Tag: drowsiness

Thank Goodness

I am tired of napping!  i mentioned before that I’m on 2 sets of muscle relaxants for Spasticity.  they both cause drowsiness so about an hour after taking them the drowsiness knocks me for 6 and sometimes it’s completely embarrassing.  last week, I went to the dentist and actually was falling asleep in the dentist’s chair! – i just couldn’t help myself!!  WTF???

Now i didn’t start taking them at the same time, so I know that my body is used to the 1st one (that caused me to be sleepy at first and then soon after there was no effect) – it was when i started the 2nd one that i just started getting so sleepy that i couldn’t help but go to sleep even if for a short time (once it was during the week at work, i put my alarm to go off in 7 mins and i swear that it was the best 7 mins of my life, i woke up COMPLETELY refreshed) – but alas i can’t afford to that everyday.

This looks just like me when i took that 7 min. nap

I called my doctor’s office yesterday and told them that something had to give because the drowsiness is not going away.   I was so happy when the nurse called back and told me that i can cut out the dose that i take during the day, but i should keep taking it at nite.  I have no problem with that because nite time is time to sleep anyway – unless i have to be out, then i’ll have to deal somehow.

I cut out the dose this morning and no glazed over eyes, no sleeping, no napping – NOTHING!!  Hopefully, the dosage of that medication was so small (2mg 3x daily) that it won’t make too much of a difference my NOT taking it as often.

Effin Side Effects – AGAIN!

so the side effects for both spasticity drugs are like the disease itself – totally inconsistent!  They both cause unbelievable drowsiness, in fact, a friend used to try to encourage me to take naps during the day; he’d be happy to know that sometimes these days i take naps by force – not really because i want to.  so anways, i’m on 2 medications (1 of them is 2mg 3x a day – how powerful do u think that is!) and I take them both at 8am, 4 pm and midnite.  when i take the 8am dose – i’ve already started working and it’s unreal just how sleepy i get SOME days.  On those days, the drowsiness kicks me in the face around 9 – 9:30 – i always fight thru it and by 10:00, i’m good.  when i take it at 4? NOTHING – ABSOULTELY NOTHING!!!! cept for the time on the truck in Miami carnival and i was bepin like fus time (nodding off like the first time ever)! 
well at midnite, it’s no biggie because 9x out of 10, i’m already in the bed!

Saturday nite, De ParangSide had their kick off to parang season and of course i was at the fete at midnite when my handy dandy alarm went off.  i was good for a while and then here comes the drowsiness.  Now falling asleep at home is 1 thing, dozing in the middle of a party?  totally nother story!!!  but it was unbelievable and i couldn’t fight it…so what did i do?  i had to slink off to the back of the place, hide in a corner and sleep for about 1/2 hr!  when i was done, i woke up and continued partying like nothing had happened.

there is no rhyme or reason to when I’ll be sleepy and for how long.  it’s crazy!

Muscle Relaxants

i already mentioned that my neuro prescribed the muscle relaxants for my Spasticity.  Well one of the side effects is drowsiness.  I work from home and so EVERYTHING is done virtually; meetings, presentations – everything.

Well, today i was on a conference call – an hour long one (i honestly believe that as a company we spend waaaaay too much time on calls, but that is jes me; as usual, i digress).  I was sleepy beyond belief!  It took so much out of me NOT to fall asleep.  I didn’t really focus on the blasted call because i was so focused on NOT fallin asleep.  At 1 point, i think i almost snored….it might have been just as i caught myself from falling off meh damn chair!!!!

I have another call tomorrow from 3-4:30…wish me luck!!!  I really really hope that this is not what i have to endure for the next 6 months or so; i may have to look into other options.

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