Makes no sense
Apr. 19th, 2014 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21So, I need to keep a sleep diary for the next two weeks, because I got referred to a sleep clinic on the basis that I spend 8-9 hours in bed a night and still wake up tired. I don't think sleep apnea is the culprit- I do snore, but not all the time and not excessively. But I don't wake up with dry mouth and I don't wake up with headaches (qualified: I wake up with sinus headaches semi-often, but I am pretty sure that's not the type of headache they're talking about and I also know the direct cause of those). Also, since I'm pretty darn attuned to when I can't breathe, I think I'd notice if I was waking up because I'd stopped breathing. However, both of my parents do have sleep apnea and since apnea is mostly structural and I have the tiniest little mouth and structural problems with my sinuses, we can't dismiss the possibility completely.
What I think is going on is more like restless leg syndrome, which my father also has. I don't just move in my sleep, I flail. I've left bruises on bed partners. I've separated my shoulder in my sleep. I flip over very often and I'm aware of it most of the night.
However, this sheet they gave me for keeping the sleep diary is kind of ridiculous. I can handle the mark when you get up and when you lie down part, and shade in how long you were asleep. But then there's this "mark when you were lying down with the lights off before you fell asleep". Um. How am I supposed to know when that ended? I'm not looking at the clock when I actually fall asleep. Fortunately, my fitbit has a time until asleep function that I can read off the graph, but it seems like a kind of dumb way to ask "how long does it take you to fall asleep". Maybe it's not for most people. Maybe this is a "this is how Lucy's brain is different" issue. But yeah, I have no hope for figuring that one out, because I have no sense of time.
What I think is going on is more like restless leg syndrome, which my father also has. I don't just move in my sleep, I flail. I've left bruises on bed partners. I've separated my shoulder in my sleep. I flip over very often and I'm aware of it most of the night.
However, this sheet they gave me for keeping the sleep diary is kind of ridiculous. I can handle the mark when you get up and when you lie down part, and shade in how long you were asleep. But then there's this "mark when you were lying down with the lights off before you fell asleep". Um. How am I supposed to know when that ended? I'm not looking at the clock when I actually fall asleep. Fortunately, my fitbit has a time until asleep function that I can read off the graph, but it seems like a kind of dumb way to ask "how long does it take you to fall asleep". Maybe it's not for most people. Maybe this is a "this is how Lucy's brain is different" issue. But yeah, I have no hope for figuring that one out, because I have no sense of time.