The cool insomnia club

Welcome to "I lost my mind to opiates" doctors have not acquired any wisdom on use or appropriateness since 1950 , the current "F u your not in pain, because if you where ,i might think of offering you an asprin or ice pack" is pathetic , I had a ground floor entry to the epidemic of stupidity ,doctors handing it out like candy ,and would not stop . I have my wife's death certificate to prove it . And now they are setting themselves up for failure again by refusing to use them or cutting people off that need them ,my palliative care doctor recently told me drink or do drugs I don't care, whatever gets you thru the day , but i will not prescribe opiates anymore ? Shes a pain manager who doesnt want to use the last tool in the tool box, for some people , this approach is already blowing up in there face ,the federal government numbers show pain patients are by and large not involved in the "epidemic" matter of fact pain patients are more likely to end there life because they can't get appropriate care , the government has known this for better part of 5 years . You can get the latest statistics from Pueblo C.O GIO. these are the worst of times for modern medicine ,they can't apply the lessons learned from the original opiate epidemic of 1915,where thousands of people didn't die because doctors sat on there hands , they didn't exactly know what was right to do they had to learn ,and now they know and won't.

Future doctors are going to look back and know exactly why people have no respect for medical professionals ,and why the latest "epidemic" is violence against doctor s, they are destroying there own credibility and reputations ,by being reactive to nonsense and doing nothing based on fact .
"1st do no harm"," and I will protect my patients from injustice " maybe in there oath ,but doesnt mean much to them anymore.

Truth ^^^^

Would you believe I went tk bed before 8pm and slept up until 5:30 am only waking up at 11 pm to go bathroom.

I`ve been up all night and it`s 6:20 in the morning here. That`s what happens when you don`t take your meds !

I had a horrible night? Toss'n &turn'n everytime I slept I was in charge of a wagon train. It was uncomfortable and smelly. For some reason we stopped to shoot cows and process them for travel. People didn't want to listen. But they reluctantly did their jobs. Don't know where we we headed cause we never arrived. I'm exhausted.

any hope of a nap snuggled in soft blankets to stay warm since it’s like the North Pole outside ???

I do that every couples weeks I lay in bed and wonder why I can’t even hit a long blink

Hope you sleep well tonight !

That’s a wonderful thing !

In the closest city to the town I live in approximately 20,000 people are currently marching to honor MLK Day. It is cold out there. I admire the marchers.

I slept great last night. Wow - do I feel better! It's amazing how big of effects the small things are.

I traveled to South America last night. One of the woman I was with wanted me to get and ambulance. But no one spoke English and I was carrying around a bag of exotic yarn. I tossed and turned until 5 am which is when I visited SA. At least thre sun was warm on the stones!

Fantastic !!!

My best friend lives in South Africa take me next time!!

I’m glad you finally did get some sleep

I got about 4 solid hours. I spent a whole lot of time in bed just reading or staring at the wall , it was cold
and I was nice and warm, finally got up because my dogs were staring a hole through my soul.

I slept last night but I'm wide awake tonight. I have a therapy appointment tomorrow so that is good.

I am a super-insomniac these days, because of my voices. The worst part is not being able to function as well as I want to because I'm so tired! Thank you for sharing about this problem.

I hope your able to get some kind of sleep soon

Thank you, Christina! I hope the same for you, too!

Another toss and turn night, but towards morning I slept. Had a hospital dream but this one was good. I was hypo and checked into a hospital. It was like a state hospital, wide open wings. Down one wing was a TV set up I liked and wanted to watch science fiction on. An old lady was sitting in front and I talked her into moving. I was a regular hypomanic chatterbox. Then it changed into a club. A twelve yr old was killing it, she had the audience in hysterics. I drove her in a Christmas green old VW van to a hose where I introduced her to her grandmother who had once belonged to that club. They had matching lunchboxes but the older lunchbox had a list of rules. The only one I remember was the rule about not giving soap as a gift. We we chatting about how the rules were changing but everything staied the same.

Why not give soap? Until my mom passed ,I bought her soap that she loved and wouldn't buy for herself .She never did things for herself,so i spoiled her.