Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Woke up with Headache and Dizzy-ish

Couldn't sleep last night. Was up after midnight with Mac, and then awake in bed until 5am this morning. Had a headache all night even though I took aspirin, and it seemed to feel worse when I turned my head to either side when laying down.

This morning, took another aspirin, and the headache less intense, but it's still there. Could be from lack of sleep also though because I got up at 9:30 and I usually sleep way way way longer than that.

I feel a little dizzy but not super. And it seems like it comes in little waves. My stomach is a little upset too but that could be from aspirin and coffee and nothing else on it.

I realized yesterday that I'd still been taking a Zyrtac every day since October. Miss Mary told me to take one a day to prepare for the visit to my Mom's and I just got into the habit of putting them with my daily pills. I did some reading and found that Zyrtac can cause dizziness and that is a very common side effect. Also somnia.

So last night I made sure I didn't take one. I also didn't take all my pills until after 11 at night. So it's hard to know just what did what and why. I had a lot of sugar before bed because yesterday was Mac's birthday and we had ice-cream cake.

Here's what I ate yesterday to see if anything triggered the way I feel today:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/chibimaddy?date=2013-12-09

Totals 1,627 149 33 62 73 105
Your Daily Goal 1,600 220 18 32 53 60
Remaining -27 71 -15 -30 -20 -45

Calories Carbs Fiber Sugar Fat Protein

Today was pretty good after everything settled down this morning with the dizziness. I went to Walmart and to Lowes and Family Dollar today. I never did get sleepy or feel like I needed a  nap.

I have this feeling that my sleep cycle is like 5 or 6 hours long, and if I go back to bed after it, I never just sleep 2 or 3 hours....it's another 5 or 6. So I am thinking that just maybe I actually need to stay up later in order to get up earlier. Oooor, I need to just let myself be up super early even though it's dark out. It's 10pm not, and I'm going to try to watch a movie to keep me going until Midnight.

I'll attempt to stay up when I wake up if it's after 5am.

Didn't take the Zyrtac today either.

Still have a low grade headache going on.

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