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[Rolan7]

Yep!  Last night I got pretty trashed online with my brother and his friends, but it was a fun time, and today I went back to the hospital for most of the day.  It was pretty chill, just chatting and playing Pokemon GO and generally keeping him company.  Giving his SO a break, she'd stayed with him both nights.

I got home to annoyed messages from my brother and friends trying to get me to play more video games.  I hope he spent time with mom, he doesn't live two hours away from her like I do.  He knows about dad but... well, they don't talk, and that's all I'll say about it.

I didn't even call her, but we did text a little.  I meant to call but was tired.  I'll call her tomorrow.

Still, I feel pretty good right now.  Going to sleep naturally again, and dad should be out of the hospital in just a few days... Sounds like they're doing the procedure tomorrow and then he recovers at home.  Which is good, he really hates hospitals.

[Vector]

ARGH WHY CAN'T I FUCKING SLEEP

Is it the staying up reading novels last night? The coffee? Regularly playing Pathologic? Little exposure to natural sunlight? WHICH

[martinuzz]

I'd wager the coffee. I noticed that as I got older, my ability to sleep after drinking coffee diminshed.

[King Zultan]

Sounds like you need more coffee, sleep is for the weak.

[Iduno]

ARGH WHY CAN'T I FUCKING SLEEP

Is it the staying up reading novels last night? The coffee? Regularly playing Pathologic? Little exposure to natural sunlight? WHICH

Probably stress, coffee, and not having a regular sleep schedule that you don't break.

Keeping caffeine to mornings-only and going to sleep at the same time everyday works pretty well. You may also be underestimating how much sleep you actually get, which causes stress and also makes you feel more tired.

[Rolan7]

I sometimes have a lot of trouble falling asleep, maybe due to sunlight but mostly anxiety. A melatonin knocks me right out in like 15 minutes, oddly abrupt one metabolized.
This weekend looking after dad wasn't so bad, but I'm a little sick of my phone. Today I'm at my computer and ready to catch up on work-
Oh my power went out at 9AM right as I woke up
O-kay it'll be back at noon, I'll just read on my phone
12:00 SMS: Oops looks like 4:30 sorry

*unhappy rolan noises*
...Guess I do have *other* chores I can do, but I was looking forward to these digital ones. And last time the power got delayed like this into late night. So glad I offered to visit the next two days instead of today.

And my ear still really hurts

[martinuzz]

Don't use the melatonin. Yes, it can help you sleep, but it also messes up your sleep/bio rythm worse than it was to start with.
Short term fix, long time trouble.

[ChairmanPoo]

Don't use the melatonin. Yes, it can help you sleep, but it also messes up your sleep/bio rythm worse than it was to start with.
Short term fix, long time trouble.

Cochrane disagrees with you.

Nineteen studies involving 1683 subjects were included in this meta-analysis. Melatonin demonstrated significant efficacy in reducing sleep latency (weighted mean difference (WMD) = 7.06 minutes [95% CI 4.37 to 9.75], Z = 5.15, p<0.001) and increasing total sleep time (WMD = 8.25 minutes [95% CI 1.74 to 14.75], Z = 2.48, p = 0.013). Trials with longer duration and using higher doses of melatonin demonstrated greater effects on decreasing sleep latency and increasing total sleep time. Overall sleep quality was significantly improved in subjects taking melatonin (standardized mean difference = 0.22 [95% CI: 0.12 to 0.32], Z = 4.52, p<0.001) compared to placebo. No significant effects of trial duration and melatonin dose were observed on sleep quality

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0063773


Now be careful because while I hold a degree of skepticism about whether melatonin suppleme ts do anything at all, these guys are picky about their metanalysis. They might just sentence you to be beaten to death with bamboo poles.

[Rolan7]

I'm not using them every night or anything, more like 1-2 weeks.  Just when I'm laying in bed and just can't remember how to sleep.  I feel like they help me reestablish the sleeping schedule I want when I've been thrown off of it, and the alternative seems to be lying awake for most of the night.

(Also my power's back on two hours early yaaaay!)

[Vector]

I think it's stress. I mean, the other things aren't helping, but I didn't have these issues in the Before Times.

[ChairmanPoo]

If its any consolation my stress is keeping me from sleeping AND giving me horrible rashes

[Vector]

If its any consolation my stress is keeping me from sleeping AND giving me horrible rashes

Yeah, it makes me feel a little better. The skin on one of my ankles randomly cracked and all peeled off a couple months ago, it was gross. Plus I got some rough skin in some ... very strange ... places.

This too shall pass :V

[dragdeler]

I visualise eggdog think about eggdog think about eggdog think about eggdog. Nothing is real but eggdog the world isnothing but an illusion that serves as background to eggdog, eggdog is the beginning and end, eggdog is the motive and the consequence, eggdog in the intent and the pupose anything that isn't eggdog doesn't matter because it is not real. God created eggdog 7 days in row. And the eight day he put his finger up his ass and then smelled it while watching eggdog.

[EuchreJack]

I visualise eggdog think about eggdog think about eggdog think about eggdog. Nothing is real but eggdog the world isnothing but an illusion that serves as background to eggdog, eggdog is the beginning and end, eggdog is the motive and the consequence, eggdog in the intent and the pupose anything that isn't eggdog doesn't matter because it is not real. God created eggdog 7 days in row. And the eight day he put his finger up his ass and then smelled it while watching eggdog.

This isn't the things that made you happy thread. 

[dragdeler]

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