I just took Ambien and it's doing nothing. AMA. (Page 2 of 4)

Hot.

Damn.

Spätzle (I love the Macs' hold down for umlauts feature) is the best. I'm annoyingly grounded travel-wise at the moment, though. And again, the sleepypills, they do nothing!

Are you getting ANY sleep at all?

We need to figure how to get you some spaetlze at some point. Will you be coming for the 10th anniversary race? I'm assuming you can travel by October.

Sleep is the cousin of death

Fair warning: I went to the doctor about this not-sleeping thing and he was like, "try taking two." So, either this works and I finally get some shut-eye and/or start talking about THE VOICES and PHIL IS A COMMUNIST on this thread, or I'm up past 3 a.m. writing about how my nextdoor neighbor definitely rode the sausage fantastic at around 1ish.

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DRUGS.

I might hold the mushrooms. Rest sounds good, though.

Yes.

Also, FREE COCO!
Let coco race!
Let coco race!
Let coco race!

This sounds like a real problem even though you being silly about it?  I know you've seen the doctor about it and he is probably wayyyyy smarter than I am but I have to ask.  Do you do any physical labor type of work daily?  I know that you are a writer and probably make your living writing.  The only times in my life that I have suffered from insomnia were times that I didn't work hard enough.  By work I mean real sweating hardcore physical work.  Maybe now would be a good time to make some kind of change like joining a crossfit gym or taking up cycling or mountain biking.  I understand that don't know your personal life just trying to offer some help.  Hope you sleep well soon.

PS doctors suck and will push pills all they can it's no surprise he told you to take another pill.  I was supposed to be in a wheel chair 10 years ago according to a panel of quack doctors and you saw me, I'm the picture of health lol

I haven't been doing any physical work lately, and I'm used to going to the gym regularly. I haven't really had much motivation to do much of anything because I've been barred from doing most of what I actually enjoy doing while this stupid concussion heals. I tend to do a lot of yoga, so the fact that I'm having balance and concentration issues is a big no there. I should probably go run it off anyway, but I'm just having problems caring lately and that's a big issue I brought up yesterday at the doctor's office along with the insomnia issues.

I'm not a huge fan of managing issues with pills, either. I'd prefer this to be a temporary thing while I figure out how to enjoy, I dunno, whatever it is that people who are on a limited work/driving schedule do. Speaking of pills, I don't really remember making the last couple posts on this thread last night. With The Ambiens, I'm guessing that's probably a success?

Look up some the various government studies on "mild" TBI (traumatic brain injury).  There has been a ton learned from the mixed blessing of so many soldiers, Marines, and Airmen surviving IED induced roll-overs.  If you do not take this into your own hands your recovery can be prolonged or filled with rocky highs and lows.

That is not fear mongering because you do likely have the other issues that go along with their experiences, but the recovery of the specific issues of mild TBI are applicable to everyone that suffers head trauma.  The results of their (Walter Reed chief among them) work has sadly spread little to the civilian medical world.

Stepping off soap box but contact me directly if you need some resources.

Practice card tricks. There's some great how to videos on Youtube. Keep you dexterity sharp.