{"id":11733,"date":"2024-02-13T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11733"},"modified":"2024-02-13T12:42:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T12:42:39","slug":"health-wellbeing-extreme-exhaustion-vs-difficulty-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11733","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH & WELLBEiNG: Extreme Exhaustion vs Difficulty Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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More soothing green baize action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s nearing midday. And after another night of \u2018Zopiclone to the rescue\u2019, it\u2019s another morning of laying in bed feeling totally and utterly shattered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I both do and don\u2019t like to do this. I love to stay in bed, frankly. As I\u2019m G\u2019damn tired. And it\u2019s warm and cosy. Esp\u2019 with Chester snoozing close by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chester\u2019s peaceful company.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today, I\u2019ve slept like a log. At least post Zop\u2019. I wanted to do without. As I don\u2019t want to be dependent. But having fallen asleep on the couch earlier, when we came upstairs to bed my brain went into anxiety overdrive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I popped a Zop\u2019, and read a chunk more of Shelby Foote\u2019s monumental and highly enjoyable The Civil War.<\/em> And finally got off to sleep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I woke around 6-6.30 am, or poss\u2019 earlier, when Teresa wakes up for work. And I was on the Flex app, 6.30-8am, solid. Trying but failing to book a shift or two. But I could barely stay conscious. And kept drifting off to sleep. With some YouTube snooker playing soothingly in the background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ronny vs. Murphy, 2019 Masters Final.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had all kinds of crazy dreams. Most of which I\u2019ve forgotten, due to the stop-start sleeping this morning. I seem to have been enduring some kind of cold recently; bouts of tempestuous sneezing, nights of extreme dry throat, and sometimes – like now – a sore throat, partic\u2019 when I swallow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teresa has me taking spoonfuls of strong honey with chopped garlic in it. Which does seem to have beneficial medicinal effects. I\u2019m also taking plenty of Jakeman\u2019s menthol lozenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new flavour!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t succeed in booking a shift for today until about 9-10am, in a brief wakeful moment. I\u2019m going to \u2018go with the flow\u2019 today. On account of this extreme fatigue. And stay abed until I go to work. Not sure what I\u2019ll do for lunch?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the obvious problems with this pattern of morning exhaustion is evening alertness, and concomitant difficulty getting to sleep. And I\u2019m being strictly rationed by the Doc\u2019 on the Zop\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m hoping this is a short interlude? As prior to this cold, or whatever it is, I was sleeping fine unaided. And I want to get back to a more normal routine, ASAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One final footnote to all of this: I\u2019m suddenly really<\/em> feeling the cold!? I\u2019ve noticed, since being on immunosuppressant injections, that my whole metabolism appears to have changed. I tend to be hot all the time. And feel the cold much less than I used to. But just in the last day or two I feel freezing! What gives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well\u2026 it\u2019s 12.40pm. I gotta get up and go to work. And get some food n\u2019 drink sorted\u2026 here goes nuttin\u2019! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s nearing midday. And after another night of \u2018Zopiclone to the rescue\u2019, it\u2019s another morning of laying in bed feeling totally and utterly shattered. I both do and don\u2019t like to do this. I love to stay in bed, frankly. As I\u2019m G\u2019damn tired. And it\u2019s warm and cosy. Esp\u2019 with Chester snoozing close by. … <\/p>\n

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