Originally Posted by: Online Community MemberHere’s one for you insomniacs who may appear later, what’s your song to reflect your current mood?
I’ve been really struggling this week, my legs feel like heavy lead weights, I continue to get up 6-7-8-9or10+ times every night for a wee but can’t sleep anyway due to the frequent Prostap induced hot sweats.
Hello mate,
Sorry to see that you're struggling.
Usually, I rarely sleep well, and I'm awake in the early hours. However, last night was the best night's kip I've had for months.
For the past 4 months, we've sadly slept in separate rooms, it's the only way we can try to get a decent nights kip. I hardly slept a wink the night before. We looked after the grandkids all day yesterday, it was great to be with them but was very tiring. We went to bed just after 11pm. I woke at 7 am, I couldn't believe it. I even went back to sleep for another couple of hours. I didn't get up until 9:30. I feel like a new bloke today. A lack of sleep is crippling, it's why they use sleep deprivation to torture people.
As you know, I had surgery, so apart from a couple of months on Bilcal, I've not experienced the awful side effects of HT that youre having to deal with. I just managed to avoid HT injections, when they decided that I was fit for the op.
Although I'm not on HT, I have a heart issue that seems to effect me in similar ways to HT. I had a heart attack, only 2 months after my prostate op. I was beginning to think I was that unlucky that if Kim Bassinger had have had triplets, I be the one who was bottle fed. They ended up drilling out and stenting one of the main arteries but it looks like they'll have to do the same with another. Like you, I feel knackered and very old. It's so irritating. Until I was 50 years old, I was running 5 miles everyday and doing 500 press ups in 5x100 sets a day. I was as fit as a butchers dog. Now I struggle to walk 200 yards to the Co-op. Getting old is crap and I understand how depressing it can be when your get up and go has got up and gone. The thing I miss most, is kicking a football about with my grandson. Now when we go to the park I have to take one of his mates to act as a sub.
Even after a year after my prostatectomy, I get good and bad days. Life has certainly become a bl**dy roller coaster.
On a lighter note, I love your idea of what song reflects your mood. Today, luckily, mine would be Happy by Pharrell Williams, but tomorrow it'll probably be So Sad the Song by Gladys Knight.
Best of luck pal. I hope you feel brighter and fitter soon.
Edited by member 06 Apr 2024 at 13:31
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