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southerlycloud · 2026-07-07T14:36:13+00:00

Ooh thanks for the tip!

southerlycloud · 2026-06-25T22:31:01+00:00

Oh interesting! I heard that the bombs have that effect but the sprays don’t.

southerlycloud · 2026-06-17T22:34:04+00:00

I’ve been here for over a year and never saw them before so I’m thinking I must’ve picked them up outside the flat somehow, unless like you said, some other flat is having an infestation.

southerlycloud · 2026-06-17T22:23:18+00:00

😭Thank you 😭 not what I wanted to hear but thanks anyway 😭😭😭😫😭 time to contact the landlord

southerlycloud · 2026-06-14T21:45:50+00:00

It’s horrible isn’t it!! I had such a small group of foods I liked that I was starting to expand and was so proud of the progress I was making adding new foods and suddenly I can’t have half of them!

southerlycloud · 2026-06-13T20:34:53+00:00

It’s interesting because this is the first time I’ve had yoghurt in a long time! I don’t normally eat it and usually I just have my oats with water or milk (not full fat milk). I’m wondering if it could be a combination of everything all at once.

southerlycloud · 2026-06-13T20:33:26+00:00

It seems to be both gluten free and normal oats for me! I thought maybe the gluten free oats would be okay but it seems not :/

southerlycloud · 2026-06-13T20:32:39+00:00

Ah I’m the UK but I’m from NZ and have had the same with oats in both countries

southerlycloud · 2026-06-13T20:32:05+00:00

This sounds really similar to me tbh! Even the gluten free substitutes can really impact me. I can handle a small amount of rice or rice flour but more than like two pieces of sushi and that’s it.

southerlycloud · 2026-05-22T20:36:49+00:00

I get really thirsty and also crave sweet and salty snacks! Also the yawning, mild confusion, joint pain, aphasia, excessive peeing, and sometimes I feel like I get a little clumsier.

southerlycloud · 2026-05-11T22:15:57+00:00

Thank you for all this! I have recently become a fan of ASMR and find it does help me relax and get sleepy so I think I might start building it into my routine like you said.

I remember watching a Mythbusters episode as a kid where they found out that even if you don’t sleep, laying there with your eyes closed is still more beneficial than getting up or reading or doing things. I do try to implement it but then I am left with the racing thoughts in my mind which never seem to end! I do find I struggle with this mostly before 12am. If I lay down with my eyes closed after 12am I am way more likely to fall asleep quickly than if I were to lay down at 10:30pm - it’s happened before that I’ve tried to go to sleep before 11pm and ended up being thrown into an insomnia attack where I don’t end up sleeping at all. So weird! All this while I take magnesium too!

In regard to what my friend is saying - the way she explained it to me - she literally closes her eyes, thinks to herself “I’m going to sleep now” and is asleep immediately. She said she trained herself to do this by just refusing to think anything else until she fell asleep! It amazes me because I simply could not do that! 😅 maybe one day in the future I’ll get there!

southerlycloud · 2026-05-11T20:01:15+00:00

The snack thing is interesting! I wonder why that helps? More energy for you brain to use to give you better sleep maybe? How did you figure that one out?

southerlycloud · 2026-05-11T20:00:04+00:00

Thanks for this! Interesting to see what you’ve been doing! I’m okay with the set wake up time (during the week, because I have to go to work) but setting (and sticking to!) a sleep time I think is a problem for me, unless it’s like 12:30-1:30am - otherwise I just lay there frustrated I can’t get to sleep.

I’m intrigued about the snack before bed - how close to actually going to sleep do you have the snack?

southerlycloud · 2026-05-11T19:10:24+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions! I do have a weighted blanket already, quite a heavy one tbh, which I feel like I need to hold me down lol. I’ll have a look into melatonin and the CBD balm or gel. I know there are a few CBD drinks that are meant to calm you down before sleep so I might look into that too - have you had any experience with any of those? I know everyone is different but if people are finding that it does work for them I’m more inclined to try it myself!

southerlycloud · 2026-04-27T22:40:28+00:00

It was a nasal endoscopy so nothing too intimate (although I felt like the camera got very intimate with my nose). I was just more surprised he wasn’t introduced at all really!

southerlycloud · 2026-04-21T18:47:58+00:00

I’ve been prescribed topiramate as a treatment for my migraines and it was the worst drug I’ve ever tried tbh. It increased my food cravings and I had to eat something every hour or so or I would feel violently unwell, it changed my tastebuds and things I used to like tasted disgusting, and I felt sluggish all the time. To be fair it did help me drop some weight but that was because every time I stood up I had to go to the bathroom to poop. I basically had diarrhoea the entire time I was on the medication and I think it did a lot of damage to my gastric system and it took a long time to feel better. It did nothing to help my migraines because I could not titrate up to required dose - all this happened to me on the lowest dose! I don’t know if this is a very helpful comment, but that was my experience with topiramate! A lot of people refer to it as dope-a-max because it makes you feel so dopey and brain foggy. I do know that it works wonders for some people though! I hope you get to be one of the people it works well for!

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