No Sleep Again

Ugh, the 2 am curse strikes again. After flushing out the PD catheter, I finally fell asleep at 1:08 am but woke up at 2:29 am. That’s only about an hour and 15 minutes of sleep. It’s 4:45 am now and I’ve been lying in bed trying to sleep again for over two hours.

I did notice that the numbness in my feet is pretty intense, but not in my hands. Usually the numbness feeling in both are correlated. Also, even though there seems to be more numbness, I can feel the carpet more distinctly under my feet. I’m not sure what’s going on since it’s hard to objectively measure the neuropathy. It’s like some of the numbness is wearing off and underneath there is… a different kind of numbness. Maybe the underlying diabetic peripheral neuropathy is worse than before, and it was masked by a side effect of Amiodarone.

It also could be that I’m feeling some of the effect of acupuncture. My acupuncturist did day that she was supposed to cause micro-trauma that my body will repair, which should increase circulation to the affected area. If that’s true, I hope that the numbness will improve soon instead of only getting more intense.

Or maybe nothing is happening, and the numbness at any given time just feels worse than past memory. That would suck.