Any fellow insomniacs or any neurologists have some obscure wisdom? I truly don’t sleep. Since 2015, likely earlier, my sleep latency is forever, I keep waking up if I do fall asleep, and I wake up too early. When I do sleep, according to an inpatient sleep study, I barely get to stage 3 sleep for a few minutes and hang out in stage 1 & 2. There is no REM sleep happening. I have limb movement multiple times a minute. I was prescribed a CPAP a few years ago and it hasn’t helped, even with strict adherence to use. The AHI is only between 0 and 0.4 any night of the week. You name a medication, on and off label use, and I’ve tried it. My sleep hygiene is impeccable. I keep thinking one good night’s sleep will fix me, but at this point, I’ve lost hope.
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I'm the opposite of an insomniac - I'm a rabid sleeper and love sleep. I usually hit 9 hours a day, sometimes more.
Here's what works for me - most obviously won't work for you, but give some another try if you haven't done them yet -
- Clean your bedsheets every couple days. Clean sheets = 😍
- Wash your hair well and shower right before getting into bed. No smell = 🥰
- Use white noise. You'll never get perfect silence, so drown out noise instead
- Turn off every single LED and light in your room. Don't have a single light source visible while you're in bed.
- Get an eye mask - a high quality one - if you can't do the above.
- Do the workout of your lifetime - Do an all-day hike or something. You can clock out from physical exhaustion
- Get in and out of bed at the same time every day. Start with less sleep time than you need. Force your body to recognize "I only rest in this bed"
- Conversely, don't do anything in your bed besides sleep. Especially don't use your phone with the nasty blue light
That last one I heard from a psych. They also said: if you're in bed and you can't sleep, get up. Go back to bed only when you feel tired again. That way you train your brain that bed=sleep.
My sleep has been off the last few nights. Waking up every couple hours. And I take sleeping meds to boot. I have a big audit Friday (I’m the lead auditor and it’s my first major one) so I’m hoping the next few nights are better so I’m on top of my game.
can Internet strangers do anything to help?
Thank you for asking, sincerely, but if Internet strangers tear into me for just having my comments have licensing footer text, there's no way I'm going to start stating any of my real issues that I'm dealing with, for them to judge.
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Your footer rules, don't let them haters win!
Your footer rules, don’t let them haters win!
Thanks, I appreciate the support. And don't worry I won't. This isn't my first rodeo with those who don't like it. I just wish there was more moderation on Lemmy to combat it, so I can spend more time just interacting with others on posts content itself.
My point was just to say that while I'm sure there's good and decent human beings who may disagree but be able to debate issues online with each other, there's a whole other bunch that would rather just see things burn, if it doesn't line up exactly to their personal belief system, and that makes it problematic for someone to expose their inner issues to everyone else, even when they desperately need their help.
And that's before throwing in conflict AI bots, and astroturfers trying to generate activity, that just pollutes the waters even more.
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it doesn't do anything though lol
Safe Harbor laws say otherwise. And Law trump ToS.
And I do believe that licenses will be enforced at some point, right now we're still in the Wild Wild West portion of things. Doesn't mean I don't want to lay down my markers now.
Also, I specifically want to make sure my comments are available for training for open source projects, which is what the license does.
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People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.
You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯\(ツ)/¯
People used to put goofy-ass sign-offs on comments back in forum days; a couple extra lines of text that don’t hurt anybody shouldn’t be an issue.
You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos
People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.
My inner tinfoil hat persona thinks its just corporate bots/astroturfers trying to shape the narratived away from every adding a license to their comments, as it truly does hold legal power.
Regular people either agree to different degress, or think its harmless and don't care. Its only a few that REALLY REALLY REALLY get bent out of shape about it, for strange reasons (which goes back to fueling my inner tinfoil hat persona).
You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯(ツ)/¯
Exactly, or moreso, additionally. My license allows for open-source/non-profit usage of my content, giving back to everybody else.
I just don't believe that Corporations should be able to make money off of my content without compensating me for it, as that is one of the fundamental tenants of Capitalism.
You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos
Thanks for your support, its appreciated. o7
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I had my first manic episode a couple weeks ago that put me in the hospital. Honestly it was terrifying, but I'm very thankful for my friends, family, med team, and some Internet strangers that made me reevaluate my lemmy instance. I've been recovering and truthfully feeling a lot better. I'm working on getting decent sleep again, but otherwise feeling good
My work life although crazy I still love, my church and my friends there are the light of my life. I love my dogs, my elderly pug is having some problems but it is what it is, my other dog is perfection and pure badness. My beloved aunt didn't need any oncology treatment after a bowel resection for cancer and is back to her normal self and turns 87 soon and is totally independent and still leads backstage tours at the local theater. Those are the good things.
Bad:
- I'm grateful I have my second job for the income and the flexibility and work from home, but I'm also so, so tired of having to work two jobs. It's been 20 years. While my asshole SO watches hockey for three hours a night.
- I don't have any money, and I don't know how I'll ever retire.
- My SO is a malignant narcissist and sociopath, and the only reason we're still living together is because of money, because he's fucked my finances so totally. He spends all his time trying to think of ways to torment me, to the pettiest degree. Last weekend he called me a deceptive little cunt and insisted I'm withholding money from my day job paycheck. I absolutely am not and it's just the way my benefits and union dues come off, one pay is about 150 less than the other. He only communicates with me when he has to, and he's psychotic about everything and almost hit me for changing the temperature setting in our car. I have no money to leave and it's so bad, I don't know how I can continue. I have nowhere to go.
Doing great, working hard at work and saving as much as I can. Helping my girlfriend come to the US for a year or two so we can pad the savings further and GTFO. Big plans for starting a business later on so we can get a bigger slice of the pie, and exercising/gaming for downtime.
Even if I don't like it here, I've worked out a good future plan filled with contingencies. Very lucky to have my opportunities, not gonna squander them 🙏
Okay I guess.
I've got a tweaked muscle in my back from helping my mom move some heavy furniture around last weekend still. Other than that I have no major complaints about life at the moment.
I do have the minor complaint that people like you think anyone who holds even one single stance that is slightly right of center is a full blown conservative (even when they have never voted red in their lives), but you walked away from that thread to make this post just like most people on this site do when they don't know what to say to me anymore.
So far Lemmy users seem to think there are "normal" people who are exactly like them (which is extremely far left) and then anyone who is even slightly right of that is considered a nazi conservative racist Republican shitbag that deserves to die.
But other than those things life is peachy. How about you?
Also waffles>French toast> pancakes