The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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No bunnies in the yard, but I have a big, fat possum!

I get bunnies, armadillos, raccoons, snakes, blue herons, egrets, sand cranes, hawks, black ibis, etc. I live on a preserve. I call the screened porch Big Screen Cat TV! LOL They sit out there from 5:30 A.M. until 11 P.M. when I kick them out and watch everything.

You must live in Florida. I would bet you have skunks too!

I'm in FL. I haven't seen skunks, but the guy across the street had a 10 foot gator in his yard. I probably have one, I just haven't seen it. We have water so we have gators.

I have been taking Benadryl to sleep since 1994 and dont think I have built up a "tolerance".I have tried to take 50mg,but it has the opposite effect and seems to keep me awake instead of making me more tired. Is there any danger in taking it for this long?I dont know if it really helps me fall asleep but helps me sleep for longer,once I am asleep.It didnt seem to help at all when I was having all the alergy problems(which seems to have disapated in the past few days).

I live up north(MN)still no green grass but the buds on a few trees have begun forming.Love spring,hate summer.

Glad you guys finally got the joke ! !
I feel like I pitches 'em straight at ya, but somehow you miss it ??

As for antihistamine, I take a sip of a liquid one almost every night to sleep. That and a melatonin pill. Even then I wake up with a 3D stereophonic movie playing in my head ! ! Ugh ! ! Wish I could just nod out without any chemicals. My tinnitus did something interesting today. It was almost lunchtime, and I was sitting in a meeting thinking about how I was going to fall asleep if I didn't get something to eat VERY SOON ! ! Just then the ringing in my left ear went up in volume like a gnat had just flown in for a landing. I did my best to keep looking normal. (always a challenge) Very distracting, and very weird. Stayed that way for about a full minute, then went back down in volume to where it usually is. I've been having blood sugar problems as of late, and I haven't put my finger on the cause yet ...

Sorry about my one note obsessions....but have you had your thyroid checked ?

I have had that same increase in ringing at times and do believe it is related to low blood suger(I dont have diabetes but most of my bio family does and I do have low thyroid and often forget to take my meds for it).I usually feel like I am going to pass out (blurry vission)accompanying the increase in ringing and have had low blood suger(I worked with diabetics and checked my blood suger when I have felt like this and found it below 50 several times.

I've been doing the same for almost as long. I haven't had any adverse problems by doing it. I think chronic exhaustion from sleeplessness would be a lot worse. At one point, a doctor game me Xanax for insomnia, but I did build up a tolerance and that stuff is addtictive. My thyroid is has been testing in the high normal range for years. Almost hyperactive, but not quite.

Right, so you see, it's a bit complicated, but here's the plan. We're off out of here, but the NT lizards (like that idiot behind me) won't survive when we've gone, which is a pity, but it can't be helped.
Anyway, we've seeded these "mahmules" with the same sort of brain structure that worked for us. Sooner or later they'll figure out that we cleared off because we got irritated by the pollution - far too much oxygen for our tastes.
Now we've cleared away all the other traces of our civilisation (no need to make them feel inferior - let them think they're the bee's knees of evolution), here's the joke. I'm going to hide this over there and, seeing as we're on a constructive plate margin, it'll finish up at the top of some mountain range.
Along come the future "mahmule" archaeologists, and find this. What will they make of it? It'll keep them going for centuries.
I might even pop back for a laugh when they find it - jump out and say "boo!", or some such. I might wear one of those clever "grey" suits. That'll confuse them even more.

God, I wish I lived in Florida. I'd go diving every day. Wrecks, reefs and caves. I'm jealous.

I remember seeing a lot of skunks in a Florida state park near Sarasota. I've never seen so many skunks. We had to abandon our picnic because we were stormed by a herd of skunks.

Gators are cool.

Yeah I most deffently did, Some times I can eat 3 large candy bars drink two big mugs of coffee and fall asleep in aheart beat, that's not normal, not when I just got done sleeping only a few hours before. I'm going through one of those stages now, sleep isn't giving me any real rest for some reason. I thought a sugar problem. There is none and they pull blood out of me like vampires, watching my Hep C, so nothing other then an elevated white blood cell count. And they feed us we can't feel blood pressure, I'm not so sure we can't. I too have wondered if we're not "hearing" it.

Although i did have a very nice nap during the little expirament. Actually going to play around with Benadyal vs Valium, no trouble going to sleep with the former.

postpaleo....

How about sleep apnea or Narcalepsy?I have the former(untreated,cant imagine wearing those masks,I toss and turn like a chicken on the spit for at least an hour before I sleep,even with Benedryl

My boyfriend has MS,Narcolipsy (and I think AS, but not sure,might me his MS,but mny traits were there in childhood???? )

Anyway,you might want to do a sleep study,They arent to bad,just a few wires and one night.

I am often tired but more likely due to my working over nights....very abnormal sleep schedule.What I do worry about is how tired I get after eating a meal.A snack is OK,but if I eat a real meal,I feel like I am going into a coma right after I am done.Often sleep a few hours then am wide awake again.I get these very intense "waves" washing over my whole bod and can not keep my eyes open.....it sucks and has gotten worse over the years(meals including smallamount of carbs,mostly protein and veggies)....

Suger....I have a cough drop in my mouth at all times,some times several.It started as a sore throat and I got hooked.I cant not stop and need to(extra 800 calories of pure suger a day,lots of money at the dentist)I can not break this habit!! !

Glaciated Allehgany Plateu and no I'm not going to look up the right spelling. Wonderful Glacieral features here. Just south of Elmira NY way upper right hand corner of Tioga County, little town called Millerton, Pa. family name been here since they settled it. We laugh becuase in some way or another all the older familys are related to one an other in some way back through the ages. Yeah I know, that's a wonderful straight line Not much of a history to this town, all pretty much local in origin, maybe a little claim to fame would be Mark Twain used to come to town every now and again, he had friends here. Might have even been to this house as it has had a varied history to it. For the most part it's peaceful, deer out number the people and I like it that way. We have no cops. We have nosy neighbors instead, it's the small town way of keeping the peace. Glance out my big sliding glass doors in my cave and not a house in sight, just a big field that blends into a hill. Animals up the yingyang, most I leave alone, but rattle snakes don't stand a chance, but we're only on the cusp of their local habitat, so that doesn't happen but every 50 years or so. Unless this global warming thing has moved them. Last record for them in town is actually older then 50 years, but one struck the wife in the spring, she missed bacuse was still loogy with the chill, i didn't get to that one in time, but whacked a baby not too long after. It's not legal to do, but those that pass the laws don't have them in the backyard, screw em. Besides if I have to kill one big enough, i wouldn't waste it, they taste good. The southern range of the white pine isn't far from here. The biggest white tail deer so far in Penna, was shot about 2 miles from here. I know I know some don't think the bambis should be shot, but they have to be culled for their own well being. I gave up hunting after I got out of the Army. The nesting eagles let their young ones come up the creek in the back every so often and play in the back yard. bear wonder through every now and again. saw my first cinnamin bear not long ago a few miles from here. opposims that take up a home in the garage have to be forced to leave. Racoons and other night time critters that come around all friendly like in the day time, have to be shot. the owls at night call to each other and I can hear them while at my puter in the summer. I have a Yurt in the backyard and an old native American encampment site in the backyard as well. The county is very red neck, but they're afraid of me, so no worries. I guess I like it here, well in my travels, i always seemed to find my way back here. The hills and trees are peaceful to me.

Elmira has a real history to it, Norths version of Andersonville, during the Civil War, only I think this one was on purpose. It's still a "prison town", I think it would be interesting to compare it to other towns with a long history with prisons being part of it's over all mentality and income. I did volunteer work in Elmira cataloging their prehistoric collection and got to roam the back rooms, neat stuff, shame that's the case in almost all museums, so much stuff is never shown. First time I ever had money to do a display, it was on the Lamoka site, it came out rather well I think. I had to stop doing the cataloging, but generated enough interest in it that Elmira College started sending kids in to keep it going. Doesn't matter, it was an obsession and I get the reward just from getting to do my obsessions.

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No idea. I do know I go through sleep time swings, a lot. I guess a good thing about being formaly DXed with Bipolar is I can get full coverage and don't have to worry about a scheduale anymore. So I just let it do it's thing, try to keep up with it. it may be best to not go after a formal Dx of AS. Right now just concerned with getting the swings under better control and I think we've finally got it. It's been a long 11 years getting to this one. The side effect you guys unfortunatly get to see, my brain race is under better control and I can write for the first time. The rest of the things, well, i don't know yet what has to be addressed and what I'll just leave alone. i mean I've gotten this far and I'll be damned if I'm going to be laying on my death bed worrying about fixing my rotation of letters, poor spelling and not reading the way most do, but knowing me, I probably will

Which forum is a good place to post a link to a psychology place? It's interesting.

What is it on? Maybe if we look at it we could tell you?

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