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(Message started by: LadyElaine on Dec 4^th, 2005, 11:09am)

Title: Cluster question!
Post by LadyElaine on Dec 4^th, 2005, 11:09am

Have any of you fought a cluster so hard, that after wards you were just so wore out you fell asleep where you were instead of going to bed?
I do this a lot when I get hit and can't get the pain down and have to fight extra hard. It wears me out to the point when the pain is gone, I just fall asleep where I am.
I have fallen to sleep sucking o2 and being on my knees and my head on the floor. Buddy is use to finding me asleep on the floor. Last night it was cold outside and I feel asleep on the porch. The cold never brothered me.
Just wondered if I am the only one that does this.

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by zanychef on Dec 4^th, 2005, 12:09pm

I too can fall asleep straight after a hit and have often done so my favourite trick being to fall asleep in the chair still smoking my post hit cigarette :-/

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by Kevin_M on Dec 4^th, 2005, 12:26pm

on 12/04/05 at 11:09:42, LadyElaine wrote:

I just fall asleep where I am.

ooooh yes.

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by Melissa on Dec 4^th, 2005, 12:32pm

Yup. Most times I do make it back to bed, or the recliner, but I have fallen asleep with my forehead kissing the tile in the bathroom. :-/

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by Opus on Dec 4^th, 2005, 12:33pm

Yes, when the hit is down to the point that I can navigate I get the couch. Falling asleep outside in 10 degree or less temps could be deadly. If I am hit at work I will sit down so I will fall over and wake up.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on Dec 4^th, 2005, 12:39pm

Quote:

but I have fallen asleep with my forehead kissing the tile in the bathroom.

Well at least that way, you can't fall any further. ;)

It's the falling asleep with a cigarette going that would worry me.

I pretty much manage to stumble my way back to bed or couch.

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by unsolved1 on Dec 4^th, 2005, 12:42pm

Unless it's a night time hit, I don't go to sleep afterwards. I try to press on with the day even though I'm exausted.

UNsolved

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by LadyElaine on Dec 4^th, 2005, 1:11pm

These are night attacks. When I wake up there are a kip 10 hard to get the pain down.
I been real lucky as far as my day time. I don't seem to be getting hit except at night. Wakes me up with unreal pain.
I get on the floor and rock when I have a cluster. I always have. I have this fear of falling, I am kind of off balance when I have them. Plus my eye waters so much it clouds my vision. I am already tired when waken at 2 am and then have to fight a hour or more just drains me.
Have you ever felt like you were afaid to move when the pain stopped. Some times I am almost afraid if I move it will make the pain start again.

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by E-Double on Dec 4^th, 2005, 1:15pm

Yuppers!!!! Pass out where ever it left me

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by broomhilda on Dec 4^th, 2005, 1:23pm

on 12/04/05 at 13:11:16, LadyElaine wrote:

Have you ever felt like you were afaid to move when the pain stopped. Some times I am almost afraid if I move it will make the pain start again.

:-/ Yup, thats why sometimes I find myself asleep on the bathroom floor...or I just don't sleep

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Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by JenniferD on Dec 4^th, 2005, 1:42pm

same here......been left too spent to even get up off the floor. finally out of exhaustion, just fell asleep.

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by Jonny on Dec 4^th, 2005, 2:10pm

Nope, never on the floor.

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by Callico_Kid on Dec 4^th, 2005, 7:24pm

I used to, but have found that if I will just stay up until the last one leaves at about 2 I can handle the pain better. I can't handle waking up to a bad one anymore.

jc

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by Charlie on Dec 5^th, 2005, 12:45am

I could never go right back to bed. After spending time banging the kitchen chair against the wall, I moved to a recliner and passed out for awhile....most of the time anyway. That's how I discovered that sleeping there would sometimes eliminated one attack at night.

Charlie

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by Cerberus on Dec 5^th, 2005, 5:46pm

yup.... almost every time.

'Bus

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by burnt-toast on Dec 5^th, 2005, 5:58pm

Absolutely been there and done that. Fighting off the tough ones drains everything out of me and I often wake up wherever the last one left me.

Tom

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by BlueMeanie on Dec 5^th, 2005, 9:23pm

on 12/04/05 at 11:09:42, LadyElaine wrote:

Have any of you fought a cluster so hard, that after wards you were just so wore out you fell asleep where you were instead of going to bed?

Just about EVERY time.

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by Kate in Oz on Dec 6^th, 2005, 6:37am

on 12/05/05 at 21:23:02, BlueMeanie wrote:

Just about EVERY time.

Me too, I tend to get most of my hits during sleep so by the time I'm awake they're in full swing and the pain is so intense - don't have to tell you that - by the time it's easing off my body hurts from rocking and I just fall alseep in that position - usually up on my knees on the couch. Sleep is what I'm beggin for by that stage. And of course it makes it easier for when the next one comes around - don't wake up anyone as I stumble about getting the hot water bottle :-/

Kate

Title: Re: Cluster question!
Post by aprilbee on Dec 6^th, 2005, 2:10pm

I have fallen asleep MANY times in the shower...I wake up with the hot water gone and freezing my ass off!! at'll wake you up quick! ;)