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I have chronic tension headaches that are acerbated by lack of sleep, so the weeks that I don't sleep I am left with a dull, throbbing pain across my forehead that doesn't go away. The headache doesn't respond to OTC meds and if the insomnia lasts long enough, it heads straight into a migraine.
I loathe these periods of insomnia. I don't feel like myself and my whole schedule is thrown off. I don't have enough energy to work out, which makes me feel guilty. I hate feeling guilty. I also don't have enough energy to keep my house at the sparkling clean standard that I normally hold myself to, which also makes me feel guilty. Did I mention I hate feeling guilty?
I try to sleep, I really do. The thing is, I am exhausted. I want to sleep. I just can't. I found this cartoon that perfectly sums up me trying to fall asleep at night.
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I have a doctors appointment on Saturday morning so I will try to arm-wrestle some sleeping pills out of my doctor. Trying to get narcotics in Kentucky is comparable to trying to win the lottery- in other words, almost freakin' impossible. You basically have to sign away your life, your unborn children, and your unborn children's children to get a prescription. I am, of course, exaggerating. But just barely. And that is just to get sleeping pills. Forget trying to get something for the headache.
All right, I will groggily climb down off my ranting soap box and go find something else to do.
Mrs Grumpus is signing out.
I am sad to hear that you are having those problems again to this point. I thought they were somewhat better :(. i wish I knew how to help out!
ReplyDeleteI wish I knew! I am not thrilled with the state of healthcare in Kentucky, I am going to try to get a referral to a neurologist in Cincinnati. It's a start.
DeleteThats going to be your best bet, have they ever done a sleep test on you just to watch your habbits? You should start a sleep journal with dates, times, pains ect and take it to the specialist.
ReplyDeleteI had an appointment yesterday, it actually went very well. It was like night and day from my last appointment. I think it's because she had my records from Oregon. Anyways, she gave me some good stuff and I slept like a baby last night! I am on the right track! Plus, she gave me a referral to a doctor in Cincinnati. We'll get there eventually. I could actually give them a very detailed pattern of my sleeping habits already :)
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