{"id":3507,"date":"2004-04-30T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/sleep-problem-u\/"},"modified":"2004-04-30T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T13:58:37","slug":"sleep-problem-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/sleep-problem-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep problem update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw my MD sleep doctor yesterday.  Was almost at the end of my rope, tired, which they could all see.  That was good.<\/p>\n<p>I asked for pain pills and we compromised with a 24-hour anti-inflammatory which seems to help already.  Felt better going to bed, and feel better today.<\/p>\n<p>Also got a narcolepsy drug also labeled for OSA (obstructive sleep apnea), for the sleepiness, but so far, I think it just makes me want to toss my cookies more.  I think that is a symthom of not enough sleep too.<\/p>\n<p>They also sent me home with an oxymeter.  So here I am, sleeping with a CPAP, an insulin pump, and the oxymeter.  I got completely woud up in the mess and had to take about 5 minutes to get unwrapped around 1:30.  Husband was dumb enough to ask if I slept okay.  <b>NO, I DIDN&#8217;T!<\/b>  But I think they got good data, as I woke when I often do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been going through a weird cycle &#8212; hopefully we can get this fixed.  I get progressively more tired, more strung out, then finally get to a point that I sleep the sleep of the dead &#8212; often as much as 10 hours (machine showed this to the doctor).  I predict that really good sleep is going to hit in the next couple of days.  Or at least I hope.<\/p>\n<p>I also wake up a lot during these cycles.  Last two nights were around 4 times.  I usually only have to get up once &#8212; but do have a bit of trouble falling asleep, especially when bond in medical cords <smile><\/p>\n<p>FYI:  being tired seems to increase my insulin resistance slightly.  I&#8217;m consistently running 10-20 points higher both yesterday and today, and have the temporary basal on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw my MD sleep doctor yesterday. Was almost at the end of my rope, tired, which they could all see. That was good. I asked for pain pills and we compromised with a 24-hour anti-inflammatory which seems to help already. Felt better going to bed, and feel better today. Also got a narcolepsy drug also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}