After starting pred in Oct 18 my already dodgy sleep pattern deteriorated to raging insomnia. I thought I was managing with 3 or 4 hours sleep a night and the pred brain that has had me regularly put the milk in the oven!! In the early hours of this morning I discovered I was not managing as well as I thought!! I was downstairs having just made hot milk when I decided to feed the cat. I opened the pouch of food and promptly put it in my hot milk!! Not sure what was to blame but I was seriously never this scatty before pmr and pred.
Tonight I have taken everything I can take at one time so hopefully will actually get some sleep.
If I happen to reply to anything tonight please excuse what will.probably be a mad garbled response. YBB
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Sorry , haven't even read the post yet , and I will do with seriousness after I can stop laughing at how seriously hacked off your cat looks in this photograph.
If you feel like he looks my hugs go out to you xx
Yes , I was chatting with you during part of your insomnia attack , I hoped you had managed to drop off when you stopped answering .
Clearly , you had just returned to the kitchen , to bang your head on the fridge after the cat food incident and the desperate thoughts that surrounded yet another sleepless night.
Hope you get to see your useful GP soon to get some added assistance , I know you are already trying to do all you can to help it yourself ( not just drinking your weight in warm milk !) So getting those drugs increased or changed may be the best option for now , at least until you can get a few nights of good quality sleep, then you can get a routine in place to work from again.
Don't forget nap in the day if you need to , just make sure that the rabbit doesn't pinch your favourite spot , as it clearly did that to your poor cat !
I did have a nap this afternoon. I caught the rabbit in the raised flower bed the other day and her sitting on the wall watching him dig and as I got near she started a verbal tirade at me almost as if she was dropping the rabbit in the doo doo!! Other days they will happily lay together!
The other day I put a tea bag in the dishwasher soap dispenser ( and turned it on) and a dishwasher capsule in my mug and poured boiling water over it . It was only when I went to pour in the milk that I noticed something wasn't quite right !😳
I started pred in October 18 and have always had trouble sleeping too , so I sympathise. Sometimes nytol and CBD oil are enough but I resort to zopiclone when I'm desperate 😖. I'm just thankful that I no longer have to get up for work or the school run !
I dont have to go to work either thankfully. I often lose the milk and it's usually in the oven for some reason! We gave our grandson before and after school quite a bit but luckily OH is good at good at getting up. I might forget yo pick him up of lose him on the way home!!
I tried zopliclone previously when I was going thru 3 challenging life events at once. Boy did it do the trick....so much so I loved it’s effectiveness almost too much. I was afraid I would become dependent so I never asked for a refill.
Years later when I developed PTSD from work, I didn’t want to take pharma medication, so I tried an indica strain of marijuana and it worked well. Fell and stayed asleep each night, no grogginess in the morning. I used it again at higher doses of pred. No available/legal for some on here, or morally not an option, but I do appreciate I can purchase and grow it here in Canada.
Oh my word, that’s my eyes can’t seem to focus properly anymore. I honestly thought it was two cats and the one on fronts head was to the left out of shot!!!!!
I can see now a lovely lop rated bunny and rather bemused fluffy puss.
With pred and zopiclone and other bits i totally unreliable to answer texts or speak. I find texts I didn’t know I had written - food I didn’t know I ate and once a raw onion that I had chopped! Now I take them n once I am in bed!!
I hear you. I once baked a cake and didn't know I had ingredients for one. Only crumbs were left ..and one fat dog...so I am obviously generous in my zop hazed world. My sister says I wander round the house like a ghost. I find if I manage stress it doesn't hit quite so hard.
Gosh it’s so good not to be alone. Really and truly. Starting to feel part of a family who get me. I have just started infusions of cyclophosphamide monthly and weaker then ever. This forum is my go to friend xx
It’s very helpful to find other folk have the same/ similar problems with Pred head. There are certain items I have given up looking for! Can’t remember where I’ve put them and certain one day I’ll find them. The same pattern occurs with words- just can’t sometimes string a good sentence together. Either I’m looking at my husband with “help” look in my eyes or just say I really can’t remember what I wanted to say. Sometimes I’m frustrated other times I think I’ve become blasé.
I have conversations and just cant find the correct word. I them try and describe the word I am looking for to OH who looks at me as if I have lost the plot, which is quite probable!!
I was with a friend the other day and got about 1 out of every 3 words out of my mouth right - I was calling ducks, foxes. I turned and said if I say a word in the right place today let me know. A middle aged couple turned, laughed and said they knew the feeling. It can be frustrating but I decided to just accept that these things happen and as long as the word I cant find isn't FIRE! then that's ok.
There was something I was searching for yesterday (as usual) and I said to my husband don't you think I'm getting better? I feel better. He says would you just listen to yourself. Oh well brain fog is the least of my worries anymore. I haven't found it by the way.
I try and plan my trips to the toilet with whatever else I need to do or get from upstairs unfortunately I either forget the other things I wanted up there or I go and get the things i want and come back downstairs only to remember I forgot to go for the wee!!
Sounds like me. I swear blind it's in a certain place but when I eventually find it it's not where I would even consider putting it!! I think OH deliberately moves things just for his amusement!!
I lost my medical bracelet for a few days, days which happened to coincide with a lengthy road trip and overnights in another city. Fortunately no accidents, no need to worry. So the minute I decided I must have lost if forever I moved something, a book I think, and the bracelet was underneath it. In a place I would usually never put it down. I waste more time looking for things. Twice over the years I've even had sets of house keys returned to me by WarAmps. waramps.ca/ways-we-help/key...
Im pretty sure I’ve put it somewhere in the house and know that the minute I pay for a new one I will find the old one.Im too good at hiding things from burglars that’s the trouble.In a terrible dilemma now about when to officially call it lost.
I always lose things I a safe place. Chuck it in a drawer and pile stuff on it...I know where it is. The last time I put mine safe in my rucksack for next time. Who looks there to find it. Tut tut tut 🙄
I think there’s 7 years left on it.Ive always been bad at storing really important things .I think I should use the “chuck them in a drawer method “too it works so well for everything else’!
I didn’t use it to go on a lovely holiday mores the pity. I had to show it when I applied for a Nursing post back in January.The contract ends next week so I need to join the nursing bank and weirdly they need to see it again.But it’s lost.
Good suggestion though. I keep trying to think where I put it...
I know it's probably daft but having worked in the NHS for a lot of years it's worth suggesting, did you get it back from when they copied it? It's probably in your employment file.!!
I have asked them twice.I don’t think that they have it as they scan it whilst one waits but I still can’t think of another place it could be .My birth certificate is with it.I ordered a copy of that as it was half the price of a passport and I needed something to join the bank whilst waiting for a permanent post.Its annoying.
Would you consider vaping an indica dominant cannabis, or consuming a THC based edible? Works like a charm for me and has helped me through my dads death from cancer, work-related PTSD, and now Insomnia at higher doses of pred.
I understand not everyone is comfortable with consumption, or has legal access to this product.
So glad to live in Canada where I can grow and purchase it legally. Better for me than other forms of pharma meds, no groggy mornings.
I do hope you get some more rest soon as sleep deprivation can result in some wacky behaviour as has been described.
Much as.i would consider it unfortunately I dont think the.real.stuff is legal.here. Not sure? If it was illegal I have a policeman SILwho would delight in me spending time in a cell!!
As long as he brought you some good quality narcotics from the evidence cupboard before heclocked the cell door you might get a full night's sleep!! ( Just joking Officer!!)😋😂😂😂😂😘
I just drive round til I see young lads in a car...Pull up, wind windows down and chat or ask for directions .....b4 that I could stand in my cellar or attic and second hand it.🤑
As long as you don’t serve hubby the cat food pouch on toast as an early morning snack🤣. Last time I saw gp, I mentioned memory wasn’t great and putting things where no sane person would! He offered me a “little memory” test.... I chickened out🥴. Not ready to go there yet😂😂
Well about 10 years ago, not even on pred, I went to a Drs appt, had no idea why I’d made the appointment, between us we tried to think of reasons, eventually I said well while I’m here perhaps you could look at this mole which I’m sure is fine but my Oh at the time had said he thought had changed, and it turned out to be a melanoma. So thank goodness for the memory lapse on that occasion! I never remembered why I made that appointment. Serendipity!
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