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My back is aching again

October 14, 2010 by Tricia

My back has been hurting again lately. I’m disappointed because, for the last month or so my back was doing very well.

I’ve just quit smoking and I’m taking a medication called Zyban to help me quit. This medication and I suppose quitting can make you tense … maybe my muscles are all tensed up and that’s why my back is suddenly aching again?

I haven’t been sleeping very well the last week or so either. I keep waking up after a few hours with back pain. It would be amazing to have one of those adjustable beds as I’m sure I’d finally get a good nights sleep. Not to mention the fact that my back probably wouldn’t hurt as much, if at all.

Maybe once I’ve been quit smoking for two weeks or more my body will relax and if I’m lucky my back will stop hurting again and I’ll start to get some good sleep again as well.

Do you read before bed or go right to sleep?

September 7, 2010 by Tricia

I imagine that I’m not the only person in the world who can’t get to sleep unless they read a book before going to bed. Ok I don’t mean a whole book – but at least a few pages before dozing off.

Are you like that? Or are you more like my husband – a person who falls asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow and if you’re not asleep within seconds you think there’s something wrong? That’s the way my husband is, anyway! I keep telling him that it apparently takes the average person 7 to 10 minutes to fall asleep when they go to bed, but if he doesn’t fall asleep within a minute or so he’s up and he thinks he has insomnia.

Me on the other had – the only time I can’t sleep (for the most part) is if I don’t have something to read before bed. If I try to go to sleep without reading I just toss and turn and lie awake for hours. Whereas if I pull out a good book – preferably a murder mystery or a horror story I can be falling asleep within a few page turns. I guess you could say reading is my sleeping pill. It’s definitely a sleep aid.

Needless to say I’m always looking around for book bargains, checking out Amazon books for new listings or to see what the tops sellers are etc.

I actually bought a Kindle in May and I stocked up on public domain books and free or “inexpensive” ebooks, so my reading list is full for a while … well … unless I see a good deal on a book from one of my favorite authors I suppose.

Now that’s relaxed!

April 27, 2010 by Tricia

I feel like this dog right now … I’m so tired I could fall asleep standing up or in just about any weird position. LOL

He does look relaxed though, doesn’t he? isn’t it funny how animals and babies can sleep at the drop of a hat and as I said above, in the strangest of positions?

It’s funny .. a few weeks ago I was searching for a treatment for wrinkles or rather wrinkle prevention … but this dog looks like he could use a wrinkle treatment too! Gravity is not a wrinkled dogs friend!

No sleep – again!

October 3, 2008 by Tricia

I can’t believe I had another sleepless night/day today.

I just went through that on Wednesday and luckily caught up on my sleep by having a much longer than normal sleep on Thursday. Maybe that’s why I didn’t feel tired until the very early morning hours today … but even though I was tired I couldn’t make myself go to sleep.

I really have to do something about this sleeping problem I have. It’s getting worse. I spend most of my days feeling terribly tired, yet I can’t sleep more than a few hours at night. Totally sucks.

What DID I do yesterday?

October 2, 2008 by Tricia

On my other blog, Tricia’s Musings, I just wrote a post about my really bad day yesterday. I only slept for 2.5 hours yesterday so I spent the whole day in a complete daze.

Now I can’t even remember some of the things I did yesterday. Lack of sleep takes a terrible toll on your memory. I have things that I do each day for the many websites I run and I basically had to go back and check to see if I did some of the tasks yesterday because I simply couldn’t remember if I did them or not. I couldn’t even remember if I took all of the medications that I take each and every day either. Odd.

Have you ever been so tired that you couldn’t remember things you did a few hours before? I guess it’s kind of like drinking too much! Strange feeling.