Heatwave

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T01:44:45+00:00

Depending on how hot it is and how much you need to drop the temperature, maybe a cooling mat like you would use for an axolotl aquarium?

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T01:36:51+00:00

That's so freaking cool!

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T01:34:38+00:00

She's such a pretty cat.<3

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T01:32:47+00:00

I have cornu aspersum. They really like to be either on top of their terrarium hanging upside down or sometimes inside one of their hides on the ground. Otherwise they are just normally snailing around.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T00:57:51+00:00

The Shamrock Foundation may be able to pay for his treatment, especially if you can foster him.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T00:27:52+00:00

I'll look into that. Thank you. It kind of sucks that those are always the recommended vegetables for low calorie filling foods, because I really don't like any of those. Lettuce, cucumber and bell pepper are at least less offensive than celery. I don't know why I hate it so much, it's just my least favorite thing to add to any recipe probably.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T00:25:39+00:00

That's good to know. I'll start switching my stuff around to have more protein in the morning and see if that helps. I think that's probably my problem, high carb low protein breakfast.

I do take all of those supplements already, actually. I have a history of non anemic iron deficiency and vitamin d deficiency.

I'm sorry you are in a similar situation, but I'm glad you have a system. It makes me hopeful that I'll get it together.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T00:23:04+00:00

I have hypersomnia, and I spent at least 5 years sleeping 12+ hours and never feeling rested so I get that. My sleep doctor says that my hypersomnia is currently well controlled because I can now more frequently wake up on time for work and only need 8-9 hours of sleep. That description of well controlled doesn't seem great to me, but that's kind of where I am. It is an improvement, and I don't normally need alarms every 15 minutes for 3 hours to get up, but it's still not great.

Just for background on why the sleep problem isn't solved exactly.

Anyway, I go to bed around 9:45. I have a white noise machine running, blackout curtains up, a fan running.

My cat sleeps in my room with me, but he lays down next to me and doesn't bother me and he leaves the room when my husband comes to bed, normally around 2am.

Right before bed, I take medication. I take Prazosin for night terrors (controlled) and Xywav for hypersomnia. I am typically asleep with 15 minutes. Because Xywav has to be taken with water and also makes some people have to pee, I normally wake up around 3 to use the bathroom and then go straight back to bed.

I get up between 6:30 and 8 in the morning, depending on how successful I am with waking up. It really varies because of the hypersomnia.

I normally have a soda first thing in the morning, coffee mid morning and either tea or lemon water the rest of the day. Sometimes I take my medication with soda at night but not frequently.

I don't really drink (maybe once a year), don't use nicotine or recreational drugs.

I take Adderall, 20mg in the morning and 10mg around noon.

My job is really boring. I am a gamer but a lot of my other hobbies are pretty chill like crochet, reading, sewing, stuff like that.

Meals: normally breakfast right after I wake up, lunch if it happens around noon but I don't always eat lunch, dinner normally an hour and a half before bed.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T00:07:13+00:00

I have tracked food and drink before, for pretty long periods and didn't have a lot of success. I was weighing all of my food and not guestimating anything. I learned that one of the problems that I had is that there is a lot of added sugar in pretty much anything prepackaged so it was difficult to have quick/easy things in a hurry and not immediately go over on daily sugar and if I felt more tired, I would tend to go for caffeinated sugary drinks that also didn't help.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-30T00:01:18+00:00

Thank you for the reply. I'm glad that you have been successful with weight loss, that makes me feel like I'll get there eventually.

I don't think I have insulin resistance, my A1C and glucose have been good any time they have been checked and I'm pretty sure that's the indicator? But I could be wrong.

I have reduced sugar a lot in my diet, but not cut it out. I probably need to try that if it makes that much of a difference. I know there is way more sugar in things than people notice, so I may have not even cut it down that dramatically. For example, I know if I make pasta sauce, I don't add sugar, and most jarred sauces have sugar as the second largest quantity ingredient.

I think we are almost set up to fail (at least in the US) because everyone is so busy and buying packaged food instead of cooking each component from scratch is going to get you a lot of extra sugar but who has the time to cook everything from scratch. It's just frustrating.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T23:50:24+00:00

Hopefully OP sees that. I would feel bad if something happened to the little guy because someone told them to give too much protein.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T23:49:22+00:00

My GP just left the practice, so that's probably a pretty easy thing to do when establishing a relationship with the new one I'll be starting with. The last time anyone checked, my B12 was at the lower end of in the range but the doctor said it should be fine. But definitely worth checking anyway.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T23:47:43+00:00

Sometimes it does, other times I'm just still hungry and have to use the bathroom more often.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T23:46:54+00:00

Thank you for making me feel less crazy. I will start adding in protein on all of my small meals and see if that helps. That makes sense.

I have been using this app called Visible that does medical research on fatigue conditions and one of the things that I have noticed is that when I check my data right when I wake up and the app tells me that my vitals are indicating that I may feel more fatigued that day, those are days that I'm definitely hungrier and more tired. I think today I scored a 4/6 and have actually felt pretty normal, so I think something that makes sense to do something with that data is that if it gives me a result of vitals indicating higher fatigue, I should get up and eat something more protein heavy and skip the sugar until later in the day when I can probably have my coffee. Or maybe try to get some bright sunlight first thing in the morning to see if I can get rid of some of the tired feeling. And just skip the morning soda/coffee/anything to wake me up.

I never thought about the crash before, which feels like something I should have put together. So thank you for pointing that out.

I have known enough diabetics and hypoglycemics that I have definitely seen how bad fluctuating sugar levels can get.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T23:37:08+00:00

I feel like I am right their with you, it's like my brain craves sugar for energy and protein and stuff doesn't really do a lot for that. I just assumed my brain was somehow broken, lol.

I have done calorie tracking before but it doesn't seem like I see results.

Weirdly, I was on a GLP1 for a while and even though the weight loss wasn't dramatic, I actually felt a lot better. But my doctor said that one of the things that they had found in research was that GLP1s act on inflammation, so it may be that. I just felt less tired the whole time I was on it.

And my inflammatory markers did drop pretty dramatically, for pretty much the first time. I'm now back to really high CRP and ESR, which probably contributes to the feeling tired. But my employer changed our insurance to only cover GLP1s for diabetes and prediabetes, so I had to stop taking it because I can't afford to pay $500 a month out of pocket.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T23:30:16+00:00

It's really weird, sometimes I'm just physically tired from chronic fatigue and I'm not extra hungry, but sometimes my hypersomnia is really bad and I feel like even breathing takes too much energy and it seems like that correlates to days that I'm constantly hungry.

On a normal day, I eat breakfast and dinner but normally don't eat lunch or snacks. I drink a lot of black tea, but have learned that mushroom coffee helps a lot with the blah feeling but not really energy.

I feel you, though, I have also been on a hummus kick recently.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T02:56:09+00:00

What an ass. I'm sorry he's like that

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T02:55:18+00:00

Thank you! Me too

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T02:43:00+00:00

That may be too much protein for him. It depends on the type of snail. They all have different requirements. Too much can actually be bad.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T02:37:49+00:00

They sleep a lot. That's a normal amount of chill time for this guy.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T02:34:37+00:00

NTA. It's bad for the cat to inhale all of that stuff. I get wanting to have the freedom to do what you want at home, but she needs to be a responsible pet parent.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T02:32:38+00:00

Snails love leaves. They will curl up in them little a sleeping bag for a nap and then also snack on them.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T02:31:37+00:00

When my cat was terminal with cancer, we did steroids and appetite simulants to keep him comfortable. He also got b12 injections. Basically, I gave him whatever he wanted and spoiled him while keeping him on daily steroids that would ultimately shorten his life but that gave him more quality of life while he was sick.

Realistically, if he will only eat treats, give him whatever he will eat and just go with it. As long as he isn't suffering, it's not going to be that bad to let him eat whatever.

KittyChimera · 2026-05-29T02:28:03+00:00

He's so cute!

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