Here we can all be heard for a little while

Gingernutty

Hypnogogic hallucinations.

I've made arrangements to go to London for Saturday and Sunday to see family to find they aren't there.

The brother from Oz can just fit me in between 11am-1pm on Saturday, cousin is off visiting in-laws and married brother with kids is off on his hols.

So I'm in an expensive London hotel in the middle of the tourist season for a two hour catch up before Oz bro pops off to visit his in-laws with his wife.

Great.

Hands and arms are fine. No idea what caused the reaction.

I've had no prolonged contact with silver, copper, nickel, tin, iron or chrome, no ginger, no NSAIDs, no SSRIs, no SNRIs, no botulinum toxin (!), no tuberculin (!!!) and no eggs, shellfish or fish.

Nope. Dunno. It's not happened since even though I worked another shift in the same place since.

I'm off to pack.

Flybaby

Pyx - lmao - and I needed that after today. xx ~{*pyxsquish*}~ Surely it should be a pyxie hole?!

Wellyboots6

I HATE Restless Leg Syndrome!!!!

Argghhhhhh!

Waves_and_Smiles

Good morning all! I slept for 14 hours and I feel a lot better! My psychiatrists have always told me that sleep is very important for my psychosis, my chemicals right themselves when I sleep and if I don't have enough I will experience far more symptoms. I have a sleep disorder as a result of the psychosis which means I have an awful lot of REM sleep (dreaming state) but very little deep sleep, which is why I sleepwalk and have nightmares so often, so I tend to need at least 10 hours every night to achieve the equivalent of deep sleep that others have. To make matters worse when I am in relapse I am lucky if I manage 90 minutes a night which makes things go downhill even faster. Lately I have been waking up after 6 hours which may explain my paranoid mood. I feel so much clearer in my mind today.

RJ, don't worry about hearing things. Most people hear voices and sounds at different points in their lives. It could be a hypnogogic state or it could even be related to depression. I am at the extreme end of that and have depression psychosis which means when I am very low I hear voices and see things. All it is, is a chemical imbalance which rights itself as soon as the depression is dealt with. Yours could just bit a little blip though, most people experience it at one time or another. Do keep in mind that ear infections and related conditions can also cause it especially with vibrating, too. There are lots of reasons why it can happen, often it is just one of those things and nothing to worry about.

Vibrating made me smile. Because I have a balance disorder I not only hear a vibrating noise but I also feel it! Sometimes I could swear that the sofa, floor or bed is rocking back and forth with a low hum but it is all connected to my sense of balance being broken. It can make me fall over if I am standing at the time so no matter where I am if it starts I have to sit down, even if that is in the street. Nothing can be done because it is a form of brain damage that I was born with, I just take a tablet for vertigo which helps a bit and I have anti-nausea tablets for when it is very bad and makes me feel sick. For those that have ever been really drunk, remember when the room starts spinning? It's similar to that feeling but without the alcohol. At times it can be sort of fun if I am in bed at the time, a bit like being on a fairground ride that rocks back and forth, not so much fun if it then starts to move in circles.

Aw, I hope you have a good weekend anyway, Ginger. You could always pretend you are a tourist and take lots of photo's of interesting things? I used to do that sometimes when I was bored and I actually lived in London.

I filled in your friend's form, JM!

Hope you got some sleep eventually katy, restless legs are indeed a pain.

Pyxis

Gingernutty, thanks for the info on Hypnogocic Hallucinations! Very interesting!

RJ, I've extracted the part about sounds from the article:-

"Sounds
Hypnagogic hallucinations are often auditory or have an auditory component. Like the visuals, hypnagogic sounds vary in intensity from faint impressions to loud noises, such as crashes and bangs (exploding head syndrome). People may imagine their own name called, crumpling bags, white noise, or a doorbell ringing. Snatches of imagined speech are common. While typically nonsensical and fragmented, these speech events can occasionally strike the individual as apt comments on — or summations of — their thoughts at the time. They often contain word play, neologisms and made-up names. Hypnagogic speech may manifest as the subject's own "inner voice", or as the voices of others: familiar people or strangers. More rarely, poetry or music is heard.[27]"

seven-day-weekend

katy721 wrote: »

I HATE Restless Leg Syndrome!!!!

Argghhhhhh!

OOh. And me. People who don't have it have NO IDEA what it is like!

I commiserate.

Pyxis

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

OOh. And me. People who don't have it have NO IDEA what it is like!

I commiserate.

I've experienced a milder version of it, and still do, some nights, and even a mild version of it is ghastly, so I can really commiserate with you if you get the full-blown version. Aaaaargh!
Luckily, it doesn't stop me sleeping. Other things do, though!

Do you find that alcohol makes it worse? That's one thing I've noticed.

Waves_and_Smiles

I get restless leg syndrome when I am in withdrawal from my medication. There is nothing I can do apart from get up and walk around.

On that note my prescription is due today. It is exactly 28 days, I put it in 2 days early, I checked yesterday that it would be ready today. Nothing can go wrong, right? If it goes to plan it will be the first time it has done so in months...

Wellyboots6

Yuck
Anxiety is through the roof, just want to hide away and sleep through the day but can't because of my damn legs!!
Hardly slept during the night and have been worrying myself silly.
Got midwife today and really think I need to ask for help but not sure if I will as hubby will be there and he doesn't know how bad it is getting.

Grr grr grr!
And breathe...

Pyxis

Katy, please, please ask for help! :A
Why don't you want hubby to know it's bad? Might it be better if he knows, so that he can help?
Please don't try and struggle on alone. The midwives are there just for this sort of thing.........so please tell her how you're feeling. Write it down, if necessary, and ask her to read it.
Please? ((((((((Katy))))))))