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Post by inger on Sept 4, 2023 12:46:26 GMT -5
Sarah tried Trazadone without success. Ambien worked for her mostly, but even then she had to supplement it with either alcohol 🍷 or Benadryl. For a long time, I was sleeping only a couple hours a night, which was affecting my work. I was prescribed Estazolam, which I tried once and was rendered without any sleep at all, not even an hour. I stopped taking it immediately, not just because it was ineffective but because it is a Benzodiazepine, which can be life threatening to get off of once you've become accustomed to it. Somehow misery loves company. It’s sort of nice to know that it’s not just me. My doctor is talking about wanting me to talk to a sleep therapist. Hell, I sing one the National Anthem at this point… |
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Post by rizzuto on Sept 4, 2023 12:51:21 GMT -5
Somehow misery loves company. It’s sort of nice to know that it’s not just me. My doctor is talking about wanting me to talk to a sleep therapist. Hell, I sing one the National Anthem at this point… If I could afford to get an hour massage right before going to bed, I'm thinking I would sleep like a baby, which is another type of happy ending.  |
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Post by inger on Sept 5, 2023 8:46:21 GMT -5
The Saga of inger and Trazadone, Chapter 4? 5? 6? No matter. Here it is.
First I made sure I took the stuff. 3/4 of a pill. 7.5 mg. About an hour after I take it, I can feel a bit of drowsiness. No drunkenness so I figure I’ll get in bed. Nope. Almost an hour. Fidgeting. Looking out the window.
So I get up and take the last quarter pill. Hang out watching You Tube vids on the tube for a half hour. Drowsy. To bed. Sleep. 5 hours of glorious, precious, relaxing sleep before the dogs tell me it’s time to get up.
I think I’ve made a discovery. Tonight I’m going to try taking 1/2 pill and then waiting about 1/2 hour or so to take the rest. That way it won’t hit me all at once.
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Post by kaybli on Sept 5, 2023 9:07:28 GMT -5
The Saga of inger and Trazadone, Chapter 4? 5? 6? No matter. Here it is. First I made sure I took the stuff. 3/4 of a pill. 7.5 mg. About an hour after I take it, I can feel a bit of drowsiness. No drunkenness so I figure I’ll get in bed. Nope. Almost an hour. Fidgeting. Looking out the window. So I get up and take the last quarter pill. Hang out watching You Tube vids on the tube for a half hour. Drowsy. To bed. Sleep. 5 hours of glorious, precious, relaxing sleep before the dogs tell me it’s time to get up. I think I’ve made a discovery. Tonight I’m going to try taking 1/2 pill and then waiting about 1/2 hour or so to take the rest. That way it won’t hit me all at once. Glad you got some Zs inger! |
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Post by inger on Sept 5, 2023 9:23:11 GMT -5
The Saga of inger and Trazadone, Chapter 4? 5? 6? No matter. Here it is. First I made sure I took the stuff. 3/4 of a pill. 7.5 mg. About an hour after I take it, I can feel a bit of drowsiness. No drunkenness so I figure I’ll get in bed. Nope. Almost an hour. Fidgeting. Looking out the window. So I get up and take the last quarter pill. Hang out watching You Tube vids on the tube for a half hour. Drowsy. To bed. Sleep. 5 hours of glorious, precious, relaxing sleep before the dogs tell me it’s time to get up. I think I’ve made a discovery. Tonight I’m going to try taking 1/2 pill and then waiting about 1/2 hour or so to take the rest. That way it won’t hit me all at once. Glad you got some Zs inger! m I would have gone back to bed, but the dogs are crazy wild this morning. It’s only 43 outside (well it was. 50 now. But we’ve been leaving the window fans on all night, so it was only 60 in here this morning when I got up. Not turning the heat on yet. I’ve opened the drapes and the sun is warming us up steadily. They tore stuffing out of their settee that they “own”. For a moment I thought one of them had peed on it, but when I went to clean it up it was obvious the poor girl had thrown up a bit, sort oh over the edge, so it was mostly liquid clear stuff on the floor. Easy clean up and she only got a little of it in the edge of the cushion. This settee is becoming a duct tape settee. I’ll use up a roll patching it. If we start showing the house I’m going to have to cover the thing with something while we’re out. I don’t want to replace until they stop tearing it up. |
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Post by inger on Sept 5, 2023 9:39:05 GMT -5
With my medical problem of insomnia possibly coming to a conclusion, Ruthie’s latest struggle is with altitude sickness and the resultant lack of oxygen at 7,600 feet. Since both live it here, I’m pushing her to understand the severity of the problem. Pulmonary or cerebral edema are the worst possible scenario. She could stay up here if she tethered herself to a tube much of the time.
So we are exploring our options to move down out of the valley to the next level at about 6,400 or so. Moving again? I can’t believe it, but possibly so. Health is too precious. We’re going to the area where we’d like to go and visiting some friends that are camping at a nearby state park (Lathrop State Park, a place we’ve driven by dozens of times but never visited).
She’s going to take oxygen monitor and a couple small tanks of oxygen with her in case she needs them. We want to see how she fares with that drop in elevation. According to my calculations she should have around 10% more oxygen available there, which might be enough to help her a lot. Or not.
Being that close, we’ll schedule a drive by look-see at the three places in the development tgat woukd be potential candidates for the new inger homestead. Sigh. One thing about that area is that although it’s a drop of 500-1,200 feet the climate has some similarity to the one here. It doesn’t get any hotter, sometimes a bit cooler than here. Though it has cold winters, they aren’t as cold as it is here. We’d actually have grass! But not enough to kill this old man mowing, which would be infrequent. And more play room for our sweet little Staffordshire Terrier-our-stuff up mixes.
I’m almost looking forward to it, as much as I love it here. Might as well be positive…
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Post by inger on Sept 5, 2023 14:54:47 GMT -5
Glad you got some Zs inger! m I would have gone back to bed, but the dogs are crazy wild this morning. It’s only 43 outside (well it was. 50 now. But we’ve been leaving the window fans on all night, so it was only 60 in here this morning when I got up. Not turning the heat on yet. I’ve opened the drapes and the sun is warming us up steadily. They tore stuffing out of their settee that they “own”. For a moment I thought one of them had peed on it, but when I went to clean it up it was obvious the poor girl had thrown up a bit, sort oh over the edge, so it was mostly liquid clear stuff on the floor. Easy clean up and she only got a little of it in the edge of the cushion. This settee is becoming a duct tape settee. I’ll use up a roll patching it. If we start showing the house I’m going to have to cover the thing with something while we’re out. I don’t want to replace until they stop tearing it up. Update on this horrendous settee the dogs have. It’s become an embarrassment. It’s been one for a while, but I’m going to got to a pet store and look for one of those guaranteed indestructible dog beds that sits up on short legs and have an aluminum frame. I’ll get kne where they both fit. They cost about $200. I’ll probably get (or order) a second cover so we can keep it washed and just trade them off when needed. Little shitz. Part of my outdoor project is working on areas they’ve dug up and damaged. The rest is buttoning up for winter and additional rodent preventative… I took a nice long break because I’m temporarily on a med that I’m supposed to limit my exposure to the sun. I was laying on my back with the sun directly overhead for nearly a half hour trying remove a screw from under the porch that only an idiot would have located as it was. In addition, as are most things around the varied hard demon struck again. Running to grab different tools from screw to screw to ! Here’s a bolt. I think the pile of tools I’ve assembled is going to get me by, other than a sledge that I need to knock out the last screw so I’m not laying on a back and creep-turning a screw driver for another 1/2 hour. Hope I don’t ruin the blasted deck. I might decide to flip all the boards. This think looks like is 100 years old. The previous owned with his three 170 pound dogs toenails have dented the boards insanely. The bottoms of the boards look perfect. This is why my projects take forever. They grow as I go along…that, and searching for tools, although this time I’ve got them in their own little shed and well displayed ot sorted. Now if I could just remember where I sat them down five minutes ago… 🤓 |
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Post by Renfield on Sept 5, 2023 16:19:34 GMT -5
With my medical problem of insomnia possibly coming to a conclusion, Ruthie’s latest struggle is with altitude sickness and the resultant lack of oxygen at 7,600 feet. Since both live it here, I’m pushing her to understand the severity of the problem. Pulmonary or cerebral edema are the worst possible scenario. She could stay up here if she tethered herself to a tube much of the time. So we are exploring our options to move down out of the valley to the next level at about 6,400 or so. Moving again? I can’t believe it, but possibly so. Health is too precious. We’re going to the area where we’d like to go and visiting some friends that are camping at a nearby state park (Lathrop State Park, a place we’ve driven by dozens of times but never visited). She’s going to take oxygen monitor and a couple small tanks of oxygen with her in case she needs them. We want to see how she fares with that drop in elevation. According to my calculations she should have around 10% more oxygen available there, which might be enough to help her a lot. Or not. Being that close, we’ll schedule a drive by look-see at the three places in the development tgat woukd be potential candidates for the new inger homestead. Sigh. One thing about that area is that although it’s a drop of 500-1,200 feet the climate has some similarity to the one here. It doesn’t get any hotter, sometimes a bit cooler than here. Though it has cold winters, they aren’t as cold as it is here. We’d actually have grass! But not enough to kill this old man mowing, which would be infrequent. And more play room for our sweet little Staffordshire Terrier-our-stuff up mixes. I’m almost looking forward to it, as much as I love it here. Might as well be positive… Good luck, inger. |
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Post by inger on Sept 5, 2023 16:26:43 GMT -5
With my medical problem of insomnia possibly coming to a conclusion, Ruthie’s latest struggle is with altitude sickness and the resultant lack of oxygen at 7,600 feet. Since both live it here, I’m pushing her to understand the severity of the problem. Pulmonary or cerebral edema are the worst possible scenario. She could stay up here if she tethered herself to a tube much of the time. So we are exploring our options to move down out of the valley to the next level at about 6,400 or so. Moving again? I can’t believe it, but possibly so. Health is too precious. We’re going to the area where we’d like to go and visiting some friends that are camping at a nearby state park (Lathrop State Park, a place we’ve driven by dozens of times but never visited). She’s going to take oxygen monitor and a couple small tanks of oxygen with her in case she needs them. We want to see how she fares with that drop in elevation. According to my calculations she should have around 10% more oxygen available there, which might be enough to help her a lot. Or not. Being that close, we’ll schedule a drive by look-see at the three places in the development tgat woukd be potential candidates for the new inger homestead. Sigh. One thing about that area is that although it’s a drop of 500-1,200 feet the climate has some similarity to the one here. It doesn’t get any hotter, sometimes a bit cooler than here. Though it has cold winters, they aren’t as cold as it is here. We’d actually have grass! But not enough to kill this old man mowing, which would be infrequent. And more play room for our sweet little Staffordshire Terrier-our-stuff up mixes. I’m almost looking forward to it, as much as I love it here. Might as well be positive… Good luck, inger. m Thanks buddy. I feel so fortunate to have a roof overhead, and moving is a pain of course but… we’ve found a place we find attractive, though we haven’t been inside yet. |
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Post by desousa on Sept 5, 2023 17:05:58 GMT -5
With my medical problem of insomnia possibly coming to a conclusion, Ruthie’s latest struggle is with altitude sickness and the resultant lack of oxygen at 7,600 feet. Since both live it here, I’m pushing her to understand the severity of the problem. Pulmonary or cerebral edema are the worst possible scenario. She could stay up here if she tethered herself to a tube much of the time. So we are exploring our options to move down out of the valley to the next level at about 6,400 or so. Moving again? I can’t believe it, but possibly so. Health is too precious. We’re going to the area where we’d like to go and visiting some friends that are camping at a nearby state park (Lathrop State Park, a place we’ve driven by dozens of times but never visited). She’s going to take oxygen monitor and a couple small tanks of oxygen with her in case she needs them. We want to see how she fares with that drop in elevation. According to my calculations she should have around 10% more oxygen available there, which might be enough to help her a lot. Or not. Being that close, we’ll schedule a drive by look-see at the three places in the development tgat woukd be potential candidates for the new inger homestead. Sigh. One thing about that area is that although it’s a drop of 500-1,200 feet the climate has some similarity to the one here. It doesn’t get any hotter, sometimes a bit cooler than here. Though it has cold winters, they aren’t as cold as it is here. We’d actually have grass! But not enough to kill this old man mowing, which would be infrequent. And more play room for our sweet little Staffordshire Terrier-our-stuff up mixes. I’m almost looking forward to it, as much as I love it here. Might as well be positive… I wish nothing but the best for you and Ruthie. Good luck on finding a place to live that will have a positive influence on your health. So important to be comfortable where you live. |
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Post by inger on Sept 6, 2023 21:28:56 GMT -5
Geez. I slept not a wink, even though I tried my plan. 1/2 pill, 45 minutes or so later, took the second 1/2 of the pill. I went back to bed after taking care of the dogs, I slept from maybe 7:30 to 1:00. I am in absolute misery today from this. Maybe I’m thinking too much about the housing situation…
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Post by kaybli on Sept 6, 2023 21:30:34 GMT -5
Geez. I slept not a wink, even though I tried my plan. 1/2 pill, 45 minutes or so later, took the second 1/2 of the pill. I went back to bed after taking care of the dogs, I slept from maybe 7:30 to 1:00. I am in absolute misery today from this. Maybe I’m thinking too much about the housing situation… Talk to your doctor inger. Trazadone is clearly not working for you. |
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Post by inger on Sept 6, 2023 22:15:53 GMT -5
Geez. I slept not a wink, even though I tried my plan. 1/2 pill, 45 minutes or so later, took the second 1/2 of the pill. I went back to bed after taking care of the dogs, I slept from maybe 7:30 to 1:00. I am in absolute misery today from this. Maybe I’m thinking too much about the housing situation… Talk to your doctor inger. Trazadone is clearly not working for you. I called today and was told that he was out sick (you’d think they could fix themselves wouldn’t you?). they girl said that he had no openings until the 18th. I nicely told her that I was a diabetic and my toes, which are being treated for a possible infection that I was told could lead to amputation (liar liar pants afire). Then she told me if I call in right at 7AM tgdy generally reserve a couple of times in case someone has a need before the weekend. I’m going to make that call. I also want to get his input on how much the move downhill may help Ruthie. As I told you in an earlier post, I already determined that science (real science, not the kind our fearless “leaders” use) that she wound get +/- 20% more oxygen. I can’t see how that would be a bad thing… Tonight I plan to swipe one of Ruth’s Quentapine tabs, 50mg. Remember out crazy visitor, Trudy? That’s what she takes. I might as well experiment. I am the walrus… I am the egg man. Cucucachoo! … |
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Post by rizzuto on Sept 7, 2023 7:51:18 GMT -5
Talk to your doctor inger. Trazadone is clearly not working for you. I called today and was told that he was out sick (you’d think they could fix themselves wouldn’t you?). they girl said that he had no openings until the 18th. I nicely told her that I was a diabetic and my toes, which are being treated for a possible infection that I was told could lead to amputation (liar liar pants afire). Then she told me if I call in right at 7AM tgdy generally reserve a couple of times in case someone has a need before the weekend. I’m going to make that call. I also want to get his input on how much the move downhill may help Ruthie. As I told you in an earlier post, I already determined that science (real science, not the kind our fearless “leaders” use) that she wound get +/- 20% more oxygen. I can’t see how that would be a bad thing… Tonight I plan to swipe one of Ruth’s Quentapine tabs, 50mg. Remember out crazy visitor, Trudy? That’s what she takes. I might as well experiment. I am the walrus… I am the egg man. Cucucachoo! … Hope you get things straightened out, Inger. Maybe taking a trip for a couple of days to a lower elevation would provide some anecdotal information for Ruthie? |
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Post by inger on Sept 7, 2023 14:05:44 GMT -5
I called today and was told that he was out sick (you’d think they could fix themselves wouldn’t you?). they girl said that he had no openings until the 18th. I nicely told her that I was a diabetic and my toes, which are being treated for a possible infection that I was told could lead to amputation (liar liar pants afire). Then she told me if I call in right at 7AM tgdy generally reserve a couple of times in case someone has a need before the weekend. I’m going to make that call. I also want to get his input on how much the move downhill may help Ruthie. As I told you in an earlier post, I already determined that science (real science, not the kind our fearless “leaders” use) that she wound get +/- 20% more oxygen. I can’t see how that would be a bad thing… Tonight I plan to swipe one of Ruth’s Quentapine tabs, 50mg. Remember out crazy visitor, Trudy? That’s what she takes. I might as well experiment. I am the walrus… I am the egg man. Cucucachoo! … Hope you get things straightened out, Inger. Maybe taking a trip for a couple of days to a lower elevation would provide some anecdotal information for Ruthie? We’re heading out that way tomorrow. Ruth is going to monitor here pulse ox the entire trip and visit. I think it can give us an answer. If finances were better and I didn’t have a ton to do around here, I stay out that way for a week or two… |
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