I snore. I am loathe to admit it but I do. It is a fairly recent phenomena and it seems to be only during allergy season. Unfortunately for my husband, that lasts pretty much all winter for me.
I have lived with a snorer before. I wanted to smother him with his pillow because I was so tired all the time. (just kidding!) He refused to believe that he snored. Of course his disbelief in any kind of personal flaws should have been a clue about him in general, but I digress. My point is that I was on the other side of this bed. I was the one ready to scream every single night, who slept with music on (pre ipod even!) and who tried to fall asleep before he did in hopes that I would stay asleep. I feel pretty terrible that I am putting my husband through this. But I am sure he feels worse.
I am hoping that losing weight will help the issue, but that (losing weight) has not happened yet. I try to sleep on my side, but Vinnie says that when he looks over I am on my back or on my side and not at all on the pillow. I am thinking of trying one of those anti-snore pillows because I think as long as I can force myself to sleep on my side, and follow some other basic snore remedies I should be okay. But I have to stay on the pillow. And apparently there is a learning curve in using it. I am a little concerned about a pillow that I have to learn how to use. I will give it a shot. It got decent amazon reviews.
Maybe I just need to get enough sleep for the snoring to stop...
Do you snore? Does your partner? How do you both survive???
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Acupuncture and me
I am so excited! I had my first acupuncture session today. I have wanted to try it for some time because I really do believe in it. My new insurance is apparently very generous when it comes to out of network providers so I was just looking into it. Imagine my delight when I found that there is an acupuncturist in Maplewood on Springfield Ave! I gave her a call a few weeks ago and spoke to her at length. She has space 2 days a week inside Shakti Yoga where I took prenatal and Mommy&me yoga. (Man, I miss yoga!) Because the first visit is so long I could not get in till today.
I had to fill out an extensive health questionnaire before hand that the practitioner and I went over in detail. We discussed my asthma and allergies; digestive issues; menstrual issues; stress and my desire for weight loss. She let me know that she can definitely help me with all of the aforementioned issues except weight loss. Rather, weight loss could be a side effect of the other issues being corrected. That was what I had figured, but I was happy for the clarification. Some recommendations she made initially are to cut out dairy as much as possible for both the asthma and digestive issues; try to have gluten-free pasta instead of regular; cut out the diet soda; have a warm breakfast, like oatmeal; and to look into Dr. Weil's anti-inflamatory diet. Apparently conditions like asthma cause the body to have inflammation on a cellular level and it is helpful to eat foods to reduce it/avoid it.
Most of the needles felt either like a prick or nothing as they went in (or came out) but 2 in particular stung a lot as they went in and as they came out. During the session (about 45 minutes) I did not feel them at all. In fact I went into a state of deep relaxation and almost fell asleep. That feeling lasted most of the day. Even when Lilly was having a meltdown I was able to keep my calm. I know that this is not necessarily going to last all week, but the feeling of calm was nice. I know nice sounds kind of blah, but since my norm has recently been stressed and edgy, calm is really nice.
I am very hopeful that my allergies and asthma will improve. I know that I have frequently mentioned in this blog (here and here and here for example) that I want to lose weight and change my diet. I am hoping and praying that this is the time that I can make that commitment and stick with it. Giving up diet soda...no problem. Eating a warm breakfast...same, in fact, delicious! Giving up dairy...oh lordy. I have done it in the past and my digestive issues did get better. I just LOVE cheese and ice cream. I think that I could still have the cream in my coffee since that is minimal. At least for the beginning. I am not so keen on soy substitutes so I would just do without. She did say that if I was going to have dairy I should try to have sheep or goat's milk. I am not sure how I feel about that...but I am looking forward to my next session already!
Does anyone else use acupuncture or other complementary medicines? Tell me!
I had to fill out an extensive health questionnaire before hand that the practitioner and I went over in detail. We discussed my asthma and allergies; digestive issues; menstrual issues; stress and my desire for weight loss. She let me know that she can definitely help me with all of the aforementioned issues except weight loss. Rather, weight loss could be a side effect of the other issues being corrected. That was what I had figured, but I was happy for the clarification. Some recommendations she made initially are to cut out dairy as much as possible for both the asthma and digestive issues; try to have gluten-free pasta instead of regular; cut out the diet soda; have a warm breakfast, like oatmeal; and to look into Dr. Weil's anti-inflamatory diet. Apparently conditions like asthma cause the body to have inflammation on a cellular level and it is helpful to eat foods to reduce it/avoid it.
Most of the needles felt either like a prick or nothing as they went in (or came out) but 2 in particular stung a lot as they went in and as they came out. During the session (about 45 minutes) I did not feel them at all. In fact I went into a state of deep relaxation and almost fell asleep. That feeling lasted most of the day. Even when Lilly was having a meltdown I was able to keep my calm. I know that this is not necessarily going to last all week, but the feeling of calm was nice. I know nice sounds kind of blah, but since my norm has recently been stressed and edgy, calm is really nice.
I am very hopeful that my allergies and asthma will improve. I know that I have frequently mentioned in this blog (here and here and here for example) that I want to lose weight and change my diet. I am hoping and praying that this is the time that I can make that commitment and stick with it. Giving up diet soda...no problem. Eating a warm breakfast...same, in fact, delicious! Giving up dairy...oh lordy. I have done it in the past and my digestive issues did get better. I just LOVE cheese and ice cream. I think that I could still have the cream in my coffee since that is minimal. At least for the beginning. I am not so keen on soy substitutes so I would just do without. She did say that if I was going to have dairy I should try to have sheep or goat's milk. I am not sure how I feel about that...but I am looking forward to my next session already!
Does anyone else use acupuncture or other complementary medicines? Tell me!
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