Rotten Night!!!

Daddysaur · Post by **Daddysaur** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:59 pm

WOW Slinky, that is the opposite of my "get back to sleep" plan. Eat something and read "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene. I have been reading it for about 5 years. A snack, and a few pages of science for the masses in the middle of the night, and I'm down for the count. I'm 2/3 of the way to the end and hoping good sleep keeps me from finishing. Good luck with the nights and I hope you find something that works for you.

j.a.taylor · Post by **j.a.taylor** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:17 pm

Slinky,

Sorry to hear that you had such a miserable night, but glad to hear that your son was alright.

Hopefully, it was the Ambien acting up and not a virus or something else.

Wishing you sweet dreams the rest of the week.

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:34 pm

Thanks, DaddySaur, but w/Crohn's it isn't always a wise idea to "feed it".Sometimes its best to go to a liquid diet for a few days to rest the gut. However, your book sounds about as interesting and spell binding as reading a dictionary!! And I do have a dictionary on hand. That just might do the trick. Thanks for the suggestion.

And thank you for the good wishes for sweet dreams tonight, JA! At least the gut seems to be happier. Even dared to try a little tuna noodle casserole tonight and gut behaved! That is a good sign.

mindy · Post by **mindy** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:21 am

Slinky wrote:Since up-chucking this AM I'm finally feeling much better. I'm still very dehydrated tho. And as usual no temp according to the thermomter at doctor's office. Go figure. And even odder I bled like a stuck pig after the blood draw. None of it fits. Its like a jigsaw puzzle. I never have more than a pin prick of blood, if that, after a blood draw. And crohnies on immunosuppressants have LOTS of blood draws as Mindy can attest to. Family doctor is taking a stab at Levaquin and Aciphex. My crohn's often responds well to antibiotics and the Aciphex is a shot in the dark at possible reflux. I was really sweating he was going to insist on prednisone - he knows how averse I am to taking it, bless his heart.

Maybe reflux caused the crappy sleep. We shall see. I'm just grateful that things have eased up considerably since the up-chucking!!! I suppose I'll be hearing from my gastro. *sigh*

I sure hope you're right about its being the Ambien and I get to sleep tonight!!

Good morning, Slinky!

I'm glad you were feeling better last night! Last night I remembered having those feelings of impending doom -- and it was before I started Ambien. As I recall, the doc said it was free-floating anxiety that needed to fixate on something.

Ah yes - prednisone ... the bane of my existence. About 10 years ago I gained 40 lbs on prednisone in just a couple of months. I suspect that probably started the sleep apnea and the two together may have aggravated a heart condition and could be related to the cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure I experienced back then. My GI doc knows I absolutely refuse to take prednisone (ask me that again when I have a bad flare - I'd probably take it in a heart beat!). Also have GERD

I'm beginning to wonder if all of this stuff is somehow connected. Certainly most are inflammatory conditions and weight can increase inflammatory tendencies, too.

In any case, I try to enjoy the good days.

I hope you got some good sleep last night!

*hugs*
Mindy

Slinky · Post by **Slinky** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:51 am

Thanks, Mindy. Got about 3 1/2 hours sleep in one session last night. But at least the rest of the time it was just a matter of not being able to get to sleep and then once I woke not being able to get back to sleep. No busy mind, no worrying, and no pain or queasies. Just plain insomnia, I guess.

A little leery of eating a scrambled egg or something bland and soft yet this morning and dread taking a Levaquin on an empty stomach. So I"m procrastinating this second dose.

Yep, I also think that inflammation is an underlying common denominator in my problems as well. But there doesn't seem to be anything yet proven effective against inflammation except the d*amn steroids. Altho they are finding some antibiotics have some anti-inflammatory properties. Just not as effective as pred. *sigh* Cipro and Zithromax are two that supposedly have some anti-inflammatory properties.