Does weary mean wiser?
Sep. 8th, 2002 05:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoStage One of Operation Get Your Ass Out Of Bed On Time To Get To Work has been successful.
I set the alarm for five this morning so that tomorrow when I got up at three I wouldn't be horrifically mortified. Or just sleep through the alarm blissfully. Now I am going to put together a list of Things I Can Do That Will Not Wake The Housemate. I think that will be useful in the upcoming months.
Idle concern #59257: A week from now I leave for Salt Lake City for a week, where my schedule will be M-F 9-5 or likely something very similar. Then I'll go back to F-T 5-1.30, and then in October I'll probably go to Los Angeles for another M-F 9-5 and back to SFO for a week and then back to LA for a week and then back to SFO. Will my brain explode due to the constant tinkering with my Circadian cycles? Or will I just become a cranky bitch who sleeps sixteen hours a day? (Or, worse yet, doesn't sleep at all.)
Idle concern #59262: It has been politely suggested that I do something about the noise I make when I sleep, if I am going to be sleeping in the same room as people who find themselves awoken by something that sounds like a grizzly bear who's had its upper lip caught in a wood chipper which badly needs to be oiled.
Does anybody have any remedies they've had success with, or have heard glowing reviews of, short of surgery? Now that I have medical insurance, I'm going to try and get them to look into the sleep apnea thing, but it's not going to happen this week.
I set the alarm for five this morning so that tomorrow when I got up at three I wouldn't be horrifically mortified. Or just sleep through the alarm blissfully. Now I am going to put together a list of Things I Can Do That Will Not Wake The Housemate. I think that will be useful in the upcoming months.
Idle concern #59257: A week from now I leave for Salt Lake City for a week, where my schedule will be M-F 9-5 or likely something very similar. Then I'll go back to F-T 5-1.30, and then in October I'll probably go to Los Angeles for another M-F 9-5 and back to SFO for a week and then back to LA for a week and then back to SFO. Will my brain explode due to the constant tinkering with my Circadian cycles? Or will I just become a cranky bitch who sleeps sixteen hours a day? (Or, worse yet, doesn't sleep at all.)
Idle concern #59262: It has been politely suggested that I do something about the noise I make when I sleep, if I am going to be sleeping in the same room as people who find themselves awoken by something that sounds like a grizzly bear who's had its upper lip caught in a wood chipper which badly needs to be oiled.
Does anybody have any remedies they've had success with, or have heard glowing reviews of, short of surgery? Now that I have medical insurance, I'm going to try and get them to look into the sleep apnea thing, but it's not going to happen this week.
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Date: 2002-09-08 12:07 pm (UTC)In my case, I have an allergy to... something in my pillow, probably dust or dust mites. I got one of those anti-allergen pillow cases and I put the pillow in that and then put a regular pillow case over it. That seems to make quite a big difference, though I have to change the outer case every couple days and the inside one every week or so. Perhaps if I were to change the pillowcase every day that would help even more.
I also got a snore-guard created for me by my dentist. This keeps my lower jaw from slipping back, and this seems to make a difference as well.
I have also tried taking allergy drugs (like Flonase) - this works well also. If I have taken the meds I don't have to change the pillowcase as often, and vice versa. The drugs seem slightly more effective than the pillowcase alone, but not enough to make me take the drugs all the time.