Sleep Dysfunction

How true this is~ esp for me~ my mind seems to work so wonderfully well when im up all night long! so how come when i am switched around and up on daylight hours ~ why does my mind not whiz and whirl along during the day, as it does during my insomnia nights??

hmmm~

this might be half of my problem as to why I love ~ just LOVE ~ being up all night long!!!

VERY nice little post, Cherie -- What a neat quote, and I've never seen it before!

I was just thinking last night when I was just too tired to think that I sure kinda miss the way I used to be where I could stay up late ... sometimes all night working.  It makes me think, which comes first, the chicken or the egg?  

There are some who have seen a connection between the way the brain percolates with people with fibromyalgia and bipolar II, and I don't have any proof of that anywhere, it's just something I heard kind of through the grape vine but from a reliable source in medical research.  Whether it's true or not, it's made me think differently about how people might come to have fibromyalgia.  For instance, I never slept well as a kid even, so maybe my predisposition for my mind having all these creative ideas kept me awake!  It also made me be lying there in my parents bedroom after I'd gone in and hung with my mom before she got out of bed and was looking at the dust on the lower level of the bureau and thinking how I wanted to dust that for her.  Maybe THAT is what started getting me in trouble!  I'd exhaust myself shoveling snow to do it the way my dad expected and taught me, throwing it as far as possible so that the next storm you weren't having to shovel over a pile.  (We literally ran out of places to put the snow in those very hard Colorado Mountain winters that started mid 50s and went to mid 80s).  I then was expected to help cook dinner, which the way my mother did it was very slow and monotonous and took until 9 or 10 pm sometimes to be done cleaning up.  I'd have homework to do after and then in high school I got up at 5 and 6 am and I remember hating my cat because she'd stay in the warm bed and I'd have to go out and feed horses and get in a cold car or cold bus stop. 

If adrenal fatigue and the hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal axis is what gets off and causes the cascade of events with fibromyalgia, which pretty much is an established fact, then what caused each of us to get that system going haywire?  Well, for me, I'm really liking the information I get from the books advertised here in the Forum areas by the smart lady authors.  Deirdre Rawlings and her Food / Fibro book (and website, facebook , etc.) AND Angela Dunston Barakat's book about Autism to Zzzzz due to gluten, casein, colorings and etc is really VERY good and streamlilned.  Both are WONDERFUL resources.  

As for me, I'm LOVING sleeping when I do -- and for the first time in my whole adult life it is without Rx or OTC sleep aids or exhausting myself with hours of working out each day.  But I have to admit, I've had that thought about how I'm used to being able to get a WHOLE lot more done each day than I do now, since I'm in bed 33% of the time.  

You're backwards on your circadian rhythm.  NOT that I'm saying you're bipolar BUT that is one of the hallmarks of bipolar II.  WHAT IF people with FMS and BPII end up with some similar symptoms in their minds because there is something genetic they have in common and it has to do with food allergies?  Simply eating the paleolithic diet might turn it all around, and wouldn't THAT be cool?  Simple!  Then we could all sit around the campfire at night and tell stories before retiring for a good sleep together.  

In the mean time, I hope many commune at Lumigrate.com to share ideas and learn together. 

Just like you've kicked off a GRATE topic, Cherie.  So good to see you and those penguins!  ~~ Mardy