INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

sas-schatzi

Sorry, forgot who asked how I keep the sheets on. I use a flat sheet that is one size or two sizes bigger that the bed for the lower sheet.  I have sheets that are all in good shape still from the 70's when we married>>80's>>90..2000's. It's like --do they ever wear out?...... The sheet may need a we bit of a straightening, but it's way better and faster than tucking. I suppose some would say LAZY, I prefer INNOVATIVE ---LOMO

Where is everyone? Did someone have a party and forget to tell me??????

sas-schatzi

Oh there you all are Whew, I thought I was alone.

luvmygoats

2nd time - all mine are off white, light beige, not really white - you get my drift. I dread trying to buy kitchen towels. They just don't bleach - must be the dyes they use now. I have some nice "bar mop that's what they called them" towels blue/white striped from WalMart. Bleach great but they don't make them any longer - well they do but about 1/2 the size of mine - useless.

I love to bleach kitchen, face towels cause never know what DH might have done with them. That and dog bath, mop ups. I don't do bath towels; just double wash them on hot. I resisted moving to a house with a septic system but have gotten on well with this one for 15 years. We did have to have the lateral lines redone in 2006 but we stupidly did not know that putting goats on the lateral lines was bad - they destroyed all the vegetation. So we had the tanks redone too at the same time.

Do you have an active sinus infection? Fever? How are the allergies out there right now? Ours are terrible for this early in year. I had that same thing over the weekend. One eye hurt, stabbing pain for about 45 min. Then just quit. I do have glaucoma and use lots of drops for it. But I think these are sinus, like you just above eyebrow. Maybe some Vicks type stuff. Was it on here that someone mentioned the Vicks inhaler - The Vapoinhaler per the Vicks site? Gosh I remember someone using that when I was a child. I've seen in recently in the stores too. Maybe try a towel over a nice bowl of steamy water carefully so not to burn yourself. Or maybe a hot shower.

Chevyboy

2ndTime!  Also maybe a humidifier?  

I know sometimes with me, I had to finally get anti-biotics to help clear it up.... Otherwise it went into Asthma, Bronchitis, etc.....   Nasal rinses are good, and how about the generic of Mucinex?  Does THAT help?   If none of this helps, I would check with your Doctor....  I also used Nyquil, or Daquil !  That helped my cough....

Sometimes it's a bacterial infection, not a viral.... and you need extra help.

Anonymous

Thanks, Luv! Doesn't appear to be an infection, everything running clear, not much of it. Need to check for fever, just chills. Glad it's not sunny bright outside blinds are closed, nothing on slider, no indoor lights. Hurts when I walk. Tried to take a shower, get sick inside. Trying Dr Oz trick of ginger tea (tea bag + sliced fresh ginger). Need to go to the store for stuff for dinner, not comfortable driving. DH was very irritated I was asleep when he got home a couple hours early and I was sound asleep with no dinner waiting. (I love roasted veggies which he won't eat). Gotta look for some Vicks or Tiger Balm in the medicine cabinets. Thinking of a strong drink, something to knock me out.

Sassy, I see one owl is back. What happened?

sas-schatzi

Littlegoats---thankyou the page 213 owl is home. I'll pm MMand see if she has them in her folder, pretty sure both the others were hers. The one owl was fairly close to pgae 180's. That's about the time we started calling ourselves owlettes. The problem is the sizing and placement took forever (said in valley girl voice).  One stroke of a key and they all disappeared.

We call the towels for the dogs and cleaning  "dog towels" too. LOL. Started in the days of the Brittanies. They loved to rub themselves in the most disgusting stinky things on their necks and chests>>>>.then roll. They got lots of baths. Hence --dog towel.

Maddy had a similar thing in the 90's use a saline rinse made on the stove. I thought the left side of my face was going to explode. The saline loosened this ---thing. This thing was about an inch long hard as rubber. Never had it again.

sas-schatzi

Chevy, nope wasn't smoking anything. I just was in horrible pain the first time I did it. I kept thinking let it be numb. Then the pain was gone and I touched my neck---it was as if the whole neck and upper shoulder area had been injected with lidocaine. Then when I moved I could tell I was high. It was very nice, but funny. Next time neck went out I did the numbing mantra---same thing. After figuring out the high came with the numbing, I was careful only to do it at home with no going anywhere.

Then around 1980, I was telling my workmate about it b/c my neck was out---terrible pain. He said do it. I did. Pain gone, but he had to drive me home I was higher than a kite could fly LOL.

luvmygoats

Sassy I'm pretty sure one was Chevy's. I need to look back further. It seems like I left off reading on pg 187 and just started posting on 212. So bet it's further back than 187. I hope I recognize them when I see them.

Yes, I feel like a furry thing is living in my nose that I cannot reach. It is extremely dry here maybe I need to take my own advice about hot shower/steamy towel.

Wren44

2TA, Maybe a migraine? Sure sounds a lot like one. Especially the light sensitivity and nausea.

sas-schatzi

LMG I I started at 180 and am at 215. Got the two. The third was after 215

sas-schatzi

pg 219 chevy's

sas-schatzi

pge229 MM

                                                             

sas-schatzi

Too late , too smart. As Dad used to say. I should have had a master of the three stashed in my storage thread. Then post to a box. Then work on sizing and placement           OH well.

luvmygoats

Was that it? I guess I thought it was another owl on a fence with sideways head. Told you I would not recognize it cause I saw that one and went "Naw, not that one". I'd fail those memory tests. HaHa.

Oh yes, storage. I have massive amts. of pics now thanks to BCO. Asked DH how my storage capacity was and he said not even a drop in the bucket used.

sas-schatzi

Edit 12/16/13: Hi EVERYONE!. This called the insomnia thread, but threads evolve. Post 24/7/365 we are here all the time. We call ourselves Owlettes

This is a safe haven. No nastiness, bullying, or such allowed. I would like to keep the kind fabric of this thread intact.

Discussion will flow where it will as all threads do. This will be a happy place. I hope with lots of laughing. Talk of things, needs, rants as your mood or thoughts take you. Each person here has a history of helping others. Threads develop pseudo family groups. Fancy way to say we become like family. This family will have all the best a family has to offer, but none of the negatives.

EDIT 11/18/13 May help with sleeplessness: circadian rhythm, melatonin--pub med evidence based research : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21476953

Agometaline is approved for use in Europe/Australia  for insomnia. It is NOT approved in the USA : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agomelatine

How to naturally reset circadian rhythm with food :  http://www.wisebread.com/how-to-naturally-reset-your-sleep-cycle-overnight

Article connecting insomnia and depression. It's a chicken egg thing--insomnia >> depression, depression>>>insomnia.

http://blog.aarp.org/2013/12/02/is-curing-insomnia-key-to-curing-depression/?intcmp=AE-ENDART1-BL-REL

BCO Member Notself's  three day plan: 1. Get doc script for sleep aid, at lowest dose. 2. Set sleep time. 3. Take pill 1/2 hr to 1 hr before set time.  4. Do this for three days; 5. Should sleep on fourth night..  6. Repeat steps 1-5 if sleeplessness has lasted more than one night.

Don'ts that are known to cause sleeplessness: Alcohol, coffee, chocolate, looking at computer screens before bedtime, sex  and  exersize(variable by person); Do's that promote sleep: Sex and exersize(variable by person) , book reading, foot massage, aromatherapy, sleepy teas. After dinner walk(variable).

How is it you said I should find sleep? Who needs sleep, I need more coffee?

 

   WTF?

[img src="http://community.breastcancer.org/posts/images/0000/2151/happy_new_year_owlette.jpg">

luvmygoats

Reading through saw that Smaarty has not been on recently. Missing you.

sas-schatzi

  just storing, didn't want lose topic box stuff.

Posted on: Apr 8, 2011 01:45pm, edited a minute ago by sas-schatzi

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sas-schatzi wrote:

Edit 12/16/13: Hi EVERYONE!. This called the insomnia thread, but threads evolve. Post 24/7/365 we are here all the time. We call ourselves Owlettes

This is a safe haven. No nastiness, bullying, or such allowed. I would like to keep the kind fabric of this thread intact.

Discussion will flow where it will as all threads do. This will be a happy place. I hope with lots of laughing. Talk of things, needs, rants as your mood or thoughts take you. Each person here has a history of helping others. Threads develop pseudo family groups. Fancy way to say we become like family. This family will have all the best a family has to offer, but none of the negatives.

EDIT 11/18/13 May help with sleeplessness: circadian rhythm, melatonin--pub med evidence based research : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21476953

Agometaline is approved for use in Europe/Australia  for insomnia. It is NOT approved in the USA : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agomelatine

How to naturally reset circadian rhythm with food :  http://www.wisebread.com/how-to-naturally-reset-your-sleep-cycle-overnight

Article connecting insomnia and depression. It's a chicken egg thing--insomnia >> depression, depression>>>insomnia.

http://blog.aarp.org/2013/12/02/is-curing-insomnia-key-to-curing-depression/?intcmp=AE-ENDART1-BL-REL

BCO Member Notself's  three day plan: 1. Get doc script for sleep aid, at lowest dose. 2. Set sleep time. 3. Take pill 1/2 hr to 1 hr before set time.  4. Do this for three days; 5. Should sleep on fourth night..  6. Repeat steps 1-5 if sleeplessness has lasted more than one night.

Don'ts that are known to cause sleeplessness: Alcohol, coffee, chocolate, looking at computer screens before bedtime, sex  and  exersize(variable by person); Do's that promote sleep: Sex and exersize(variable by person) , book reading, foot massage, aromatherapy, sleepy teas. After dinner walk(variable).

sas-schatzi

 

   WTF?

pg194,213,219

sas-schatzi

Okay this is Tues,---Her sx was today? Smarties sx. WERE supposed to be in someone's pocket- chit?

Chevyboy

LilGoats!  What was mine?  I mean what are you talking about?  Can I help?

Did I actually say something pertinent, or helpful?  Or did I help somebody do something?

luvmygoats

Chevy - Sassy lost her topper pictures and we were trying to find them. I was pretty sure you had contributed one and sure enough Sassy found it.

Chevyboy

Okay, now I'm lost!  I don't even know what "topper pictures" ARE! 

luvmygoats

The owls up top of the page. We are the Owlettes.

camillegal

Chevy don't worry u said nothing to help--that's a given and SAS Chevy's early in the morning observations should simply be called Chevy's Chit. It's pretty much the way it is.

2nd maybe it's time u get an auntie-Bee, that might be the only relief u can get. They move in our heads and stay there, like that commercial, but sometimes over the counter stuff just doesn't do it. Thnik about it.

Chevyboy

OoooooooHHHHHHHHHHH!   That's what I get for not paying attention! 

sas-schatzi

 

MostlyMom and Chevy, I reposted---it here while I worked on sizing , so I wouldn't wipe myself outagain

Teka

sas,

Holeinone

Maddy, 

I agree with Wren, sounds like a possible migraine, or bad sinus headache. Hot tea, with or without something strong in it, dark room...screw dinner...

Sas, saline rinse sounds like its worth a try....let us know.....

IllinoisLady

Count me in for thinking those two owls kissing are simply marvelous -- dawling'

Lilli

Teka

sas,