I always use hydrocortisone cream for bites. Seems like pretty quick relief
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I always used Caladryl Clear for bites.
Luckily not in our neighborhood!
Fell asleep before taking Benadryl, but just woke up and took it (it’s 1:15) . Hope it works for both.
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Woke at 4:11. Still awake at 6:25. Starting to feel sleepy but have to get up for an art class. Ugh.
My daughter was here for a visit and shares my bed (I live in a one bedroom, no couch). Oddly, having another person near me sleeping deeply seemed to help me. I slept a little longer, like 5:30 or 6. Maybe because I didn’t want to wake her so was forced to just lie there and fell asleep again.
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I am feeling that melatonin (and Klonopin) are giving me more brain cramps/memory blanks. Hmmm. Maybe, cognitively, lack of sleep is healthier?!
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I’m back to not falling asleep when I want. I did better for maybe a week. Melatonin gives me crazier dreams than normal, and my normal dreams are already insane. Off to read for a while.
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3:31 am and still awake. Setting up our itinerary for our trip in Sept. and trying to figure out what we still need to book, and getting resources together for our trip to H’s grandmother’s town in Ukraine. Also was recommended for nomination as our synagogue’s next president tonight. That definitely is going to trigger insomnia!
Doing yardwork is making me exhausted, but that translates into a late-afternoon nap, not an earlier bedtime. (When I run out of spoons, my body shuts down.)
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It’s 4:45. Back to bed ……
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Temple politics are so challenging!! Are you sure you want to take that on?
DH opens the bedroom blinds during the day and then forgets to close them, so I’m woken by the blinding glare, sigh. I think if he’s the one to open them he needs to remember to close them. He’s sleeping away and I’ve been awake for an hour 
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Well, I’m up (3 am) because the hotel fire alarm went off so we went took stairs from 3rd floor and waited outside for about 10 minutes until they let us in. Not sure I’ll make it back to sleep.
. This is Thursday night above. Will retry to post last night’s below . Because, When I woke up at around 1 I looked for something on The computer (waiting for biopsy results ) but it wasn’t in the portal- just the visit note. But I did get back to sleep last night.
4 am. Awake. Some article popped up on my phone relating sleep disorders to possible later onset dementia. Lovely.
Or reading about late onset dementia can cause anxiety which causes sleeplessness.
If you had forgotten about the article then you might have a potential problem😀
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Up at 4:45 after going to bed at 11:15. Ugh. Not going to read that article @jyme626!
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Looked all over for the company of this thread last night/this morning, and nowhere to be found. Of course it was 3:30 am, but checked multiple times.
The falling asleep/falling back to sleep isn’t the problem. Its the waking up in the middle of the night thats a PITA. At our age, as I’ve said before, we consider an “all nighter” when you sleep through the night and don’t have to get up to pee!
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We are here!!