I don't sleep any more.
Mar. 1st, 2026 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianI've been sleeping for perhaps half an hour each morning. I don't sleep at night, so there's no point in going to bed. I'll go to bed if I feel tired, but I don't expect that to happen.
For years now I've believed that my poor sleep was the cause of my ibs. That's because my ibs symptomps improved or worsened according to how much sleep I got. But I'm sleeping less than ever before, yet my ibs symptoms have improved: My constipation isn't as bad, certain foods no longer give me stomach cramps after several days of unusually little sleep, and the stomach cramps I have after bowel movements end quickly, whereas they used to endure for hours.
I have no idea what's happening. Menopause is like turning into superwoman.
And I'm off coffee. I use only black tea to deal with my fatigue/sleepiness. I no longer need coffee to have a bowel movement.
So it's two and a quarter hours after my regular bedtime, I've begun to feel drowsy, so I've taken my extended release melatonin and will go to bed a couple of hours from now. I don't expect to sleep, but I'll try.
Today I just spent a ton of time finding Korean sentences to put on flashcards. I haven't even started studying Mandarin yet even though it's the language I'm supposed to be focusing on.
I'm going to progress in Korean faster than I've progressed in Mandarin. I should be able to start listening to simple podcasts in less than a year. Maybe in a year I will finally go back to Czech, my favorite language. I hate getting back up to speed with things I've been away from for long periods of time. I'm not sure I want to bother with Czech anymore. But I probably will do it anyhow. I hate giving up, and I know that I'll progress more quickly than I was progressing once I get past the refamiliarization stage.
I got an email about my glycolic acid having arrived on Friday, but it's not in the mail. I hope my thirty bucks wasn't wasted. I didn't pay for tracking or insurance or anything. Maybe my mailbox was too full. The mailperson suddenly started delivering advertisement papers recently, and I've sort of refused to take them.
I need to remember to stop trying to compose posts when I'm sleepy. But I guess I'd rather spend my non-sleepy hours studying and other productive things. This blog exercises my writing skills and serves as reminders and medical history...well, I was going to say that keeping this blog isn't very productive besides all that, but all those things make it sound like it is rather productive.
For years now I've believed that my poor sleep was the cause of my ibs. That's because my ibs symptomps improved or worsened according to how much sleep I got. But I'm sleeping less than ever before, yet my ibs symptoms have improved: My constipation isn't as bad, certain foods no longer give me stomach cramps after several days of unusually little sleep, and the stomach cramps I have after bowel movements end quickly, whereas they used to endure for hours.
I have no idea what's happening. Menopause is like turning into superwoman.
And I'm off coffee. I use only black tea to deal with my fatigue/sleepiness. I no longer need coffee to have a bowel movement.
So it's two and a quarter hours after my regular bedtime, I've begun to feel drowsy, so I've taken my extended release melatonin and will go to bed a couple of hours from now. I don't expect to sleep, but I'll try.
Today I just spent a ton of time finding Korean sentences to put on flashcards. I haven't even started studying Mandarin yet even though it's the language I'm supposed to be focusing on.
I'm going to progress in Korean faster than I've progressed in Mandarin. I should be able to start listening to simple podcasts in less than a year. Maybe in a year I will finally go back to Czech, my favorite language. I hate getting back up to speed with things I've been away from for long periods of time. I'm not sure I want to bother with Czech anymore. But I probably will do it anyhow. I hate giving up, and I know that I'll progress more quickly than I was progressing once I get past the refamiliarization stage.
I got an email about my glycolic acid having arrived on Friday, but it's not in the mail. I hope my thirty bucks wasn't wasted. I didn't pay for tracking or insurance or anything. Maybe my mailbox was too full. The mailperson suddenly started delivering advertisement papers recently, and I've sort of refused to take them.
I need to remember to stop trying to compose posts when I'm sleepy. But I guess I'd rather spend my non-sleepy hours studying and other productive things. This blog exercises my writing skills and serves as reminders and medical history...well, I was going to say that keeping this blog isn't very productive besides all that, but all those things make it sound like it is rather productive.
