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Aug. 31st, 2007 10:18 amI started taking Lyrica this week. I thought it wise to do that while Scott was home just in case it had side effects that made it unsafe for me be home alone with Delia. I suspect that part of my inability to write this week is medication induced exhaustion. I'm having a lot of trouble waking up in the mornings. I don't want to increase my caffeine intake, but I may end up doing so, at least temporarily.
So far, the Lyrica isn't helping my pain levels, headaches or anxiety. Some of that is that I just started it, and some of that is because this week has been quite stressful and has involved a lot of things that have kept me from getting the sleep I would normally. For the stress, there's been the fic due tomorrow (which I've had to ask for an extension on), pre-school preparations, an assortment of things that Scott has *had* to find time for and so on. For the sleep, Scott stays up later when he's on vacation than he does when he's working. I don't fall asleep well when he's still up, so I end up staying up later, too. We've had something at 9 a.m. every day so far this week, so I haven't gotten to sleep in at all to balance it out.
I have figured out some of my trouble in falling asleep-- Often, I'm very relaxed and ready to sleep while I'm sitting in the living room, reading and watching TV with Scott. By the time I get ready for bed and climb into bed, however, I'm stressed and wound up. Some of that is fear that I won't sleep well enough to cope with the next day (which means that I get less sleep the night before something important or difficult), but some of it is a reaction to Scott's routine. He always realizes at bedtime that there are half a dozen urgent things that he has forgotten to do, resents the urgency and resents the fact that the job he hates dictates his schedule. He can be asleep within about three minutes of lying down, in spite of all of that, but I can't. I've had to add in an extra layer of routine that starts after he gets into bed that serves simply to calm me enough that I can start trying to fall asleep.
I'm not sure there's a solution to the bed time problem. I've now articulated at least some of it and explained it to Scott, but changing it is a challenge. I'm not really even sure where to start in on the bits that are under my control. (I'm not going to touch Scott's behavior. In years past, I've tried urging him to do those end of the evening tasks much earlier in the evening. That ends with the tasks not done and both of us cranky with each other.)
I find it frustrating that not only can stupid little things become huge for me but also that other people's stupid little things can derail me entirely. Other people's stupid little things are often worse than my own because I can make decisions on my own and try to do something about them or decide to live with the consequences of not doing anything. Other people's... There's damn all I can do, but my anxiety is convinced that I must do something.
So far, the Lyrica isn't helping my pain levels, headaches or anxiety. Some of that is that I just started it, and some of that is because this week has been quite stressful and has involved a lot of things that have kept me from getting the sleep I would normally. For the stress, there's been the fic due tomorrow (which I've had to ask for an extension on), pre-school preparations, an assortment of things that Scott has *had* to find time for and so on. For the sleep, Scott stays up later when he's on vacation than he does when he's working. I don't fall asleep well when he's still up, so I end up staying up later, too. We've had something at 9 a.m. every day so far this week, so I haven't gotten to sleep in at all to balance it out.
I have figured out some of my trouble in falling asleep-- Often, I'm very relaxed and ready to sleep while I'm sitting in the living room, reading and watching TV with Scott. By the time I get ready for bed and climb into bed, however, I'm stressed and wound up. Some of that is fear that I won't sleep well enough to cope with the next day (which means that I get less sleep the night before something important or difficult), but some of it is a reaction to Scott's routine. He always realizes at bedtime that there are half a dozen urgent things that he has forgotten to do, resents the urgency and resents the fact that the job he hates dictates his schedule. He can be asleep within about three minutes of lying down, in spite of all of that, but I can't. I've had to add in an extra layer of routine that starts after he gets into bed that serves simply to calm me enough that I can start trying to fall asleep.
I'm not sure there's a solution to the bed time problem. I've now articulated at least some of it and explained it to Scott, but changing it is a challenge. I'm not really even sure where to start in on the bits that are under my control. (I'm not going to touch Scott's behavior. In years past, I've tried urging him to do those end of the evening tasks much earlier in the evening. That ends with the tasks not done and both of us cranky with each other.)
I find it frustrating that not only can stupid little things become huge for me but also that other people's stupid little things can derail me entirely. Other people's stupid little things are often worse than my own because I can make decisions on my own and try to do something about them or decide to live with the consequences of not doing anything. Other people's... There's damn all I can do, but my anxiety is convinced that I must do something.
