nercolepsy
Question:
ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just *forgot* that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… 
i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i *got* 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i *took* a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but *saying* Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt — "It is astonishing, really, how many thoroughly mature, well-adjusted grown-ups harbor a teddy bear — which is perhaps why they are thoroughly mature and well-adjusted." — Joseph Lempa
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the iv joke with coffee is a standard one with my friends. 
that, and "let’s go for coffee. who’s got money?" coffee kinda makes it worse, cuz the coffee wears off, and the VVVVVVvvvvvoooop happens *faster*. badbadbad. at least without it, some of us can stay awake while the body swoons, and we can keep bad things from happening that involve the head getting hurt. (have VERY serious issues with having my head messed with physically. never processed the fb’s enough, i guess.) in theory, i just had bloodwork done a couple weeks ago on my thyroid levels. …and i missed the doc appt where he coulda told me what they meant. *grins* i’m multiple! whaddayawant?!?! :-D i assume, from your question, that sleepiness is a symptom of thyroid imbalance? (it’s been awhile since i read thru the symptoms) (i have lots of ‘em. both lists. *grins*) i can assure you that i do, in fact, have narcolepsy. i get cataplexy – where the body loses muscle tone like someone cut the puppet strings. and i have the thingy where …hmm…think it’s called "lucid dreaming", where i can keep dreaming after i wake up. and i start dreaming to fall asleep. And the narcolepsy got better when i started taking welbutrin, though not lots and lots better…but it got LOTS and LOTS better when i started meds for adhd…cuz stimulants treat narcolepsy, too. i also have several other disorders that are on the same "tree" as narcolepsy…migraines and adhd. it’s the same tree as epilepsy, and i’m aware that i have a better-than-average chance of having a grand-mal seizure someday and thus have epilepsy. that whole nervous system thing is mis-wired, u know? eh – more later, i guess. jt
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just *forgot* that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i *got* 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i *took* a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but *saying* Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
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My favorite n*rcolepsy story is a friend of mine who fell asleep while riding an exercise bike at the gym. She woke up after she fell off the bike onto the floor (wasn’t hurt, fell on a mat) and everyone in the room was just staring at her in confusion, unable to figure out what had happened. Apparently no one had ever seen anyone fall asleep while exercising before. She can’t tell that story without laughing hysterically. I don’t exactly have narcolepsy, but I need 10-12 hours of sleep a night to be able to function at all. This is highly inconvenient. I work about 50 hours a week, so it is a real pain to have this much need for sleep take away a lot of free time. I don’t like the fact that I have to go to bed extremely early if I want to exercise before work in the morning, and have to go to bed pretty early if I just want to get up to go to work somewhere near on time. It is a pain. So I can relate to the annoyance of sleep problems. -Nancy
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Hi jt – No – you ain’t getting all my sleep, dear, because I have narcoleptic thingies, too. Might be drug-related. But – definitely – if I lie down in the day – gone. And for a long time. Yep – like two plus hours. That’s my nap cycle – kind of an hour on each side, you know? But so far as night sleep goes, when that is working out (and I can’t remember when it did) I need more than any 7 hours - lots more. I am more toward Nancy’s end of things. 10 hours feels better to me than less – less makes me feel like I want – more. And I definitely will be at keyboard and be sleeping in between trying to read/write posts – sometimes wake up because my head starts tipping back and pulling my whole body backward off the chair. And sometimes I am lying down reading, and I will be falling asleep but still think I am reading – like reading through my eyelids or something. But then why don’t I put the book down and go to sleep? I don’t know – some resistance, even fear to that (no, it isn’t about nightmares – I have so very, very few of them ever, in fact, my dream life is usually lots better than my waking life) – but it’s like – well, anyway, often when I do put the book down and curl up, I wake up more, and have to think. I don’t wanna think. Ever. It hurts to think – too many things to hurt about, esp. at night. Soooooo – book, book, book, as hours grow longer. Sometimes I simply lie book down in lap, snooze for a couple of hours in the propped up reading position – but it isn’t deep sleep. Driving can cause my eyes to cross and my mind to shut down horribly, and all too frequently – though that’s been much better lately. As I think I may have written here, I have had to pull off and go to sleep for an hour or an hour and a half simply to keep from becoming an unfortunate statistic. Your description about chunks of sleep – that is very familiar; and the time of day you mention as your bad time is my worst time – actually, mine can start as early as 2 p.m., but, yeah, the worst is 4-6 p.m. So what do they do for narcolepsy????? What is adderall and what does it do? I take Ritalin in an effort to "kick" me awake and keep me awake – a slow-release and quick release in the a.m., and, if I remember (and who remembers?) another quick release at noon – supposing I’m awake at noon, or have not just woken up ten minutes before and taken my a.m. dose. And of course, I don’t want to be supposed to take it later, because I don’t want it to interfere w/night sleep. Hah. What night sleep? Beauty. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just *forgot* that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i *got* 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i *took* a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but *saying* Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
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Ahem: a friend, who has suffered thyroid problems all her life, and now has Hashimoto’s, and no thyroid function at all – tells me that all women of a certain age (say, 40 and older) should continually monitor thyroid levels – there are three kinds of tests and all should be done – (T3, T4 and TSH) – because at any point, thyroid problems can kick in. Middle aged women are particularly at risk, and it is so very often overlooked. Beauty. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just *forgot* that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i *got* 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i *took* a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but *saying* Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
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Wow – you’re giving me lots of info. I have this thing that’s just started in the past six months or so where I *know* I am dreaming, but I am talking aloud to people in my dreams, half awake and half asleep – and sometimes go on back to "sleep" after I finish talking to them. My son realizes this and often asks me – "Are you awake?" when I am talking to him in bed w/my eyes closed. I say, "Yes," and I am, in fact, perfectly aware of what I am saying and why – but I’d bet that my brain waves would not be those of a person who is "awake." Lucid dreaming different. In lucid dreaming, you are actually truly and naturally asleep, go into REM and dream, but at a certain point become aware somehow that you are dreaming, and therefore can control what happens in your dream. I have done that, too – used to before I got all messed up w/my sleeping. That is a function of natural sleep, a skill (like dissociation) which comes easily to some, but can also be developed. The best book on this that I know is simply called *L*cid Dreaming" and is by St*phen LaB[e]rge. He’s a sleep scientist, draws on a lot of studies, both from Western science and from anthro., and he also has developed ways of teaching lucid dreaming skills to those who are interested – there are incredible benefits. You can work stuff out in your dream world, work out better endings to recurring troubling dreams, do stuff you always wanted to do (like fly to Venus or discover treasures full of rainbow jewels or whatever). Okay, I’ll shut up. Yeah, I’ll start dreaming before/as I am going to sleep – partly knowing and partly not knowing I am dreaming, instead, thinking I am thinking – sometimes even thinking that I am kind of "writing," i.e., composing stories . . . but . . . thank goodness, don’t have that muscle tone count falling backward out my computer chair – but that’s already after I’ve kind of gone to sleep, I think – Beauty. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – the iv joke with coffee is a standard one with my friends. that, and "let’s go for coffee. who’s got money?" coffee kinda makes it worse, cuz the coffee wears off, and the VVVVVVvvvvvoooop happens *faster*. badbadbad. at least without it, some of us can stay awake while the body swoons, and we can keep bad things from happening that involve the head getting hurt. (have VERY serious issues with having my head messed with physically. never processed the fb’s enough, i guess.) in theory, i just had bloodwork done a couple weeks ago on my thyroid levels. …and i missed the doc appt where he coulda told me what they meant. *grins* i’m multiple! whaddayawant?!?! :-D i assume, from your question, that sleepiness is a symptom of thyroid imbalance? (it’s been awhile since i read thru the symptoms) (i have lots of ‘em. both lists. *grins*) i can assure you that i do, in fact, have narcolepsy. i get cataplexy – where the body loses muscle tone like someone cut the puppet strings. and i have the thingy where …hmm…think it’s called "lucid dreaming", where i can keep dreaming after i wake up. and i start dreaming to fall asleep. And the narcolepsy got better when i started taking welbutrin, though not lots and lots better…but it got LOTS and LOTS better when i started meds for adhd…cuz stimulants treat narcolepsy, too. i also have several other disorders that are on the same "tree" as narcolepsy…migraines and adhd. it’s the same tree as epilepsy, and i’m aware that i have a better-than-average chance of having a grand-mal seizure someday and thus have epilepsy. that whole nervous system thing is mis-wired, u know? eh – more later, i guess. jt seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just *forgot* that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i *got* 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i *took* a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but *saying* Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
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<—somewhat sardonic "fbs" = fl*shb*cks(a,a) that may not need to be splatted, but some ppl just are really sensitive, i guess, so i try to be careful. ’sides, i have adhd. anything that i can shorten gets shortened! 
jt (…you know, like my name? can’t get any shorter than "jt". well…could be "j". or "t", i guess…but… )
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – using a different newsreader so let me know if it has probs… the iv joke with coffee is a standard one with my friends. that, and "let’s go for coffee. who’s got money?" LOL and cause I want it so much I’ll say ME!!! coffee kinda makes it worse, cuz the coffee wears off, and the VVVVVVvvvvvoooop happens faster. badbadbad. at least yes, this is true. A couple double sh*ts of espresso would keep me awake for maybe an hour, then I’d crash… without it, some of us can stay awake while the body swoons, and we can keep bad things from happening that involve the head getting hurt. (have VERY serious issues with having my head messed with physically. yes, I know… :o(((( never processed the fb’s enough, i guess.) "fb’s"? in theory, i just had bloodwork done a couple weeks ago on my thyroid levels. …and i missed the doc appt where he coulda told me what they meant. grins i’m multiple! whaddayawant?!?! :-D call him please and get a reading on your thyroid levels, just to rule that out….. pretty please??? i assume, from your question, that sleepiness is a symptom of thyroid imbalance? (it’s been awhile since i read thru the symptoms) (i have lots of ‘em. both lists. grins) i It is, though I believe I found it for a symptom for both hypo- (low) and hyper- (high)(which I had) -thyroidism. I was sleeping tons and had still had no energy. can assure you that i do, in fact, have narcolepsy. i get cataplexy – where the body loses muscle tone like someone cut the puppet strings. eeech!!!!!!! and i have the thingy where …hmm…think it’s called "lucid dreaming", where i can keep dreaming after i wake up. not lucid dreaming, I don’t think, but don’t know what that’s called…. and i start dreaming to fall asleep. Wish I could do that!!!!!!! And the narcolepsy got better when i started taking welbutrin, though not lots and lots better…but it got LOTS and LOTS better when i started meds for adhd…cuz stimulants treat narcolepsy, too. coffee!!!!!!! (oops, who said that… scurry scurry i also have several other disorders that are on the same "tree" as narcolepsy…migraines and adhd. it’s the same tree as epilepsy, and i’m aware that i have a better-than-average chance of having a grand-mal seizure someday and thus have epilepsy. that whole nervous system thing is mis-wired, u know? all due to your blessed f*ther. cr*p! {{{Jen}}} eh – more later, i guess. jt Kristi seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just forgot that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i got 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i took a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but saying Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
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<—somewhat sardonic "fbs" = fl*shb*cks(a,a)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh thanks! that may not need to be splatted, but some ppl just are really sensitive, i guess, so i try to be careful. ’sides, i have adhd. anything that i can shorten gets shortened! jt (…you know, like my name? can’t get any shorter than "jt". well…could be "j". or "t", i guess…but… )
yeah, hey, what’s with the extra letters??????? :-D Kristi – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – using a different newsreader so let me know if it has probs… the iv joke with coffee is a standard one with my friends. that, and "let’s go for coffee. who’s got money?" LOL and cause I want it so much I’ll say ME!!! coffee kinda makes it worse, cuz the coffee wears off, and the VVVVVVvvvvvoooop happens faster. badbadbad. at least yes, this is true. A couple double sh*ts of espresso would keep me awake for maybe an hour, then I’d crash… without it, some of us can stay awake while the body swoons, and we can keep bad things from happening that involve the head getting hurt. (have VERY serious issues with having my head messed with physically. yes, I know… :o(((( never processed the fb’s enough, i guess.) "fb’s"? in theory, i just had bloodwork done a couple weeks ago on my thyroid levels. …and i missed the doc appt where he coulda told me what they meant. grins i’m multiple! whaddayawant?!?! :-D call him please and get a reading on your thyroid levels, just to rule that out….. pretty please??? i assume, from your question, that sleepiness is a symptom of thyroid imbalance? (it’s been awhile since i read thru the symptoms) (i have lots of ‘em. both lists. grins) i It is, though I believe I found it for a symptom for both hypo- (low) and hyper- (high)(which I had) -thyroidism. I was sleeping tons and had still had no energy. can assure you that i do, in fact, have narcolepsy. i get cataplexy – where the body loses muscle tone like someone cut the puppet strings. eeech!!!!!!! and i have the thingy where …hmm…think it’s called "lucid dreaming", where i can keep dreaming after i wake up. not lucid dreaming, I don’t think, but don’t know what that’s called…. and i start dreaming to fall asleep. Wish I could do that!!!!!!! And the narcolepsy got better when i started taking welbutrin, though not lots and lots better…but it got LOTS and LOTS better when i started meds for adhd…cuz stimulants treat narcolepsy, too. coffee!!!!!!! (oops, who said that… scurry scurry i also have several other disorders that are on the same "tree" as narcolepsy…migraines and adhd. it’s the same tree as epilepsy, and i’m aware that i have a better-than-average chance of having a grand-mal seizure someday and thus have epilepsy. that whole nervous system thing is mis-wired, u know? all due to your blessed f*ther. cr*p! {{{Jen}}} eh – more later, i guess. jt Kristi seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just forgot that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i got 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i took a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but saying Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
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using a different newsreader so let me know if it has probs…
Ok, cause you asked, although this has nothing to do with the actual problem you were asking about *grin*, could you put a space between what you are replying to and what you actually type? From my end I see the line and then immediately see your words and my mind insists that what you write is part of the line. Rainbow Colors (Jill) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – the iv joke with coffee is a standard one with my friends. that, and "let’s go for coffee. who’s got money?" LOL and cause I want it so much I’ll say ME!!! coffee kinda makes it worse, cuz the coffee wears off, and the VVVVVVvvvvvoooop happens faster. badbadbad. at least yes, this is true. A couple double sh*ts of espresso would keep me awake for maybe an hour, then I’d crash… without it, some of us can stay awake while the body swoons, and we can keep bad things from happening that involve the head getting hurt. (have VERY serious issues with having my head messed with physically. yes, I know… :o(((( never processed the fb’s enough, i guess.) "fb’s"? in theory, i just had bloodwork done a couple weeks ago on my thyroid levels. …and i missed the doc appt where he coulda told me what they meant. grins i’m multiple! whaddayawant?!?! :-D call him please and get a reading on your thyroid levels, just to rule that out….. pretty please??? i assume, from your question, that sleepiness is a symptom of thyroid imbalance? (it’s been awhile since i read thru the symptoms) (i have lots of ‘em. both lists. grins) i It is, though I believe I found it for a symptom for both hypo- (low) and hyper- (high)(which I had) -thyroidism. I was sleeping tons and had still had no energy. can assure you that i do, in fact, have narcolepsy. i get cataplexy – where the body loses muscle tone like someone cut the puppet strings. eeech!!!!!!! and i have the thingy where …hmm…think it’s called "lucid dreaming", where i can keep dreaming after i wake up. not lucid dreaming, I don’t think, but don’t know what that’s called…. and i start dreaming to fall asleep. Wish I could do that!!!!!!! And the narcolepsy got better when i started taking welbutrin, though not lots and lots better…but it got LOTS and LOTS better when i started meds for adhd…cuz stimulants treat narcolepsy, too. coffee!!!!!!! (oops, who said that… scurry scurry i also have several other disorders that are on the same "tree" as narcolepsy…migraines and adhd. it’s the same tree as epilepsy, and i’m aware that i have a better-than-average chance of having a grand-mal seizure someday and thus have epilepsy. that whole nervous system thing is mis-wired, u know? all due to your blessed f*ther. cr*p! {{{Jen}}} eh – more later, i guess. jt Kristi seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just forgot that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i got 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i took a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but saying Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
– The colors blend, the edges soften. Swirling and mixing we are becoming white light.
Response:
using a different newsreader so let me know if it has probs… Ok, cause you asked, although this has nothing to do with the actual problem you were asking about grin, could you put a space between what you are replying to and what you actually type? From my end I see the line and then immediately see your words and my mind insists that what you write is part of the line.
yes! definitely! Thanks! Kristi 
))))))) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Rainbow Colors (Jill) the iv joke with coffee is a standard one with my friends. that, and "let’s go for coffee. who’s got money?" LOL and cause I want it so much I’ll say ME!!! coffee kinda makes it worse, cuz the coffee wears off, and the VVVVVVvvvvvoooop happens faster. badbadbad. at least yes, this is true. A couple double sh*ts of espresso would keep me awake for maybe an hour, then I’d crash… without it, some of us can stay awake while the body swoons, and we can keep bad things from happening that involve the head getting hurt. (have VERY serious issues with having my head messed with physically. yes, I know… :o(((( never processed the fb’s enough, i guess.) "fb’s"? in theory, i just had bloodwork done a couple weeks ago on my thyroid levels. …and i missed the doc appt where he coulda told me what they meant. grins i’m multiple! whaddayawant?!?! :-D call him please and get a reading on your thyroid levels, just to rule that out….. pretty please??? i assume, from your question, that sleepiness is a symptom of thyroid imbalance? (it’s been awhile since i read thru the symptoms) (i have lots of ‘em. both lists. grins) i It is, though I believe I found it for a symptom for both hypo- (low) and hyper- (high)(which I had) -thyroidism. I was sleeping tons and had still had no energy. can assure you that i do, in fact, have narcolepsy. i get cataplexy – where the body loses muscle tone like someone cut the puppet strings. eeech!!!!!!! and i have the thingy where …hmm…think it’s called "lucid dreaming", where i can keep dreaming after i wake up. not lucid dreaming, I don’t think, but don’t know what that’s called…. and i start dreaming to fall asleep. Wish I could do that!!!!!!! And the narcolepsy got better when i started taking welbutrin, though not lots and lots better…but it got LOTS and LOTS better when i started meds for adhd…cuz stimulants treat narcolepsy, too. coffee!!!!!!! (oops, who said that… scurry scurry i also have several other disorders that are on the same "tree" as narcolepsy…migraines and adhd. it’s the same tree as epilepsy, and i’m aware that i have a better-than-average chance of having a grand-mal seizure someday and thus have epilepsy. that whole nervous system thing is mis-wired, u know? all due to your blessed f*ther. cr*p! {{{Jen}}} eh – more later, i guess. jt Kristi seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just forgot that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i got 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i took a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but saying Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
Response:
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – <—somewhat sardonic "fbs" = fl*shb*cks(a,a) Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh thanks! that may not need to be splatted, but some ppl just are really sensitive, i guess, so i try to be careful. ’sides, i have adhd. anything that i can shorten gets shortened! jt (…you know, like my name? can’t get any shorter than "jt". well…could be "j". or "t", i guess…but… ) yeah, hey, what’s with the extra letters??????? :-D Kristi
Padding to get a longer post out of it I’m sure *snicker* Rainbow Colors (Jill) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – using a different newsreader so let me know if it has probs… the iv joke with coffee is a standard one with my friends. that, and "let’s go for coffee. who’s got money?" LOL and cause I want it so much I’ll say ME!!! coffee kinda makes it worse, cuz the coffee wears off, and the VVVVVVvvvvvoooop happens faster. badbadbad. at least yes, this is true. A couple double sh*ts of espresso would keep me awake for maybe an hour, then I’d crash… without it, some of us can stay awake while the body swoons, and we can keep bad things from happening that involve the head getting hurt. (have VERY serious issues with having my head messed with physically. yes, I know… :o(((( never processed the fb’s enough, i guess.) "fb’s"? in theory, i just had bloodwork done a couple weeks ago on my thyroid levels. …and i missed the doc appt where he coulda told me what they meant. grins i’m multiple! whaddayawant?!?! :-D call him please and get a reading on your thyroid levels, just to rule that out….. pretty please??? i assume, from your question, that sleepiness is a symptom of thyroid imbalance? (it’s been awhile since i read thru the symptoms) (i have lots of ‘em. both lists. grins) i It is, though I believe I found it for a symptom for both hypo- (low) and hyper- (high)(which I had) -thyroidism. I was sleeping tons and had still had no energy. can assure you that i do, in fact, have narcolepsy. i get cataplexy – where the body loses muscle tone like someone cut the puppet strings. eeech!!!!!!! and i have the thingy where …hmm…think it’s called "lucid dreaming", where i can keep dreaming after i wake up. not lucid dreaming, I don’t think, but don’t know what that’s called…. and i start dreaming to fall asleep. Wish I could do that!!!!!!! And the narcolepsy got better when i started taking welbutrin, though not lots and lots better…but it got LOTS and LOTS better when i started meds for adhd…cuz stimulants treat narcolepsy, too. coffee!!!!!!! (oops, who said that… scurry scurry i also have several other disorders that are on the same "tree" as narcolepsy…migraines and adhd. it’s the same tree as epilepsy, and i’m aware that i have a better-than-average chance of having a grand-mal seizure someday and thus have epilepsy. that whole nervous system thing is mis-wired, u know? all due to your blessed f*ther. cr*p! {{{Jen}}} eh – more later, i guess. jt Kristi seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just forgot that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i got 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i took a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but saying Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
– The colors blend, the edges soften. Swirling and mixing we are becoming white light.
Response:
- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – <—somewhat sardonic "fbs" = fl*shb*cks(a,a) Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh thanks! that may not need to be splatted, but some ppl just are really sensitive, i guess, so i try to be careful. ’sides, i have adhd. anything that i can shorten gets shortened! jt (…you know, like my name? can’t get any shorter than "jt". well…could be "j". or "t", i guess…but… ) yeah, hey, what’s with the extra letters??????? :-D Kristi Padding to get a longer post out of it I’m sure snicker
LOLOLOL – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Rainbow Colors (Jill) using a different newsreader so let me know if it has probs… the iv joke with coffee is a standard one with my friends. that, and "let’s go for coffee. who’s got money?" LOL and cause I want it so much I’ll say ME!!! coffee kinda makes it worse, cuz the coffee wears off, and the VVVVVVvvvvvoooop happens faster. badbadbad. at least yes, this is true. A couple double sh*ts of espresso would keep me awake for maybe an hour, then I’d crash… without it, some of us can stay awake while the body swoons, and we can keep bad things from happening that involve the head getting hurt. (have VERY serious issues with having my head messed with physically. yes, I know… :o(((( never processed the fb’s enough, i guess.) "fb’s"? in theory, i just had bloodwork done a couple weeks ago on my thyroid levels. …and i missed the doc appt where he coulda told me what they meant. grins i’m multiple! whaddayawant?!?! :-D call him please and get a reading on your thyroid levels, just to rule that out….. pretty please??? i assume, from your question, that sleepiness is a symptom of thyroid imbalance? (it’s been awhile since i read thru the symptoms) (i have lots of ‘em. both lists. grins) i It is, though I believe I found it for a symptom for both hypo- (low) and hyper- (high)(which I had) -thyroidism. I was sleeping tons and had still had no energy. can assure you that i do, in fact, have narcolepsy. i get cataplexy – where the body loses muscle tone like someone cut the puppet strings. eeech!!!!!!! and i have the thingy where …hmm…think it’s called "lucid dreaming", where i can keep dreaming after i wake up. not lucid dreaming, I don’t think, but don’t know what that’s called…. and i start dreaming to fall asleep. Wish I could do that!!!!!!! And the narcolepsy got better when i started taking welbutrin, though not lots and lots better…but it got LOTS and LOTS better when i started meds for adhd…cuz stimulants treat narcolepsy, too. coffee!!!!!!! (oops, who said that… scurry scurry i also have several other disorders that are on the same "tree" as narcolepsy…migraines and adhd. it’s the same tree as epilepsy, and i’m aware that i have a better-than-average chance of having a grand-mal seizure someday and thus have epilepsy. that whole nervous system thing is mis-wired, u know? all due to your blessed f*ther. cr*p! {{{Jen}}} eh – more later, i guess. jt Kristi seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just forgot that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i got 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i took a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but saying Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
Response:
using a different newsreader so let me know if it has probs… the iv joke with coffee is a standard one with my friends. that, and "let’s go for coffee. who’s got money?"
LOL and cause I want it so much I’ll say ME!!! coffee kinda makes it worse, cuz the coffee wears off, and the VVVVVVvvvvvoooop happens faster. badbadbad. at least
yes, this is true. A couple double sh*ts of espresso would keep me awake for maybe an hour, then I’d crash… without it, some of us can stay awake while the body swoons, and we can keep bad things from happening that involve the head getting hurt. (have VERY serious issues with having my head messed with physically.
yes, I know… :o(((( never processed the fb’s enough, i guess.)
"fb’s"? in theory, i just had bloodwork done a couple weeks ago on my thyroid levels. …and i missed the doc appt where he coulda told me what they meant. grins i’m multiple! whaddayawant?!?! :-D
call him please and get a reading on your thyroid levels, just to rule that out….. pretty please??? i assume, from your question, that sleepiness is a symptom of thyroid imbalance? (it’s been awhile since i read thru the symptoms) (i have lots of ‘em. both lists. grins) i
It is, though I believe I found it for a symptom for both hypo- (low) and hyper- (high)(which I had) -thyroidism. I was sleeping tons and had still had no energy. can assure you that i do, in fact, have narcolepsy. i get cataplexy – where the body loses muscle tone like someone cut the puppet strings.
eeech!!!!!!! and i have the thingy where …hmm…think it’s called "lucid dreaming", where i can keep dreaming after i wake up.
not lucid dreaming, I don’t think, but don’t know what that’s called…. and i start dreaming to fall asleep.
Wish I could do that!!!!!!! And the narcolepsy got better when i started taking welbutrin, though not lots and lots better…but it got LOTS and LOTS better when i started meds for adhd…cuz stimulants treat narcolepsy, too.
coffee!!!!!!! (oops, who said that… scurry scurry i also have several other disorders that are on the same "tree" as narcolepsy…migraines and adhd. it’s the same tree as epilepsy, and i’m aware that i have a better-than-average chance of having a grand-mal seizure someday and thus have epilepsy. that whole nervous system thing is mis-wired, u know?
all due to your blessed f*ther. cr*p! {{{Jen}}} eh – more later, i guess. jt
Kristi – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – seriously, when was the last time you had your thyroid levels checked. I just got through a bout with that cr*p. Just thought I’d mention it. Have some coffee (IV) Kristi ya know, i actually thought for a bit that maybe i didn’t have narcolepsy. i mean, the adderall works *so well* for it that i kinda just forgot that i have it. now i’ll be in the middle of something and VVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvoop! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… (VVVVVvvvvooop being the sound of my entire body shutting down all at once) i just woke up from the nap i went for 2.5 hrs ago, and i still feel leaden. i must be getting all of beauty’s sleep… i have to go to choir practice, and my bod doesn’t feel like it ramped up again from the nap. but i got 7 hrs of sleep last night! and i took a nap yesterday, too! am i gonna hafta go back to sleeping 10 hrs a night just to stay awake consistently thru the day? am i gonna end upVVVVVVVoooooop d*mn. *Dozes at keyboard a bit* what was i saying? oh yeah. am i gonna end up sleeping 5-6 hrs at a stretch twice a day again? (ie: 6 hrs of sleep at night, 5 hr nap during the day) i read somewhere that some narcoleptics can control the symptoms by taking naps frequently. butbutbut! waaah….. i’ve fallen asleep while maintaining eye contact with someone who was talking to me. my favorite narcolepsy story was the class i took from 3:40-5:25pm (REALLY BAD time of day for me. this class "cured" me of taking classes during those times). i’d been asleep for a bit (always fall asleep with a pencil in yer hand, brow furrowed in concentration), and was trying desperately to stay awake, but i kept sinking under. the world kinda swims outta focus, and my eyes cross or drift to the side and i’m out. so i’m fighting desperately to stay awake, and working to make it look like i’m wide awake. the problem is, i’d gotten my usual rep as someone who asks intelligent questions, so the teach kept glancing over at me, since i’d been even more quiet that day (heck, i ask questions when i’m awake to cover up for the times i can’t stay awake.). And here’s me, brow furrowed mightily, struggling like heck to stay conscious, with absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. so he keeps asking me if i had a question, and i manage to shake my head the first couple of times, then i rouse myself enough to mumble something like "there’s something nagging at me, but i haven’t figured it out yet. when it comes to me i’ll let you know." so, because the smartest person in class is looking perplexed over something, he started thinking about what he’d been saying, i guess, and realized that he’d been talking about Laos, but saying Cambodia. So he does his big "Oh!" and explains, and i let the light dawn on my features, huge smile on my face, "Oh, ok! That’s what it was! I couldn’t figure out…but you kept saying…" and he’s explaining, and nodding along with me, and we’re in perfect charity with each other… my fthr says "you can’t bs an old bs’er." y’all’ve been warned. gtg jt
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