Why Am I So Tired?

My mother takes an awful lot of medication. Painkillers, some blood vessels openers, a cholesterol pill, and sleeping medication.

Her one pill is Amitriptyline, a medication that looks way, way similar to my regular ibuprofen pills and which we're forever mixing up. The only major difference is size-Mom's pill is a little bit bigger.

Yesterday afternoon I wanted painkillers for my cramps. I saw two orange pills sitting on the table. I don't have a very good memory and I assumed they were ibuprofen. Down the hatch they went.

An hour later, I was sitting at the computer and my head started to droop. Just as I'm drifting off, Mom asked me to make the rice for supper-did that. Laid down on the couch to rest for a bit and Mom booted me out of there because she wanted the couch. I stumbled up from it, feeling like I wasn't quite in control of my limbs.

This is the point when it dawned on me that I hadn't taken the ibuprofen I thought I'd taken, but the Amitriptyline that Mom had left sitting there.

Then I went to bed...only to be bounced out of there because Mom wanted me to call the hospital and make sure I would survive the night on that much medication.

Finally I went to bed at 5:30 in the afternoon and didn't wake up till 11 hours later. Even now I'm groggy, dizzy, and woozy. Mom said she woke me up at 8 last night-don't remember that at all.

Kind of feel like I'm underwater right now. I want to take a bath but I want someone here if I do that-the warmth is likely to make me want to go to sleep again and that could be a tad dangerous. I'm not fully in control of my brain yet (it feels like it's full of rice pudding or some other gushy substance) so I think I'll wait a couple of hours and see how I'm feeling then.

On the upside, when this stuff wears off I'm going to feel really energetic from all that sleep.

Gotta go drink some water. I'm trying to flush this stuff out of my bloodstream so I can think...

Ta,
Bec