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MaxPayne CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 146 x0\|Oslo\|Norway\|\|0\|0\| Gender:	Blessed sleep Oct 24^th, 2008 at 2:45am Finally it's draining away. Had one 20mins k4 at 1 in the morning, and a mild shadow when I got up this morning at 6:30, that means I had around 5 hours of undisturbed sleep, woohooo! First time in 7 weeks. I feel like a new man:-)
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Just Plain Carl CH.com Old Timer Offline IT IS WHAT IT IS Posts: 449 Royal Oak, Michigan Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #1 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 3:11am Good for you man. I'm right there with ya. Got five hours straight last night and also last weekend. I'll race ya to end of this episode. Winner buys the beers. JPC
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MaxPayne CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 146 x0\|Oslo\|Norway\|\|0\|0\| Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #2 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 3:15am Ha ha you're on buddy, I am invited to big halloween party at the US Marines house here in Norway next friday, so I am keeping my fingers crossed
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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #3 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 3:41am Amazing how something as simple as a good nights sleep can totally change your outlook! Wishing you many more to follow! Guiseppi
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MaxPayne CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 146 x0\|Oslo\|Norway\|\|0\|0\| Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #4 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 4:08am Yes what others takes for granted is a blessing to us clusterheads:-) Hope you are getting some good ole shuteye too:-)
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Reply #5 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 5:32am

1.5hrs. in the last 48 for me. Been like this for over a month. One day I sleep then one to two I get very little if any. Not working right now so that's not a factor. I feel for those who are. Done that, many times.

Staying just ahead of the beast with the O2 and just got a brand new Opti-2 mask with the big bag on it. Used it an hour ago with some high flow to abort a kip-5 wake-up in 4min. Yes. Got it yesterday.

Wishing sleep vibes to all Clusterheads including myself, I'm half nodding on the keyboard now. ,Don

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MaxPayne CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 146 x0\|Oslo\|Norway\|\|0\|0\| Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #6 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 5:56am Had it like that for 7 weeks, so I am right with you there and know how you feel. Hope you too get some much needed sleep soon. Hang in there!
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Reply #7 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 6:33am

Hey Max
Actually got up to the alarm clock this moring. feelin pretty good.

   I am kinda cheatin though. I started back on the prednisone. Gonna take it for a five day burst to see if I can kick this bastard outta here and move on down the road.

   Tell all those marines "SEMPER FI" from an old former jarhead.

   Man, I hope all you other guys can get some sleep. That kicked my butt this time more than the pain did.

   good sleep an PF time to everyboy

   JPC

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Reply #9 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 9:23pm

Finally got some. 5hrs. straight, I actually feel normal. Thought the wife was going to have to take me to the mental ward after 48hrs of so little. But we get through it and keep the fight going.

How we don't just end up in an ambulance being taken to a padded room is a testamony to the strenghth and stamina we Clusterheads have, even when we forget we do. ,Don

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Just Plain Carl CH.com Old Timer Offline IT IS WHAT IT IS Posts: 449 Royal Oak, Michigan Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #10 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 10:06pm Good for you Don. 5 hours sleep to most people doesn't sound like much, but to us it is major. Go get some more. JPC
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JSCartier CH.com Newbie Offline Pardon But has anyone seen my brain ?? Posts: 20 Kodak, TN Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #11 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 10:34pm Don I hope you have many more nights of blessed sleep ! Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or Jason C
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Skyhawk5 CH.com Alumnus Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1320 Ypsilanti, Mi. USA Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #12 - Oct 24^th, 2008 at 11:22pm Thanks guys, like being reborn. I really get on the edge to the point of considering a trip to that padded room on my own. Being here really helps. ,Don
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Reply #13 - Oct 25^th, 2008 at 7:06am

Good to hear you got some sleep. Last night was back to the old drawingboard for me 5 hits during sleep, but very mild and only lasted 10 minutes each. Not feeling to bad though, and the usual cycle ending headaches are coming back. I usually start getting tensionheadaches at the end of my cycle that lasts about a week after the actual CH's are gone. They're annoying but like a mild breeze after battling the beast:-)

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Just Plain Carl CH.com Old Timer Offline IT IS WHAT IT IS Posts: 449 Royal Oak, Michigan Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #14 - Oct 25^th, 2008 at 10:05am It's goin to be a good day manged to get 8hrs sleep last night with 2 minor hits that went away almost immediately. Wishin The Best to You ALL JPC
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Reply #15 - Oct 25^th, 2008 at 1:06pm

Glad to hear that guys. Me too, I got 5hrs this morn. May even get out of the house today.

Max, I go thru the same 4-5 weeks of peak then a couple months of wake ups with a few higher kips but much easier to control. Makes me really have sympathy for the chronics. I actually was chronic my first 2.5yrs, don't know why I went epi. but been there since. (20+yrs)

Hoping my cycle will end before Christmas, I've had some K-10's with no X-mas cheer. Best, Skyhawk

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Reply #16 - Oct 27^th, 2008 at 3:54am

Woke up stiff and rigid today, felt really groggy and disoriented. I understood why straight away, 7 f*** hours straight woohooo!!! Grin

Saturday night we went back to wintertime here, that means we put the clock back one hour, I don't know if that has anything to with it, but I sure as hell was feeling real tired and sleepy last night. Went to bed at 10, woke up with a mild k4 at quarter to midnite. Back in bed again at five past midnite. fell asleep around half past I guess. Woke up 7:30 Grin

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Reply #17 - Oct 27^th, 2008 at 4:07am

Good for you Max,

   I'm some kinda stupid groove now. It doesn't matter what time I go to sleep, I'm up in an hour. Usually a pretty mild hit. Back to bed for 3-4 hrs sleep.

   Up now with my second of the night. (around a k8 but only lasts 10-15min) Probably be the last one but I have to get up in a few hours to go to work.

   This has sure been a wierd episode this time around.

Anyway, you guys hang in there. Today is gonna be a better day.

   PFC's On Ya
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MaxPayne CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 146 x0\|Oslo\|Norway\|\|0\|0\| Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #18 - Oct 27^th, 2008 at 4:16am Hope you get some more sleep before going to work bud, that's always hard when you have perform at work. I hate going to long boring and tiresome meetings when I am in cycle. That's when I start hating people who cannot make decisions on their own without needing to elaborate in the smallest irksome details, yuck
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Just Plain Carl CH.com Old Timer Offline IT IS WHAT IT IS Posts: 449 Royal Oak, Michigan Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #19 - Oct 27^th, 2008 at 4:26am I hate going to long boring and tiresome meetings when I am in cycle I feel the same, in cycle or out.
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MaxPayne CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 146 x0\|Oslo\|Norway\|\|0\|0\| Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #20 - Oct 27^th, 2008 at 4:37am Yea right with you there, but I don't hate people then he he
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Reply #21 - Oct 27^th, 2008 at 2:38pm

JPC, where is RO, MI.?? I'm near Ann Arbor. Yeah I'm still one night of 4-5 hrs then wake ups every hour and hit the O2. but only one Kip-9 to report on 10/24, 7:45am but stopped it with O2.

I woke up dazed and grabbed the E-tank with the NRB mask and the hit went from 5 to 9 fast, well, my new O2pti was right next to it so got on that @ 25lpm and it was gone in 6min, Yes. Got 5hrs last night, Don

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Just Plain Carl CH.com Old Timer Offline IT IS WHAT IT IS Posts: 449 Royal Oak, Michigan Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #22 - Oct 27^th, 2008 at 9:02pm Hey Don, Royal oak is only about 45 minutes NE of you. (center of the universe) I75 & 696. We should get together for a beer or three when we are able to. I am averageing about 5hrs sleep a night. Not enough for me. Working on getting the 02 tomorrow. Get some sleep man. JPC
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Reply #23 - Oct 27^th, 2008 at 9:48pm

[/size]JPC, DAAA, I just bought a handgun at the indoor range in town a couple years ago. You can rent them there to try out 1st. Just couldn't put the RO together. How stupid of me. Yes we'll make the connect sometime. The wife like to go to the MGM Casino, but I'm not yet for me. Soon.

You won't regret the O2 been a life saver for me for 20yrs. and with the newer mask even more so. Plus the 25lpm set up. I still use 15 though. Last year I only had 12lpm.

Well the beast did wake me last night several times so @ 4am took a shot and slept from 5am-11. This thread is a help keeps it in mutual perspective so to speak. , Don[size=16]

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MaxPayne CH.com Veteran Offline Posts: 146 x0\|Oslo\|Norway\|\|0\|0\| Gender:	Re: Blessed sleep Reply #24 - Oct 27^th, 2008 at 11:17pm 4 am in the morning, awake for the second time tonite, but very mild k5 again. Did the beer test last nite and had 4 beers, no hit. Maybe it's just the REM that is a problem now...
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