Awake! Asleep! (cramps…)

I need to grind me some stones on the day job this morning, so this will be brief. Did some med shuffling recently, and thought I would write about it in the interest of science.

CPAP: I think, after about 6 months of CPAP action, I am finally able to sleep through the night with it. For the last 4 days, I've managed to keep it on all night. The secret seems to be me taking that second Xanax I am allowed to take, but generally don't. Seems to make me not want to claw it off my face when I'm half asleep, and seems to make it okay to slow breath once I get up at night and disrupt my sleep. Yeah.

In spite of the CPAP, I'm still a pretty sleep person. I score a 13 out of 20 on that sleepiness scale. If I'm not driving, I am very likely to fall asleep in your car (as Skipper Dee can attest to, recently). At movies, in front of the television, and sometimes while reading. The neurologist offered me medicine for it.

Sleep Doc: I can give you some medicine for that.
Me: No, I'm on two depression meds. That might counteract their purposes.
Sleep Doc: I don't think so, unless you are Manic Depressive or are on NSAIDs.
Me: No, I'm already putting a lot of drugs in my body.
Sleep Doc: Okay. Well, the CPAP doesn't seem to be helping you enough.
Me: We can talk about it next time, right? When I get my life transforming CPAP under control!
Sleep Doc: Okay. We'll do that. Do you have energy to do anything at night? Work out? Things you want to do that aren't your job?
Me: Oh. (cue lightbulb) Okay, I'll try it.
Sleep Doc: Here are some samples. We'll call them in if you like it.

First day, I tried the new awake pill without Xanax. Wow. No one told me that the new pill would give Catherine Tourette's! I curbed my not quite safe for work vocabulary, and things went fine for most of the day. In the evening, I was really jumpy, paranoid, and full of anxiety, SO the next day I started taking a xanax.

I am currently not falling asleep in the car. That's pretty amazing. I had a little bit of trouble this morning, but that was the first incident in 3 days, and I believe that has more to do with the issues below. So, I'll finish off my samples, and if it works, I'll probably add a new pill to my repertoire.

Wimmin's stuff below.

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