Arthroscopy is Fun

This recovery period has been an excercise in inadvertent sleep deprivation.  I’m have been getting about four to six hours of sleep a night, which reached a crescendo of failure last night, during which I slept for a total of two hours.

I’ve been taking the recommended doses of medication, including Tizanidine which is a muscle relaxer. I thumbed through the side effects of all my meds last night. Unsurprisingly, Tizanidine has a side effect of hallucination and anxiety. Which may explain why I awoke after half an hour of sleep feeling like my pillow was on fire and had incredibly restless hands and legs the entire night. I hydrated myself to help purge the meds from my system and stayed up reading until the sun peeked through the windows.

I climbed back into bed and slept for another hour and a half.

Probably need to contact the good doctor for a different med as a muscle relaxer.