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[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I don't feel well rested after sleeping, instead I feel like I've been through hell and back again. I get the worst headaches and eye-aches once I lay down, and if I sleep I feel like my head is about to explode once I wake up. Add to that my long list of night terrors, and bedtimes becomes something I'd rather avoid totally.

[–] Chemical 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Get checked for sleep apnea and hypertension

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

My hypertension is through the roof, the problem with it is, it's usually too high for medical instruments to measure. I can't take blood pressure meds because they upset my GI tract to the point I can't digest food and I end up in the hospital. So, I have to learn to live with it.

I already suffer from dry throat so severe it wakes me up in agonizing pain most of the night, so CPAP therapy is out for me. Maybe I should try the self-chloroforming option that they used to use in the old west for sleep problems.

[–] Chemical 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They make a clonidine patch. You may have significant gastritis which prohibits you from taking pills, might have that looked at. For the dry throat, they make a nose fitting for CPAP but now also have a device they install for the airway. There’s always a dental appliance as well but data is not as good as compared to CPAP. Let me know and maybe we can figure this out. Need that BP controlled

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

I do have significant gastritis, including eroded esophageal rings from too much acidity in my gut. I have a GI doctor but after extensive testing, he hasn't found anything to explain my gut pain and constant gut distress.

I do need to get my BP controlled somehow, but the pills make things "down there" much worse. I'm not sure what alternatives are out there. I need to get back to a general MD and find out if something else is possible.

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