I’ve been quite up and down again over the last week or so. My sleep pattern has been pretty bad, not getting to sleep until approaching 1am most nights, and waking up between 4am and 5.30am. Unfortunately when I wake up, my bladder kicks in to ‘got to go right now’ mode, and by the time I’ve been to the loo, my brain is fully switched on, and getting back to sleep is rarely an option – and believe me I’ve tried. My nerve issues seem much more stable on the increased evening dose of gabapentin, I just wish I could get the pain to a level I could cut down the tramadol some more. Constipation has been bad ad well (another reason for wanting to be rid of the tramadol) and I’m sure this is affecting my overall feeling as I’ve actually felt quite ill generally over the last few days.
I think a brief conversation I had with my boss as he was leaving work today made me take stock of the position I’ve got myself into. He asked if I had any plans for the weekend, and my response was “just trying to recover from the week – just like most weekends”. Simply getting over the week is not a good thing to be planning for your days off! I need to arrange to take some of that excess of leave I’ve accumulated.