{"id":11032,"date":"2008-03-14T10:52:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/03\/14\/11032.html"},"modified":"2008-03-14T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T17:52:56","slug":"sick-also-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/03\/14\/sick-also-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick; also tired"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometime around this past Sunday or Monday, I developed a sore throat; also, half my nose is clogged up, and I'm coughing occasionally. Which made me unhappy, but wasn't such a big deal, especially compared to the Death Flu that everyone else has been getting.<\/p>\n

Until I tried to sleep.<\/p>\n

For the past four nights, it's gone like this for most of the night (with each cycle lasting maybe a minute or two):<\/p>\n

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  1. Start to drift off.<\/li>\n
  2. Startle awake at a small noise coming from my throat.<\/li>\n
  3. Realize I'm holding my breath.<\/li>\n
  4. Start breathing.<\/li>\n
  5. Repeat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When this kind of thing has happened in the past, NyQuil has gotten me over the threshold into sleep. And\/or sleeping sitting up.<\/p>\n

    This week, nothing's helped. NyQuil, valerian, sitting up, cough drops, elevating my head, anything else I can think of. I tried digging out my Ambien last night, but couldn't find it, and anyway I'm not sure it's a great idea to take Ambien if what's waking me up is lack of breathing. (Though I'm not sure that's what's happening.)<\/p>\n

    Each night, I've apparently eventually gotten some actual sleep, 'cause there's a period between around 4 a.m. and around 9 or 10 a.m. each night that I don't remember, and because I'm still vaguely functional during the day. But I've gotten groggier and groggier as the week's gone on.<\/p>\n

    According to various medical sites, the main things to do for a sore throat are drink lots of liquids and get lots of sleep. And wait for your body to deal with it.<\/p>\n

    I'm hoping the sleep part of that is optional.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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