I don't get it

[mousme]

Seriously. An average of nine hours of sleep every weeknight last week, including Friday, nearly twelve hours last night (zonked out at 8:30 instead of reading my book and got up around the same time today), and I'm *still* tired. Not as desperately tired as before, but still not great.

Okay, let me amend that. I'm not feeling actually tired or sleepy, but I'm not feeling rested.

I think I may heed karine's warning about anemia and head off to see a doctor. I've been borderline anemic before, and got iron prescribed to keep me functional. I don't think you can get iron without a prescription, as far as I can recall. So, medical professional it is.

Bah.

I just hope that I'll have slept enough this past week to adapt to next week's schedule change with the new job.

In other news, Pan-Pan has slowly but surely oozed onto my arm from where he was sitting on the table a good six inches away the last time I checked. I'm slowly losing all sensation in the fingertips of my left hand. I'll have to dislodge him in a moment. At least he's not directly on my keyboard, which is where he likes to be.

Okay, stuff to do.

Comments

[curtana.livejournal.com]

You could also try getting more iron in your diet, since I seem to recall from my midwife that iron supplements aren't always absorbed as well as iron from food/drink. Prune juice, if you can handle it, is very high in iron, as are dried fruits like dates or peaches, organ meats (liver, kidney, etc), dark green veggies like spinach, legumes like beans, peas, and lentils, shellfish such as clams, mussels, or oysters... Most breakfast cereals are iron-fortified, as well, so that's another way to go about it. And make sure to get plenty of vitamin C, which helps with iron absorption, and if you drink it, cut down on coffee, which is supposed to inhibit iron absorption.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Good to know, thanks!

I'm bringing banana bread, btw. See you at one!

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

Er...PanPan likes to lie on your left arm, does he? The one that's been paining you? Wouldn't have anything to do with having a cat lounged across it for portions of the day?

Ceri

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Hee!

No, I don't think so. Pan-Pan is an equal-opportunity offender, the furry slug; and my arm was hurting even when I had the computer in the bedroom, which means Pan-Pan had no access to it.

It's a good thought, though. :)

[swestrup]

When I was last seriously sleep deprived (to the extent it was damaging my health) it took a full month of 9-10 hours of sleep a night before I felt anywhere near rested, and a good 6 months of normal sleeping before I was anything like as alert as I should be.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get that. About five years ago I had a really long bout of insomnia, and it recurrs every now and then, and it always takes forever for me to get back into a functional state.

That being said, I haven't had bad insomnia in a while now. There are a couple of nights here and there which don't go well, but on the whole I've been getting between seven and ten hours of sleep a night. There is. no. good. reason. for me to be this tired right now, unless there's another physical explanation.

For once I don't think it's due to sleep deprivation. )

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

I find sometimes that if I sleep too much I get more tired. Weird.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I've had that too, if I sleep say 14+ hours in a day or something. Then I'm all groggy and disoriented. This isn't the same feeling, though. I'm just lacking energy. I go to bed tired and wake up just as tired.

So either I'm anemic or I've got some sort of sleeping disorder. Personally I'm hoping it can be fixed with iron pills. ;)