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

[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. )