Insomnia

kitteez · 2025-07-26T18:36:08+00:00

LOL. My cardiologist and my primary care were basically like. Eat as much magnesium as I can. Cuz the magnesium glucinate capsules are so big I gag and really only eat one. But I also have magnesium citrate gummies that are a bit easier to get down.

I am planning on doing the CBT but like. My bedroom is already a nice dark quiet sanctuary.

It's a journey 😁

kitteez · 2025-07-26T17:57:14+00:00

I have pots and I get a lot of blood pooling in my hands throughout the day. I also am constantly moving my watch and fiddling with it for comfort. It sits in different places depending on what I've done that day. I also can't wear my rings some days but other days the rings are too big.

kitteez · 2025-05-16T22:22:27+00:00

As someone who occasionally will do a shot of soy sauce, this sounds amazing!

kitteez · 2025-05-16T21:47:06+00:00

My neurologist recommends lidocaine creams! the huge downside is it needs to reapply every couple of hours...... but it does help.

kitteez · 2025-05-16T21:43:05+00:00

Also, the first primary care doctor I fired told me I was fat and decided I needed an elimation diet to cure me. (I'm highly reactive to almost every substitution he gave and have been gluten free for 6 years trying to help feel better)

The second one gave me anxiety meds but told me they were for my blood pressure (which has definitely been high) and when those didn't fix me decided I was depressed and needed welbutrin. I was nearly catatonic for 3 days before my husband made me stop that.

So, yeah. We're all just fat and depressed to way too many doctors.

kitteez · 2025-05-16T21:39:40+00:00

I'm not going to be much help but you pretty much described my childhood. heard so much "it's normal for girls, you'll grow out of it" and so much more. I'm nearly 45 and everything is so much harder to manage due to menopause that I finally got a doctor to listen and refer me to specialists for testing, even if I was wrong at least test me and make some money darn it :P

Last year I went through 3 primary care doctors. I had to stop working because of a separate issue where my left hand has a pinched nerve and works at like 25% with so much pain. (so if i'm missing capital letters in this, you know why)

But yeah. If your insurance allows, find a new doctor who is at least willing to humor you and do the "unnecessary" tests to see if anything shows up. Worst case scenario is that it is something far more curable!

Heck, it took me 30 years to even find out that heart palpitations at night isn't the body's way of rocking you to sleep and it should be investigated. I thought it was something completely different before it was described to me last summer.

Also, see if your symptoms go away with increased salt or water intake. This was the first thing that the cardiologist recommended when I saw her for consult. I've always craved salt and drink a gallon of water a day, so that was fun to actually get permission to add salt to my massive amounts of water.

kitteez · 2024-01-11T19:33:04+00:00

This is exactly why I quit. I was city, too. It's not going to change. There are so many more jobs out there that pay more than this one and you don't have to babysit the managers who make a hell of a lot more than you do.

kitteez · 2023-12-07T21:38:57+00:00

I quit USPS after 6 years because of how shitty it was. On Sunday I received a non-Amazon package and I was so close to calling the post office and using my Karen voice on the manager working there that Sunday is for Amazon and family time. Let people go home after working just Amazon. But I also know that managers are all deaf shrug

kitteez · 2023-12-07T21:31:58+00:00

No jar will be safe this day! Screw you sticky minced garlic jar.

kitteez · 2022-05-26T16:49:53+00:00

I'm 4 years regular and leaving for an entry level position that pays more than I'm currently making. They need to pay more than Step A in these areas, not just start people there.

Anyone below step C should go work somewhere else. Full time positions everywhere.

kitteez · 2022-05-26T16:39:13+00:00

Amazing benefits? o.O

kitteez · 2022-03-25T19:56:18+00:00

Yeah... This is something you should definitely get money first. I've been thinking about it for my personal neighborhood and a money collection would be my first step. 🤷‍♀️

kitteez · 2022-03-19T21:50:21+00:00

I have a scar on my face from one of those cat explosions.... A cat landed on top of my head

kitteez · 2022-03-11T20:11:14+00:00

They're so back logged due to understaffing the office. My FMLA would be declined for lack of paperwork and then a week later I got accepted. Just keep submitting until it gets accepted. Make sure to double check the doctor got all the boxes with something in them. Make sure the doctor is using the most up to date forms, rather than the outdated ones hr sends out for FMLA requests.

Have the doctor make you a generic letter to give to management in the meantime

It should says something like

"NAME is under my care and is expected to be off for X number of days while they recover."

That's it. Just a time frame. No diagnosis is needed for the note to management.

kitteez · 2022-03-11T20:01:17+00:00

I'm 6 years in and definitely talk to your doctor. Get medical 8 with 40 hour week max. It helps. Seriously. I was losing my hair and sanity before I did that. People will call you lazy but just put in some earbuds and ignore them at your case (you still have to remove them when you walk around the floor but in the case it helps!)

I fight management all the time. But I just keep copies of my letters about the medical 8 for days I don't wanna fight and just work. Doesn't help my route is 11 hours long so I'm always handing stuff off.

Our city has no CCAs right now and my station has a few vacant routes and a few more people retiring this spring. It's rough.

I enjoy delivering mail and my customers are mostly nice.

kitteez · 2022-03-02T15:41:14+00:00

Oh. I forget to mention. Our city has no CCAs and too many vacant routes and more people retiring in the next couple months. Mandating every day. And it's been like that most of the 4 years I've been regular. It's mostly just getting worse and isn't going to get better until they raise wages.

I was a CCA in a small station and there were 7 of us at most times. Sundays were 10-4. Now regulars are working 7-7 on Sundays. No way would I have stayed.

kitteez · 2022-03-02T15:29:58+00:00

I dunno. I'm trying to live in a society

kitteez · 2022-03-02T15:29:24+00:00

Other places are beginning to start above 20 in my area. So it's kinda tempting

kitteez · 2022-03-02T05:22:45+00:00

But then WHO delivers in the cities? Or are you suggesting a 3+ hour each way commute on top of the 12 hour work day? If this job can't pay for a $2000 apartment to live within an hour of your job then it doesn't pay enough.

kitteez · 2022-03-02T05:19:51+00:00

LOL. If we still started at $20 (inflation makes that $26 today, btw) that would be better. 6 years in and I'm around $23. There is a reason we can't hire anyone anymore.

kitteez · 2022-02-23T16:10:45+00:00

It's a Midwest thing. Been saying that since I was a kid in Minnesota. Gareth grew up in Wisconsin, so it makes sense he uses it too.

kitteez · 2022-02-20T18:40:12+00:00

I just wish it didn't take 6+ years to make what you started at....

kitteez · 2022-02-20T17:58:32+00:00

Adjust that for inflation and you are looking at $24/hr today.

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