Things that shake a lot in the night (without batteries)

[featherynscale]

Well, the Dionysia happened, everybody seemed to have a good time, and nobody was immediately struck by divine wrath, so that's good.

I did (apparently) get bitten by something really exciting in the middle of the night last night that raised a big welt on my throat and caused me to wake up at 4:30 in the morning with a serious case of something like amphetamine tremblies. It took me about 30 minutes to calm my body down enough to get back to sleep. I was on the verge of crawling into bed with kittenpants and triadruid to get someone to squish me so I could stop shaking (what, me autistic? surely not), but it seemed rude to wake up the rest of the household just because I was having a weird reaction to something, especially at that time of the morning. I didn't have any emotional or mental content with this, no anxiety, just the physical manifestation of anxiety, so that was really really odd. I didn't notice the welt until this morning, so it may or may not be related. Just a theory.

Also, I was having dreams that I was married(possibly?) to druidevo and we had rented a little cabin in the woods, where we were repeatedly menaced by Rasputin(?), who I stabbed with a kitchen knife. Fun all over, really.

Comments

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

Have you been keeping up with your meds? The physical trembling can be a symptom of the thyroid out of balance. I sometimes have that problem when I first wake up, and the MD's told me it was probably due to that (of course, I don't need to be treated for thyroid problems or anything though...).

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I have been taking them about every other day. Tremors with regard to thyroid are usually a sign of too much thyroid activity, so I wouldn't think that every other day would give me overdose signs. *shrug* Hard to say.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Every other day? I thought the deal you struck with the devil doctor was that he'd give you enough pills to get through to your actual bloodwork, provided you took the dosage properly so he could get an accurate reading... I'm just sayin'.

On the other score, I realize you said you didn't notice the welt until morning, but Anaphylactic Shock is not fun from what I hear; please feel free to wake somebody up next time, even if it is just to squish you. Consider this formal permission, in writing, dear. *smooches gently on the other side of your neck*

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to take them every day, I'm just not very good at remembering to take pills. (And I need to make my bloodwork appointment - thanks for reminding me). Besides, I figure I'm only actually going to take the damned things about 4 times a week, so it's better if I'm on the dosage that gets me to the right level taking them 4 times a week, right?

And I'm sure I would have woken someone up if I had felt that it was going to be serious. (Yes, I know there's a flaw in that reasoning. I just don't want you and C. to worry about me or feel like you have to take care of me.)

::smackdown::

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

I just don't want you and C. to worry about me or feel like you have to take care of me.

Damnit, you're family. We worry about you and want to take care of you because we love you. This will be true regardless of whether or not you wake us up in the middle of the night.

:P

Love you.

*fweet* Spurious logic on the field!

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Besides, I figure I'm only actually going to take the damned things about 4 times a week, so it's better if I'm on the dosage that gets me to the right level taking them 4 times a week, right?

Wrong; if you were reliably taking them 4x/week, that would be one thing. But you sometimes take them 6x/week, sometimes 4x/week, sometimes 2x, once at the beginning and once at the end, when you remember you haven't taken them for 5 days...

The solution here would be to work up a way for you to remember to take your pills 7x/week, and take them 7x/week a tthe proper dosage for 7 pills/week. Am I making sense here? Especially if you react to them so strongly that it means you (currently) have 4 days wherein you are fully functioning, and 3 days where you're off-kilter...upping the dose to 175% of normal is just going to make you jittery 4 days (like an almost-double-dose, you dig?), and off-kilter 3 days...

I'm not even going to touch the other issue, since your girlfriend said it more eloquently than I. ;)

Re: *fweet* Spurious logic on the field!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You squish my fun. Look at you, squishing it right now. Does it squelch up between your toes, the fun? :-P

Squishing your fun

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

You are my squishy fun, dear.