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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I can't sleep on my sides at all. I used to every night when I was a kid, but around my early to mid 20's when I put on a lot of muscle mass from working out, on top of the fact that I smoke, I can't sleep on my sides anymore because my arms will fall asleep. I mean full-out. I've woken up and had zero feeling from my shoulder to my fingertips and I have "flop" my arm into the wall until I get the pins and needles and regain control of it. I've only slept on my back for the last 20 or so years.
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I've dealt with that for 20years or so. Wake up and my entire arm from shoulder to fingers would be numb. Have to bang it on the bed to get the feeling back. My trouble though is caused by what I feel is nerve damage in my neck due to the brain tumour and the pressure it was exerting before the surgery and then after effects of the surgery. It is not a nice feeling to wake up to.
Oh... do I feel for you. It's been a while since it happened bad to me, but that's only because I sleep only on my back every night and I'm fortunate enough not to be the type to roll around after I actually get to sleep (after those hypnic jerks stop for the night).
I remember the first time it happened. I jumped up out of bed and was freaking the hell out and imagining I'd have to get the whole arm amputated or something. Literally whipping my body back and forth to throw the dead arm into a pole in my grandma's basement I was living in at the time until I finally got the worst pins and needles sensation I'd ever felt and finally got control of my arm again.
I really hope you don't go through that often. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Oh, just fwiw I didn't have a sleep study, it was just a regular EEG to check for seizure disorder (since that was the most concerning possibility). It took less than an hour. They're not cheap either, but not nearly as time-consuming or expensive as a sleep study!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well... if I could afford a sleep study like my brother did, maybe I'd do it. But, yanno...
I also think with a little sleuthing you could probably figure out what's going on, by noticing what comes before, during, and after ... And I think you could probably help it go away by moderating your habits a bit. But anyway ... Quote:Well DANG!
I too, have suffered from insomnia since I was 5 years old. I remember specifically feeling a sense of abandonment every night when everybody else would easily fall asleep and I'd be up with my own thoughts until 1 or 2 AM almost every school night at a very young age.
Funny thing is, I don't really have insomnia anymore. Just all these other issues, compounded by the fact that I can rarely go a full night without having to go to the bathroom (which I've learned never to have a cigarette otherwise I won't get back to sleep for hours).
I don't think there's really any big mystery behind any of it. Even though I've been sober for three years and haven't smoked any weed for about five, I still smoke a lot and I actually drink about 3 times as much coffee than I used to ever since I stopped drinking. Maybe it is sleep apnea, but in the case of my brother the reason he was sent to get a sleep study is because his regular doctor visit was so terrible they wanted to know what was going on. I'm sure my visit today would not be as good as it was last year, but last visit turned up great for everything. Even when I was working and I had that great visit, I still had these jerks that would prevent me from sleeping. They do happen quite a bit more often now though...
In fact, my old man just woke me up from an early sleep tonight.
Quote:DOUBLE DANG!
I haven't been getting very good sleep recently and staying up real late along with getting up early in the morning, so tonight when I finished work I cooked my dinner about 4 hours earlier than usual and would have gone right to sleep if I didn't have about 2 or 3 more jerks... but I finally made it and then the phone woke me up. :)
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BTW... My bedroom doors are finished and hung. That looks nice. :)
And tomorrow I'll get my tables back. I just didn't feel like doing it tonight... and I still don't.
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I was talking with some relatives back east - one cousin has been coughing since November. I shouldn't feel too bad about still coughing and being tired after a couple of weeks.
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Quote:Well, I know when I was a kid it was just too HOT to get to sleep, at least in the summer. But I got to the "insomnia" thing later. I was seven or eight, maybe, pondering the imponderables until the wee hours of the morning ... It's a big scary universe, nobody can protect me. What is reality? Who am I, really? After about a year of that, I learned to fall asleep just to escape those thoughts.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well... if I could afford a sleep study like my brother did, maybe I'd do it. But, yanno...
I too, have suffered from insomnia since I was 5 years old. I remember specifically feeling a sense of abandonment every night when everybody else would easily fall asleep and I'd be up with my own thoughts until 1 or 2 AM almost every school night at a very young age.
Quote:Welcome to the club!
Funny thing is, I don't really have insomnia anymore. Just all these other issues, compounded by the fact that I can rarely go a full night without having to go to the bathroom
Quote:Well your problem is partly situational. But it sounds like anxiety is driving you, too. Instead of wrecking your sleep and potentially your health, is there a more direct way of addressing the things that make you anxious? I mean, I know that you're working hard to fix the things you can fix, but are there things that you worry that you CAN'T fix?
I don't think there's really any big mystery behind any of it. Even though I've been sober for three years and haven't smoked any weed for about five, I still smoke a lot and I actually drink about 3 times as much coffee than I used to ever since I stopped drinking. Maybe it is sleep apnea, but in the case of my brother the reason he was sent to get a sleep study is because his regular doctor visit was so terrible they wanted to know what was going on. I'm sure my visit today would not be as good as it was last year, but last visit turned up great for everything. Even when I was working and I had that great visit, I still had these jerks that would prevent me from sleeping. They do happen quite a bit more often now though...
In fact, my old man just woke me up from an early sleep tonight. I haven't been getting very good sleep recently and staying up real late along with getting up early in the morning, so tonight when I finished work I cooked my dinner about 4 hours earlier than usual and would have gone right to sleep if I didn't have about 2 or 3 more jerks... but I finally made it and then the phone woke me up. :)
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I have a question about that closet you've been asking about. I have to say I don't understand why, or in what way, you believe the shape would be "weird". You have a 15'X15' room. The typical closet is about 25" deep (interior space, has to accommodate a clothes hangar plus clothes and a few inches room) add about 4" for frame and door ... anyway, a closet down the entire length of one wall would be more than adequate for husband and wife. There are a few things I, personally, would appreciate that they don't normally build nowadays. Usually, there is a shelf above the clothes rod, but because it's hard to access most people use it for things like blankets, luggage, sports equipment etc. I would prefer that to be a separate cabinet with its own door because that way those doors will almost always be closed and the items up there wouldn't get dusty. Then, women appreciate certain kinds of built-ins: cubbies or shelves for shoes, purses, and other non-hanging items. Also, since most hanging items are short (Tshirts, shirts, jackets) a part of the closet can accommodate double rods (one over the other). And finally ... drawers below the waist, shelves above... makes access easier.
Maybe look into "Love it or List It" or some of the other shows to look at the various closets and see what appeals to people?
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I can't sleep on my sides at all. I used to every night when I was a kid, but around my early to mid 20's when I put on a lot of muscle mass from working out, on top of the fact that I smoke, I can't sleep on my sides anymore because my arms will fall asleep. I mean full-out. I've woken up and had zero feeling from my shoulder to my fingertips and I have "flop" my arm into the wall until I get the pins and needles and regain control of it. I've only slept on my back for the last 20 or so years.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I've dealt with that for 20years or so. Wake up and my entire arm from shoulder to fingers would be numb. Have to bang it on the bed to get the feeling back. My trouble though is caused by what I feel is nerve damage in my neck due to the brain tumour and the pressure it was exerting before the surgery and then after effects of the surgery. It is not a nice feeling to wake up to.
Oh... do I feel for you. It's been a while since it happened bad to me, but that's only because I sleep only on my back every night and I'm fortunate enough not to be the type to roll around after I actually get to sleep (after those hypnic jerks stop for the night).
I remember the first time it happened. I jumped up out of bed and was freaking the hell out and imagining I'd have to get the whole arm amputated or something. Literally whipping my body back and forth to throw the dead arm into a pole in my grandma's basement I was living in at the time until I finally got the worst pins and needles sensation I'd ever felt and finally got control of my arm again.
I really hope you don't go through that often. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
First time it happened to me it freaked me out as well but once I realized what was happening I just banged my arm on the bed till the feeling came back.
It doesn't happen too often but still annoying when it does.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well your problem is partly situational. But it sounds like anxiety is driving you, too. Instead of wrecking your sleep and potentially your health, is there a more direct way of addressing the things that make you anxious? I mean, I know that you're working hard to fix the things you can fix, but are there things that you worry that you CAN'T fix?
Yeah... I've got two speeds. 200% or 0%. That's about it.
There are just so many things that I can fix. I need to get that down to a more managable level first. I told my dad that I decided that even though I like the idea of spackling everything at once, and painting as much as possible, I need to get everything else done upstairs before I even start working on the windows. That's going to be a huge task I don't want to rush and it was making the current work feel overwhelming for me. They will not even be started until all of the 2nd level baseboard and trim are complete. Getting my dentures finally done next week should be a load off as well...
As for not worrying about things I can't fix, I think I'm doing a pretty good job of that these days. These political issues have become more of a joke to me than anything else. And I don't let the fact that the government is spying on everybody all the time bother me anymore at all either. Me and a few other billion people, right? Whatever.
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I have a question about that closet you've been asking about. I have to say I don't understand why, or in what way, you believe the shape would be "weird". You have a 15'X15' room. The typical closet is about 25" deep (interior space, has to accommodate a clothes hangar plus clothes and a few inches room) add about 4" for frame and door ... anyway, a closet down the entire length of one wall would be more than adequate for husband and wife. There are a few things I, personally, would appreciate that they don't normally build nowadays. Usually, there is a shelf above the clothes rod, but because it's hard to access most people use it for things like blankets, luggage, sports equipment etc. I would prefer that to be a separate cabinet with its own door because that way those doors will almost always be closed and the items up there wouldn't get dusty. Then, women appreciate certain kinds of built-ins: cubbies or shelves for shoes, purses, and other non-hanging items. Also, since most hanging items are short (Tshirts, shirts, jackets) a part of the closet can accommodate double rods (one over the other). And finally ... drawers below the waist, shelves above... makes access easier.
Maybe look into "Love it or List It" or some of the other shows to look at the various closets and see what appeals to people?
I found a mock up I made in paint years ago, to illustrate the "weird" shape of the closet. Keep in mind that I wasn't using any sort of legitimate arcitect or CAD program, so although the measurements are correct, the illustration of them is not.
That "box" on the left side is actually quite a bit wider than it looks in the picture. In the picture it looks like a tiny inconvenient nub, but at 18" compared to the 37.5" of deep space to the right of it, it is actually about 1/3rd of the closet. Even more, if you consider that the closet begins immediately on the left wall, but there are 7.5" of the right side hidden.
(If you look at where I put the arrow up/down on the floor with the 42" deep, that's probably where that annoying nub would come to in reality.
Even where the nub is, the closet is fairly deep at 26.5", but to the right of it it's a full 42" deep. There's a lot of potential to waste a lot of that space if I don't do this right.
Keep in mind too, that there will be bi-fold doors on either side that block about five inches on either side when th
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Sore legs had to walk down and up 10 flights of stairs yesterday. Elevators were out as they were doing routine work on them. Not fun.
Also I am having some trouble with stupid thing.
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What is the source of that "box", SIX? Is it part of another room? Just curious.
Yes, I see what you mean by odd shape. I can think of a few things to do ... for example, the space in front of the "box" is actually deep enuf for hanging clothes, si you might be able to put in a tall shelf, and two clothes rods (one over the other) preserving nearly all of the remaining space which ... seems hard to fill efficiently but could be something like a walk-in. Definitely needs some thought, and visualization is not in my wheelhouse! But, I'll give it a try.
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NAH, I don't mean worrying about politics or the surveillance state. I post about it, but it's not something that worries me overall. More like practical things ... what are your plans for retirement? How will you get medical care? Are there any jobs that you could get to supplement your savings? (Right now seeing money going out, not coming in.) I admit I was worried that you quit your job, and still am worried that you don't have one lined up. The economy could go sour pretty quickly, and jobs might not be so easy to find. (I have a very Depression-era attitude towards jobs which is ... hang on for all you've got, and don't let go until you have another one lined up. The people that we have employed were IMHO far too casual with their jobs and are now paying for the fact that they quit to live the free life ... and they kind of expect us to bail them out, while we're just trying to save money for daughter's future.) So not sure if your worries line up with mine, but there are long-term things that I would be planning for if I were in your shoes. They would cetainly be on my mind!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Quote:Jezz, that's more exercise than I get in a month! Good for muscle tone but- oy vey!!!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Sore legs had to walk down and up 10 flights of stairs yesterday. Elevators were out as they were doing routine work on them. Not fun.
Also I am having some trouble with stupid thing.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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That right-hand wall in blue - is that a freestanding wall sticking out into the room or is it part of the bedroom interior walls? If it's a freestanding wall, how much space is there to the bedroom wall to the right? In other words - could you take down that wall and extend the closet rightward all the way to the room wall?
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