insomnia Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/insomnia/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:30:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 31053421 Adventures with Antibiotics https://livingwithscleroderma.com/adventures-with-antibiotics/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/adventures-with-antibiotics/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:58 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10391

Now that my blood pressure seems to be, thankfully, calming down, the next frontier is healing the infection in my left ring finger. As I’ve written recently, this has been going on for a couple of months, now. Two multi-week courses of Minocyline perhaps helped, but not enough to really clear the infection. So, last […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/adventures-with-antibiotics/feed/ 0 10391 Sleepless in Massachusetts https://livingwithscleroderma.com/sleepless-in-massachusetts/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/sleepless-in-massachusetts/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2015 13:00:35 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=3175 My grandmother used to say that her mother used to say she was lucky if she slept every other night. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve inherited her genes. Of course, I know there are good sleep habits and bad ones, and lately I’ve been slipping into the bad column—going to bed too late, working on […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/hamster-wheel/feed/ 0 2199 Stream of Consciousness https://livingwithscleroderma.com/stream-of-consciousness/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/stream-of-consciousness/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:12 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=422 It’s after 1:00 a.m. and I can’t sleep. One of my ulcers, that stubborn one near the tip of my middle left finger, won’t stop smarting. I try shifting positions, rubbing my hand, warming it under the pillow. Sometimes the pain is caused by a Raynaud’s spasm and eases as soon as my blood flows […]

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