Re: - sleeping

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Hi Deborah- I am almost 5 weeks post-op, and since surgery I have slept very well. Because I am not choking when I drift off, I am able to sleep soundly. It won't help with the worry (and I totally understand), but the surgery should improve your rest immensely. We will be waiting to hear what your doctor has to say about the pains. I know several of us have been concerned. Is the filming done on the beach? JoDeborah Lattimore <deborah_Lattimore@...> wrote: Hi, Lee Ann ! How are you post-op? I hope you aren't having too much pain or fatigue. As I've mentioned before, I am nosy about your surgery and the recuperation time because I think I am the next one on this list to have a

myotomy, and, it will be with Dr. Fuller at Cedars/ L.A. I see Dr. Fuller tomorrow and I will be discussing every thing I can think of. I suppose I'd better stay up late tonight, scribbling and scribbling on a 3 X 5" index card, perhaps several, all the stuff I need to think about and ask him about and all that jazz. I still have that left side pain and I have these odd little bouts of dizziness and fatigue. I was going to take a nap when I got back from picking up some office supplies this afternoon, but, Hallelujah!, I have managed to stay up. If I take a nap, it throws my sleep off, and, I just don't sleep very well as it is. My neurologist/psychiatrist-meds-adviser has me on Neurontin and Cymbalta for depression but I noticed that my insurance does not want to pop for a reduction on it. However, my insurance IS covering another drug I take and I have been approved for my myotomy, with one

day in the hospital. Can't complain too much. I'm just wondering how to fix my sleeping patterns. I usually sleep really, really well if I take a .5 Xanax about 20 minutes before I go to sleep. But I don't want to take it for the rest of my life, or even all the year or whatever. I didn't take anything last night, and, so, rolling around at all hours, aware of coughing and feeling foamy. Blah, blah, blah. Do any of you sleep better post-op.? Just wondering. I know that I am often awake at night because I am wondering about work...I do try to throw it off and tell myself that sleep-time is MY time, that I need a good sleep so that I can continue my neurosis the next day with renewed dedication and physical back-up. Oh, well.

Hope all of you are having good nights' sleeps! Deborah, at the beach

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