in the neighborhood. Firetrucks with their big bright spot lights and twirling red lights. No sirens, as they're usually pretty quiet when they come into the neighborhood at 6am! (it was still dark, of course) I couldn't see any fire.... was probably a Christmas tree or something but the ambulance came and looked was there for awhile. I used all of this as an excuse to stand at the kitchen counter and eat M&M's. Of cousre then I was wide awake. Turned on morning tv. i can't remember when I went back to bed but I just got up a couple of hours ago. I swear some of us are becoming vampires!

I have to admit, though, gunfire takes the prize!! smhair yeah

Now I sit here with heat wraps around my neck. Something is getting worse in my spine, and I'm afraid to even think about it. Scarred, those new symptoms in your feet are no fun either. I've had those for years, and it seems to slowly spread. I hope yours doesn't.

First day of the new year and I feel like I'm falling apart! sad

PaLady
Posted 1/1/2009 10:47 PM (GMT 0)

Do I ever remember those days! tongue  Wakening only to take another HOT bath, pain pill, whatever praying I'd fall asleep. Finally sitting in my recliner with heating pads draped all over me like a coat rack, resigned to the fact this was how the rest of my years would play out. I'd been prescribed everything under the sun for insomniacs, tried all the herbal remedies, melatonin, you name it I tried it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy....I was told it would help, several thousand $ and a couple dozen sessions, countless waken hours spent "practicing" the psychological aspect.

Then I had a Dr. prescribe me a medication called Baclofen. Told him he was crazier than horse dookie, after all I had taken every muscle relaxer known to man, or so I had thought. Speak with your doctor it just MAY do the trick. 10$ a month, peace at long, long last. This medication worked for ME. Just a simple suggestion from a simpleton.

Posted 1/1/2009 10:49 PM (GMT 0)
I was right up with all of you! The entire night!
I "went to bed" at 1am, but was awake until 7 or 8am. It was horrible. I usually don't sleep much, but in general, I at least fall asleep by 3 or 4am. I did finally fall asleep at 7/8, and slept till 12:30pm! argh. My house was quiet, so nothing outside was keeping me up (although the wind was howling like mad), only the pain. I came on here a few times, but no one else was around. Guess I should have come on later or gone into the chat (never been in there before). Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you all get some sleep tonight!

Skeye
Posted 1/1/2009 11:01 PM (GMT 0)
I have had baclofen in the ER before as an IV..... it can help. :) Glad you are getting some rest. I hardly ever do. I'm an extreme insomniac. I can go days without sleep.
Posted 1/1/2009 11:40 PM (GMT 0)
Well gang I am going to try something different tonight. When it is time for bed hubby will head for bed and I will head for the couch. Here I hope to gather some much needed sleep as I am now struggling to stay awake during the day and find myself falling asleep in the most awkward places (almost fell asleep doing dishes earlier today as I was waiting for the water to fill the sink and zoning out). Let me tell you, that would have been a horrible fall for sure since my kitchen floor is ceramic tiled! I did however find myself dozing off in the tub and if hubby would not have came in when he did to go to the bathroom I probably would have gone under the water and drowned. He was the one after that little stunt that came up with the idea of me sleeping on the couch tonight hoping that his poor insomniac wife could finally get some sleep. I believe my body is finally telling me its time to shut down for awhile and I am going to take full advantage of this opportunity to do so.

I agree with PA that the gunfire took the cake and I think undone you win the prize for best reason not to sleep this time LOL.

Your insomniac, but hoping to sleep tonight friend

Scarred
Posted 1/2/2009 2:40 AM (GMT 0)
Well my new years was boring, I was so depressed cause I wanted to go out with my friends but they wanted to get wasted and I dont drink and I didnt wanna hold them down. So I stayed home with my kids, which was good cause my 6 year old daughter and my neighbor stayed with me til midnight to celebrate with me and I gave my daughter and neighbor (who is 60 years old) pots and pans and we woke up the whole neighborhood lol. So I guess whoever was trying to sleep nearby wasnt asleep anymore. Then after my neighbor went home and my daughter was asleep I was aching so bad so I couldnt fall asleep either. So I decided to order a laptop from QVC which I know I really cant afford but I really need one cause sitting here at my desk is just not fun and uncomfortable especailly when Im in alot of pain. Then my neighbor called me around 3am to tell me that this weird bird I have been seeing for years was in her back yard, that I swear is a penguin, it always seems to be in the dark but this time it was under a porch light. So I snuck over, in my pajamas and in pain to see this penguin thing upclose, but it flys so it isnt a penguin after all. so I had an interesting night.

-hellokitty

ps, the penguin bird is actually what I beleive to be a night black crested heron.
Posted 1/2/2009 3:03 AM (GMT 0)
HelloKitty,

The pots & pans actually sounds like great fun! We just saw a Pileated Woodpecker in our yard the other day. It's also a strange sight as it is over a foot tall! It was amusing, kind of like your "penguin."

Well, I just wanted to comment about the laptop. I too bought a new laptop this year (at the end of September) as it is MUCH easier on my eyes b/c it has a lot of user friendly text & screen enlargement features. Laptop are great, especially for those of us with pain. Right now I'm typing this from my bed :-). But I want to send you a warning. I didn't buy an external hard drive at the time that I bought this computer because I didn't feel like I had another $200 to spend on it & thought the computer would be fine for a few months until I had put some money aside, since it was brand new & all. Well, my computer crashed in the beginning of December, a few days before my final exams in college, & I lost EVERYTHING (even though multiple computer technicians at Apple told me that my hard drive was fine & was intact & would not be lost or replaced, but I won't go into all that). Just a word of warning, if you are going to keep any important info on your laptop, you might want to look into getting some sort of a back up, even if it is just a flash drive. I lost 3 months worth of research for a huge term paper (which I'm now doing over again during my winter break, joy) and really important letters/correspondences between my docs & my school regarding my medical conditions. I just don't want you to have to go through what I went through!

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Scarred,

I hope you get some sleep! I'm off to bed shortly, hopefully I'll sleep too! Just one question. How did you get stuck with the couch?
turn smhair

Skeye
Posted 1/2/2009 3:34 AM (GMT 0)
Target has an 500 gig external hard drive on sale for less than $80.00.
Posted 1/2/2009 4:11 AM (GMT 0)
I can't sleeo for ore hen 4 hours at a time. it reallysucks but the worst thing is waking up before 3 am every morning and staying up for the rest of the day exceot for a nao or two, It realy suck to not be aboe to sleeoo thru the night but now that im 53 it happins to older people i heard . so I am getting used to it I go on line drink my coffee smoke and watch tv then whne hubby gts u p i go back to bed what a life It could always be worse i guess
Posted 1/2/2009 8:06 AM (GMT 0)
Skeye, Dagger, and others,

Please Please HELP me here with this laptop, (sorry I dont wanna take over this post cause it's here for scarred and not for me but yet I dont wanna start a new post on something thats not for pain, so please forgive me scarred) but I dont know anything about laptops in general or anything about this stuff, all I know is how to turn on a computer, get online, download and play games, and turn it off. Please tell me EXACTLY what I need for this laptop before I screw it up. It's a cheapy computer ($500) on QVC, because I didnt wanna spend alot on something I dont know if I'm even going to like, so I thought that maybe I'll get a cheap one and see how I like it and after I pay it off and wait about a year, then I'll invest on a very nice one (one with blueray of course). And also I love to download and play games from big fish games and I dont want to mess up anything on my new laptop from downloading so much. Also I'm planning on using it for college (which I'm taking my time to sign up for cause I'm scared that I'll get financial aid and mess it up cause I missed too many classes from health issues). So tell me what it is that I should buy to save things. This guy from bigfish told me something about downloading my games on a zip drive??? I'm not even sure what that is...

But anyways, my children are gone for the night, one is spending the night with my dad and the other with her friend, so I'm enjoying my time alone, but I'm so excited over my laptop that I cant sleep, it'll be here on the 6th, which means on the 6th I'm going to be waiting all day by the door, like I did when I ordered a bunch of clothes from babyphat (I never order myself nice things so it was exciting for me) I wouldn't even take a shower afraid that I would miss my package.I've been looking at cases for it but I'm not sure if thats really important or not, let me know. Thank you

-hellokitty

ps, I'm still waiting by the window looking for my pinguin but it's raining like crazy so I odnt think it's going to visit me tonight :(
Posted 1/2/2009 10:46 AM (GMT 0)
Wish I could offer you some advice Kitty but I'm still stupid when it comes to laptops. I've had mine for 4 years and I have crashed it at least 5 times. Good luck fixing your problem hun.

Hoping you have a LPD

Your friend in pain and in insomniac sleep (I was up at 2:30am ran out of Topamax)

Scarred
Posted 1/2/2009 11:57 AM (GMT 0)
Ive found when I was looking for laptops if you go to like Office Depot or Best Buy tell them what you are looking for and they usually find you a good deal. Only thing I know is you want lots of memory and hard drive space.
Posted 1/2/2009 12:44 PM (GMT 0)
Scarred, Im sorry you did not sleep well again last night. I have been sleeping good since the dr put me on percocet and phenegran. I hope you can get some rest today.

Your Friend,
Kara
Posted 1/2/2009 1:35 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Kara hun...I ran out of my script for my Topamax and that didn't help much. It was the only thing that really helped with the sleeping and I forgot that yesterday was a holiday so I ran out. I'll go get it today and that way we will try this again tonight. But on a brighter note what sleep I did get (went to sleep at 10:00pm and woke up at 2:30am so about 4 1/2 hours) was quite recuperative and I don't feel like I am dragging and groggy this morning. Instead I am bright eyed and bushy tailed and my pain is down today at a 8 and I haven't taken my morning meds yet which I have to take at 8:30am so that should bring it really down.

Have a LPD

Hugs

Scarred
Posted 1/2/2009 7:37 PM (GMT 0)
Scarred,I hope you are getting some rest today. I hope you got the topomax filled today. I was on topmax before it has the opposite effect on me it makes me wired instead of sleepy. My chest pain from costochronditis and back pain is severe today . Im at a 10/10. I have been using the heating pad for my chest its not helping much. I hope you have a LPD.
Posted 1/2/2009 8:33 PM (GMT 0)
Kitty,
I can't offer much help with computers either. Well, can't offer any to be truthful. But whenever I've seen them on QVC they usually say they have a special help line dedicated just for people who bought from them. If it was a name brand (I think most are from them) there should be help to answer questions. Plus you always have 30 days and you can send it back if you find too many problems. If you plan to use it for college maybe you could check with someone in the college's computer dept. and ask if you've got a machine that will work for college studies. (You may want to ask skeye about having computer problems in college - I think she just lost a bunch of her work!).

Since I don't know much about computers I'm always very careful what i download because I can't afford to get this fixed!

There's got to be someone here who knows more than me, that's for sure!

Good luck,
PaLady

Scarred - glad you got at least a little rest.
Posted 1/2/2009 11:07 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Scarred,

I'm glad you at least got a little sleep & are feeling better! I too forgot that yesterday was a holiday & was supposed to pick up some ambien, which I will try tonight. I was on the ambien cr for a little while, but it didn't do much for me, so now I'm trying the regular. Hopefully we'll both get some sleep tonight now that we have our meds.

Kitty,

I actually don't know much about computers either. I kind of learn as I go. My laptop is a mac, my first one. I've now had it for about 3 months & I still have no idea how to use a bunch of the special mac features on it lol. I just know the basics & what I've discovered fiddling around with it. Like PAlady said, there is usually some hotline you can call if you are in need of help. Your computer should also come with a user's manual -- either in print or on the computer itself. In terms of computers in college, you really only need to have Microsoft word, powerpoint, and excel (or their equivalents) and e-mail capabilities (unless you are taking art courses, then you may need other software, but I don't have any experience in that area). You may want to look on the webpage of whatever college you are going to take courses at, even if you are taking them online. They will probably have some information about computers & what you need/what they recommend and if they give you any free software (for example, my school will give you one free copy of microsoft word, etc during your entire time at the college, but they will also give you free updated virus protection software which you can re-install any time you want while you are a student). I hope your computer comes quickly! It's quite exciting!

Skeye
Posted 1/3/2009 6:19 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you for the replies. I guess this will just be a wait and see thing, thats why I didn't spend very much money on it. I bought a bag for it today because things seem to get broken and lost around here in my home. I'm having the worst time sleeping lately, I keep having the most craziest and weirdest dreams anyone can think of (I'm starting to question my sanity), like a few nights ago I had a dream that my dad became a mermaidman and took over the world, then I had a dream that I was shopping in a grocery store with my friend and she messed her pants, it really freaks me out, and it's so real it's freaky. I'm becoming scared to fall asleep, I really fight not falling asleep, which is killing me. I can hardly think during the day and I walk around like a zombie, and my words make no sense, like the other day when everyone was out shoveling the snow in their drive ways I kept saying they where "snuffling" the snow, then we had a frozen fog warning and I told everyone there was a frozen "frog" outside. I wonder if theres a med out there to suppress dreams, that would be wonderful. well everyone have a good day.

-hellokitty
Posted 1/3/2009 6:54 AM (GMT 0)
Kitty,
A zip drive is also called a flash drive, a pin drive, or a pen drive. It's a small rectangular device used for storage. You just pop it into a slot on the side or back of your computer. After you pop it in, you may get a box asking you what you want to do. That's where it gets a little more complicated. When you want to remove it, you have to click on an icon to safely remove it.

You can get a 1 Gig flash drive rather cheaply at Best Buy or Circuit City. They are frequently on sale. They sell larger sizes but they can get pricey. You can always ask the computer geeks at the store to show you how to use it. Sometimes they are really helpful.

You definitely want one (or two if you easily lose things) for collage. You can back up your important papers and it's especially useful when your printer runs out of ink or breaks the day before your paper is due. You can use it to work on or print your work in a different location.

I hope this helps a bit.
Posted 1/3/2009 1:04 PM (GMT 0)
Wonderful news!!!!! Last night I again slept on the couch, it being the only place in my entire house that I can get comfortable enough to get to sleep. (which upsets hubby since he paid a lot of money for the select comfort bed) I fell asleep around 10:15 and I woke up at 1:30 which I went in and took a hot bath. Crawled back on the couch and fell right back to sleep and did not wake up until 6:00am! YAY! I feel rested and ready to face the day. It finally happened where I was able to get some sleep.

I hope each of your nights were peaceful.

Your well rested, happy but still in pain friend,

Scarred
Posted 1/3/2009 1:32 PM (GMT 0)
Scarred,Im glad you got some sleep. I hope you have a LPD.
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