Posted by jackie on November 24, 1998 at 11:34:07:
How does everyone handle severe sleep deprivation? I'm
having a kind of "rebound" episode, which I've never
before experienced. Meaning that I'm not having awful
headaches, but dull headaches that often keep me up
at night. I'm grateful for not having terrible pain.
But I'm like a zombie at work, and I feel awful. Last
night, for instance, I awoke in the middle of the night
with one of these headaches. I took a Tylenol pm.
Went back to sleep. Woke a few hours later with another
H/A. Didn't know what to do. I didn't want to take
another pm pill if it was close to my wakeup time, because
I'd feel groggy from the pill. Finally the alarm
went off. Here I am at work, barely able to function.
My quality of life is zero. And I don't know what to do.
I feel like the doctors are useless, like I can do my
own experimenting with OTC meds myself. What do you
guys do? How do you function at work?
Jackie