[wi_fighter]

I finally managed to get some sleep last night, but I just feel sluggish today. Two cups of coffee haven't made any difference. Son needs me to take him to town to make up the bowling that he missed on Saturday and to get a hair cut. I just want to hibernate. Or at least stay home and get my work caught up and not have constant demands put on my time.

[lenjan]

I can tell you that hibernating ain't all it's cracked up to be -- that's what I've been doing for quite awhile now. It's overrated. But then again, I'm jobless and live alone. If I were in your shoes, I think I'd run for the nearest hotel for a few days!

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{wi-fighter}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} I hope things will start looking up for you soon.

Candy

[wi_fighter]

I took a half hour nap instead of hibernating. It was almost as good.

[Sabrina]

20 cups of coffee make no difference to me!!

Sluggish I understand. With all you have been going through lately, I imagine you are entiltled to feel sluggish!!

Reallly hope that it lets up for you soon!! (If that is possible, in other words - I understand!!)

[Azalysa]

I've been concerned with how sluggish I am today as well - to the point of my co-workers asking if I'm ok. Is there something in the atmosphere?

I drank a LARGE coke at break which didn't even touch the sluggishness. I've just been coming home from my "big 4 hours" at work and want to dive into bed.

Maybe I need a playmate. This time last year I felt the best I had felt in a long, long time. BUT I was eating VERY healthfully and taking weekly ballroom dancing lessons. Let me tell you, those are quite a workout.

Ok, rambling away here.

Sluggishness - be gone!

[wi_fighter]

Sabrina, I know you understand. You understand all too well. My daughter's struggling in school and my son is giving me attitude, and I want a break. I only have to make it through the next 48 hours and then they're off to their dad's.

[wi_fighter]

I definitely need some outside activities to get me motivated to push through work so I can get away from the computer and have fun.

I was going to sign up for a baseball umpiring clinic this Saturday so I could help out with my son's summer softball league, but it was cancelled due to lack of interest.

[(JD)]

i'm sorry that you're having a hard time. seems like one of us is up and the other down. we've got to synchronize ourselves. xoxoxopat

[wi_fighter]

I'm feeling better today. Thank goodness. I stayed in bed for 10-1/2 hours until I felt awake enough to get up. I've been so sleep deprived this last week that I guess I needed one day of extra long rest.

[wisewoman]

mmmmm, bed, sleep. Sounds good to me.

[wi_fighter]

Let me tell you, it felt as good as it sounds.

Amazing what a decent nights' sleep will do for your frame of mind.

[wi_fighter]

Lexapro is working on the mental side of things, but I'm so tired again that I still feel awful.

Sitting here for hours on end, listening to difficult dictator's work is wearing me down. I don't know how much more throat clearing, booger snorting, mumbling, yawning, bad grammar, um's, ah's, and "the patient, the patient, um, the patient, uh uh uh, the patient comes, uh, the patient is, uh, the patient comes in, ahem cough snort, the patient comes in today. Nevermind, scratch that. The patient comes in today" I can handle.

I'M GOING TO EXPLODE!!!!

[Sabrina]

LOL! Sorry wi_fighter - I know you are not feeling in a funny mood, but the mental picture of some really old doctor scratching just had me burst out laughing.

There is one frustration with meds that I could never come to grips with and that was while mentally things might have improved, physically things hardly ever did. I am consistently tired despite sleeping. (Dream filled sleep, but it is still sleep right?).

Have you thought about a blood test to see if there are any other underlying problems that might be causing your tiredness? Or perhaps, among other things, you are a bit bored with your work?

Please don't explode - you might then need to be ... that ... patient! Yikes!

Take good care, ok?

[wi_fighter]

I can't forget the hard candy sucking either. I wonder if anyone knows how annoying it is to hear hard candy clicking around on teeth and hearing the slurp afterwards.

Yeah, definitely don't want to be a patient with some of these doctors. If their patient care is as "good" as their dictation skills, I'd rather suffer a slow, painful death. LOL

I've already had my thyroid checked. No problems there.

It's definitely job burnout or, more specifically, particular doctor burnout.

Dream filled sleep is actually the kind you want. That's REM sleep where your brain is filing the new info you took in that day. It's when you don't dream that you aren't sleeping deeply enough for your brain to revive and you end up forgetful and not able to concentrate. I've been having really bizarre dreams this week, but I seem to need to stay in bed for 10 hours or more, and even then it's a struggle to drag myself out of bed.

[Sabrina]

Hmm - my worry is about these darn dreams that seem to go on all night, about every little thing I am worrying about and that is not even mentioning the night terrors. I wake up so tired from my head being so busy at night. Know what I mean? And I know what you mean about dragging out of bed. I have been catching an extra 10 or so minutes every morning this last week but the 10 minutes seem to get longer and longer .......

Oh - sleep and work issues! Pah!

We should chuck it all and go out for a night on the town!!

[Lexicon78]

I can so relate wi_fighter! For the last 3 weeks sleep has been such a fantasy for me! Recently I have begun to start sleeping again, though. I think last night was the 2nd night I had good sleep! Well, it really wasn't night but oh well...it was sleep!

Hang in there. I'm sure things will get better for you soon!

[wi_fighter]

I really wish I didn't have to fight what seems to be a natural sleep/wake cycle of something equivalent to a 2nd shift job. I do my best work in the evening, sleep better if I'm up until around midnight and let myself wake up naturally around 8:00 or 9:00. If I go to bed earlier than that, I just lay there and toss and turn, but with the kids needing me to be up with them about 6:00.......I need to force myself to bed earlier so I'm not quite so exhausted when 6:00 rolls around. It just doesn't work though. I went back to bed after taking my daughter to school on Tuesday and didn't get up until 10:30, and that was only because the phone rang.

[wi_fighter]

Well, I'm still but I decided not to fight not being able to sleep, got up at 3:30, was working by 4:00, and I've put in almost half a day's work so far. I'm no more tired than if I'd laid in bed another 3 hours wishing I could sleep, and I wouldn't have even started working for at least another two hours from now. So I'm waaaaaay ahead. Of course, I'll probably be ready for bed by 6:00. LOL Nope, can't. The season opener of Degrassi is on tonight. Gotta get my fix.

[heartspace]

Wading through molasses, right? Horrible feeling. Sounds like you need to spoil yourself. While you have commitments you're obliged to fulfil don't forget to take some time out - for you! Take the phone off the hook, light some candles and put on some music and settle into a nice warm bubble bath. Then off to bed to watch some trashy tv or read a book or maybe flick through a magazine if you feel you can't concentrate on a book. I so know what you're going through, hon.
{{{wi_fighter}}}

[wi_fighter]

Yes, wading through molasses, or quicksand, or wearing a heavy coat that weighs you down so you can't move.

I'm feeling better. Lexapro has kicked in. No more Celexa for me.

My son and I worked on the yard this weekend, cleaning up the leaves, trimming back one of the bushes, and mowing the yard. It looks sooooo much better. I didn't get it mowed before the snow flew, so it was really shaggy.

Now I want to rent a leaf shredder and reduce the pile of leaves and twigs. After three years, it's almost up to the garage window. Yikes! I need some mulch anyway, to fill in the bare spots under some of the shrubs where the grass won't grow because it's too shady. The mulch around the tree out front has all disintegrated too. Looks tacky with the landscape fabric showing. Blech.

[Sabrina]

I don't have weather like yours - never even seen snow - but I also did some gardening this weekend. Husband bought me some plants and that got me going ... Don't normally enjoy it but it was therapeutic. And the garden looks nice .. for once.

I enjoy reading the "I feel better" tone in your posts!

[wi_fighter]

I'm enjoying feeling better too.

I really felt the need to get the yard cleaned up. Some new people moved in next door over the weekend. The place was looking awfully trashy after the winter. Didn't want them to think I'm as lazy as I really am. LOL

Now, if I could just get the energy to tackle the house. It's so awful, I have no idea where to start. It's going to take at least a day of hard work to notice even the slightest dent in the mess.

[Sabrina]

Hey - I'm pretty good with the inside of my house - forever on the move when I am not lethargic. Might cost a few - but I can always fly over and give you a hand!

[wi_fighter]

Nah, it'd be a huge mess again within a week.

My mom is having a yard sale the end of May. I'm going to convince the kids to part with some of their stuff since it means they'll make some money in the process. We have more stuff than we have room.

I might have to make a few weekend trips to my mom's to get everything there that I want to get off my hands. I might spend more in gas than I'll earn from the sale since it's a 3 hour trip. At least I'll get out of the house and spend time with family in the process.