Sleep.......die from lack of.

Lori i hope you are alright. please look for help with this as taking too much medication is extremely dangerous. especially when sleep deprived so that your body is screaming for you to do literally anything to give it rest and therefore your rational judgment regarding how much is safe is severely compromised. please please talk to your doctor asap.
biiv

ditto,
mssumom, PLEASE take care and see your dr. Look after yourself

Dear Lori,

You need to call your Dr. in the morning as soon as the office opens. Tell them you have an emergency. If you can't be seen immediately make sure they know what is happening with you and ask them what to do.

Hugs,

Jan

Call your doc now or go to the hospital. They can get you to sleep in a safe way. It's very important to stay safe. You know what they say about safe sleeping....no really, go to the hospital before you take any more pills ok.

As for me, I'm heading away from this contagion and over to the sleep tips thread. Maybe I'll get the shock of the millennium and it will have a suggestion I've never heard before. I will be back to check on you though, Lori.

ZZZzzzzzzzzzssss to all.

Lori!! Sweety!! Stop taking whatever it is you're taking too much of and CALL YOUR DOCTOR! You're scaring the heck out of me and a bunch of other people! PLEASE!!!!

I apologize if I caused anybody any worry. It is still somewhat of a strange concept for me to think anybody cares whether I'm here or not, so thank you for showing me you do care that I'm here. I can't get into the Psychiatrist until Jan. 31st and my primary PA adjusted my Celexa a little and wants me to continue with the therapist until I can see the pdoc the 31st. I don't think I made him understand how desperate I am for some sleep. Here it is 2:30am and I'm still here.
Anyway thanks again for supporting me and caring that I'm having such a hard time right now.



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Call your Dr. back and make him realize how desperate you are for sleep. He works for you. Remember that.

Hugs,

Jan

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I care whether you are here or not. I care about YOU... and I care whether you've had the proper sleep or not. Please do what Jan says and call your Dr back and IMPRESS upon him how badly you need sleep. Please, Lori!

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Thank you both.......this is the almost verbatim conversation with my doctor. I told him about all the nights in a row with no sleep and a few nights with an hour broken here and there and that was with using lots of sleep meds and xanax. I said "Jack, I feel like I"m going to die or would rather be dead than live like this with no sleep. My thoughts are leaning towards not living if I have to live like this much longer." To which he chuckled and said "Lori, you won't die from lack of sleep and even if you think you would rather be dead than live like this, you don't really. Now up your Celexa another 20mg and take 1 xanax every 4 hrs for a while and see if that doesn't get you by until you can see the Physiciatrist the 31st in Kansas City."

I think he thought I was kidding when I said, I will tell them to call you to identify the body and he laughed and said "I see where Beth gets her drama skills." (my daughter)

Thanks so much for caring.........I just don't know what else to do. Follow his instructions, check myself into a hospital and get everything shut off here at home which I'm just barely treading water with anyway. I'm lucky I still have a roof over my head. I just walked in from my 4th treatment with the DMSO and a bladder scan revealed a new abnormality that will be checked out further next tuesday so I'm kind of bummed that this was the 4th treatment and it has it really flared up right now. I'm sorry, I am sounding like a complete whiner when so many people have it so much worse.

Thanks again {{{{{{{Sept & Jan}}}}}}}}}

Your doctor sounds like a moron. Check yourself in to a hospital. They have social workers who will help with the home stuff while you are taking care of yourself. I know what I am talking about.

i had a pediatrician laugh at me once also when i wasn't gettng any sleep. until you've been there.........no one knows how it affects your mind. and i had the recent two month bout with no sleep and finally found help through my PA in Oklahoma. had to call HER to get help.

so, i'd like for you to either go to another doctor or ER. to get into the hospital, there has to be an admitting doctor and it isn't like it used to be.

we had a doctor on staff that did admissions when your doctor didn't do it. it is very common in good hospitals now. the patient presents at ER, the admitting doc is called, evaluates you and admits you or helps you. our staff felt like it was the coolest thing since sliced bread..........

there's nothing more frustrating for ER staff to have to send someone home when they know that they need help. let me know what you do........love, pat

I will be speaking with one of my doctors at KU Med today and see if that is an avenue for being admitted. I know I need it.......I'm killing myself just slowly. I went through a lot with my insurance company about not being able to self admit, limits of psych services on my policy and how to get the most out of it. They just don't look at mental health like they do physical and they should because my mental health is killing me physically.

anyway, wanted to let you know that I am trying and do want to be admitted or at least someone to help me straighten things out so I can sleep. Stress I know is a major factor in all of it and that was added to at midnight when I got a phone call that my grandma was on her way to the hospital by ambulance. I drove like a wild thing the 13 miles to the even smaller hospital than the one in my town. First look at her showed that she had a major stroke. Today is her and my grandpa's 65th wedding anniversary. We just had the reception on saturday.

Anyway, please don't give up on me, I'm trying to get help.

Thank you again to each of you {{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}


Lori

no one is going to give up on you.........and check to see if your hospital has an "addmitting doctor"......my mind won't dredge up the "title" of such a doc......senility......

i'll send good vibes to your grandmother.......xoxoxo pat

{{{{{{Pat}}}}}}}

Thank you for both the good vibes and not giving up on me........I did check yesterday about admitting docs in this hospital where I live and I was told that if I came into the ER and there was a fill in my chances were "better" but not "great" and if it was one of the regular physcians in town that was on call to forget it, they would refer me to my doctor, which wants me to wait until the 31st.....yada, yada.....and that circle would continue. So I'm going to try with my Uro Doc today and see if I can get anywhere that way.

Thanks Pat.....

Just say you are suicidal, and can't contract for safety in this state, and they will have to hold you.