Log #67 (I'm So Sleepy!)

Remember those times when you stayed up too late with your friends talking until the sun came up?  Or maybe not quite that late, but still very late.   Remember how tired you felt when you finally decided it was time to get some sleep; how weighed down your body felt.

Now contrast that with how energized you felt after having a solid night of sleep; how you felt like you could run a marathon and not be tired.

Now combine the two where you get eight hours of sleep (all be it interuppted), but when you get up you still feel like you haven't slept at all.

Of all the many things I'm going through, this is

 one of them.  Now you may say, "Well, if he were more active he wouldn't feel that way."  I'll admit that when you are in good shape and your body is healthy, you can get less sleep than you should and still feel energized, but I'm even more tired after being active.  No matter what I do, I feel tired.  Some of that is attributed to the medication, but medication wears off and my tiredness doesn't.

There are times when I just can't stay awake another minute and so I take a nap.  Within minutes I'm in a deep and heavy sleep.  An hour or two later when I wake up, I'm still so tired it feels like I'm in a stuper and looking at the world through a long dark tube.  I should feel refreshed in some way, but I don't.  This too, I've had a problem with for quite some time, but there has always been a long while between episodes.  Now it's becoming more of a problem and I think the medications I take for the pain plus the Lyrica are turning a small problem into a bigger one.


Here is a little write up about this aspect of fibromyalgia:


Tiredness

It’s common for people with fibromyalgia to feel extremely tired.  You may have been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. There’s a lot of cross-over between the two conditions and many people have both.1

You may feel very tired after doing an activity, for example, chores or sports. Or you may suddenly feel tired for no reason at all. People with fibromyalgia often say they feel very tired when they wake up, as if they’d had no benefit from their sleep. Unrefreshing sleep is common for people with fibromyalgia.

Feeling very tired can be extremely frustrating. People with fibromyalgia say they find it hard to plan their day, because they don’t know if they’ll have the energy to carry out their plans. Or they have to choose between activities, because they know they won’t have the energy to do more than one.2 

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