Category: depression

Painsomnia continues and a potential problem

Since increasing my new blood pressure med, I have had some rapid heartbeats and sometimes it is pounding. Today, it happened three times. So I am holding my dose tomorrow morning and calling the doctor’s office. I hope they are open but it might be closed as New Years falls on a Saturday this year. I might have to page the on call person.

I woke up several times during the night but after putting some diclofenac gel on my arm around 130am, I wasn’t in as much pain. I’ve been using it every six hours today and it has helped the muscles but not the top of my shoulder where it is boney. I have had a hard time with it today. I have to put on some more before bed.

I had dinner kind of late tonight because I let time get away from me. I wanted a grilled cheese, which would have been easy but I chose to have the last pot pie that I had, which took more than an hour. Takes an hour to heat up and then you got to wait like 20 minutes too cool off enough so you can eat it. It is worth it though. I had a cup of tea while waiting for it to heat up. I wanted a cup of chamomile. My stomach has been off which the new medicine might be the cause. It is kind of good that I eat something close to my night time meds as then I don’t get sick from the Latuda. If I don’t have enough food in my stomach, I get nauseous.

My sister is funny. She is having a party for New Year’s so she said she will send me an Uber to pick me up. LOL I live in the same house. I just have to go down two flights of stairs. I don’t know if I will go. Depends on how much pain I am in and how much sleep I get tonight. I keep waking up at the same hours every single night. I started sleeping with a pillow and that only helps so much.

I wanted to go to the grocery store today but I was too tired and feeling weird so I didn’t go. My brother in law bought me my essentials that I needed. My coffee came so I am set with that for a while. I just hope I can sleep tonight. I really need a good night’s rest. Waking up several times a night is just making me crazy.

An update to things

I had PT last night. It was mostly dry needling and it helped so much. I still didn’t sleep well last night but that might have been because I woke up Mon at 11pm and never went back to sleep except for about a 2 hour nap before PT. I have been posting animal pictures because I have been too tired to write something. Pain has been awful. And sleep has been worse. I don’t know how to regulate my sleep at this point. I might have to do another all nighter and then sleep for a day or something.

I had a lot of knots in my muscles where I was dry needled. It was painful but it was a good pain. I have been putting heat on today whenever I can. I haven’t felt right today because the intermittent sleep I have had. I keep waking up in pain and having to move to settle it down and then I doze off in the sitting position, which hurts my neck and back.

PT was the only appointment I have this week. My therapist is on vacation and I don’t see my psychiatrist until the end of January. I have a lot of appointments in January. Nearly every week I have three appointments, sometimes two in one day. I am going to need sleep if I am to manage these appointments. Bladder issues are getting better with medication. Only thing that sucks is that taking the two tizanidine at night causes dry mouth which leads me to drinking a lot which leads to having to wake up in the middle of the night to pee.

Well I guess it is good that I haven’t tried to lift a 5lb weight in my hand and do bicep curls because I just did it without the weight and my muscle screamed at me. I only did about three curls before it started yelling. This sucks. I still cannot hold a 32 oz bottle so there is no way I can hold onto a 5lb weight. That is just asking for trouble. I want to build up muscles in my arms but it is so damn hard with this injury.

I just finished having dinner and I feel so tired all of a sudden. I feel like I can go to bed right now. I won’t because there is a good chance I will wake up around midnight and be up half the night. That has been how my sleep has been going. I sleep in increments of 2-4 hours. It has been like this since my hysterectomy. Maybe I should be taking melatonin again. I don’t know. I got to come up with some routine.

I’ve had no sleep again so here is an animal pic, puppy of bulldog