Sorry about that. I understand about the fibro. I have it too. I guess today is so-so, could be worse, could be better.

I am exhausted. My daughter had insomnia AGAIN last night. However, I think I made the connection but don't know what to do about it. At the end of June, my youngest sister and I drove up for a long weekend with our middle sister in the Dallas area (it's a long drive, not one you undertake regularly) for a sister's weekend. My husband took care of our daughter. I had been giving my daughter children's allergy medicine daily because she has bad allergies to pollen, ragweed, tree pollens, etc. Most of the time, she gets it daily because her allergies are bad. Sometimes the warm weather here will even make some plants go into a 2nd springlike state, even if one day last winter we had snow flurries (an event that happens here roughly every 10 years). So it's not the greatest area if you have outdoor allergies.

When I found out she hadn't had her allergy medication and was doing OK, I stopped giving it to her. I thought about it this morning and realized her sleep problems had really gotten awful since the end of June, and of course, they often tell adults to try Benadryl if you can't sleep. I had better buying my daughter a children's generic allergy medication from Walgreens that I thought was basically the equivalent of children's Claritin. I looked at the box today. It's the children's equivalent of Benadryl, and because of her age/weight, she recently went up a pill on the medication.

I just want to go back to giving her the allergy medication because I think she'd start sleeping better, but I'm not sure that's the best course if she is not having issues right now. Today, I will call the pediatrician's office and talk to the nurse. If the nurse doesn't know the answer, she will pass on the message to one of the doctors there and call back.

Now I feel like a bit of an idiot for not thinking of that sooner.

My husband is against giving her melatonin even though the pedi's office suggested that during a different phase of insomnia on the allergy medication (though that period, my daughter was making leaps & bounds academically, figuring out multiplication on her own, how to write numbers in different bases, jumping up to beyond 12th grade in her reading level). I was told that could cause her to have sleep issues, and the problem went away. My husband did not want to do the melatonin. But maybe they might suggest something like a melatonin taper, that wouldn't be permanent, and it would be better than giving her allergy medicine nightly.

I woke at 3 AM because of my daughter's issues. I took a long walk before the sun really came up (we have a heat advisory today & tomorrow from 8 to 8; they think the temperatures could hit record levels, even outside of Houston and closer to the coast). However, though the old part of La Porte is very close to the coast and there are some coastal houses, it is not a very big coast the city has (which is nice, few tourists go to the beach, better for the locals), so most of it is inland (our house about as far inland as the city goes. Before one hurricane (Hurricane Rita, the one everyone panicked about because it was on the heels of Katrina), my husband looked up our house on the sea level map and basically it is as high as it gets in this city (still not very high but enough that it doesn't flood or hasn't yet since it was built in 1964, fingers crossed). Rita was an awful hurricane (it did do destruction to many areas, just not this area as they thought it would); it didn't hit Houston despite predictions, the evacuation was not well planned; over 100 people died in the heat and in their cars trying to evacuate. I remember being in the car stuck in gridlock over 24 hours. That happened about a month after we moved into our house too, just as we'd finished unpacking. Welcome to your new home.

Don't know what I'll do today. I think after lunch, I will take my afternoon meds (Klonopin, propranolol & hydroxyzine) and lie down and try to sleep again. They are all anxiety meds and can have the effect of making you drowsy, but I can take them daily and still function, so we'll see. I usually just take 1/2 of the hydroxyzine pills, but I am prescribed 1/2 to 1 pill, and I might take the whole pill. I used to take a higher dose of hydroxyzine with Trazodone for sleep, and it mostly worked until it didn't.

I want to read more of my library book. I don't think I will be able to finish the book for my neighborhood book club because I've been on a nearly 100 person queue from this library book, meaning I can't re-check it, and if I don't finish, I have to return it, put in another hold request, and go back to the end of the queue. I think it was 4 or 5 months before my turn came around; I'd forget it all before then.