NoDaddyNo
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I am a deep sleeper - I have been known to sleep through fire alarms when I was in college - not the little "runs on a 9 volt battery and you put it on your ceiling kind" but an industrial one that is designed to clear out an entire floor and it was 8 feet away from my head while I slept.
If I am sitting still and not doing anything, then I nearly always will just fall asleep.
I sleep for a long time as well - if I don't set an alarm, I will sleep at least 10 hours and much more likely 12 to 14 hours.
I enjoy sleep and I look foward to it.
Now enter into the equation, my fiancee. In the past, she would grind her teeth so loudly that I would leave our bedroom, shut the door, go downstairs and sleep on the couch with a pillow over my head and I could still hear her grinding her teeth.
How the fuck she sleeps through that is beyond me, not to mention how her teeth survive it.
That was one of the many points of contention during a tough time for us and we ended up splitting up.
We got back together and we joked about her teeth grinding, but thankfully it seemed to have gone away.
Well, the other night I was lying there and she started fucking grinding her teeth again.
If I put my arm over her while she sleeps, it usually disturbs her sleep pattern enough that she stops grinding her teeth, but once I take it away - she starts grinding again.
I can't fall asleep in the weird position of face down and my arm sprawled out over her, and the arm over her trick doesn't work if I'm on my side or back - I have tried.
I was hoping it would just be a freak occurrance and then not happen again.
I was sitting here this evening and I thought I heard someone doing what sounded like construction work outside. It is 1am here, so I looked outside wondering what the hell it was.
Then I realized it was coming from our bedroom, which has an air conditioner running, and the door shut. There is also the sound of the fridge out here.
Over all of that, I was hearing her grind her teeth and I thought it was some sort of power tool.
She has been grinding them for close to an hour now.
It hit me that when we were together before, she was on Prozac, then she went off of it during the time we were apart, and then more recently (a few days ago) she went back on it again.
So I looked up the side effects of Prozac - and sure enough, a rare side effect of all SSRIs is that they cause bruxism - grinding of the teeth, especially in the sleep.
I can't even beging to describe how pissed I am about this.
It essentially means that I won't get to sleep for the entire time that she is on this drug.
I basically just had a newborn child, except there is no baby, just the joys of not sleeping.
She doesn't get how awful it sounds, nor how incredibly loud it is, so she thinks I'm overly sensitive for being pissy about it.
I don't know if recording it will fully catch the true disgustingness of the sound.
If she has it on this SSRI, then switching to another one isn't going to help, and other drugs outside of the SSRI range aren't what she needs.
I would say that she needs to not be on the drug - we tried that since neither of us like the drugs - but she is a total and complete insane and crazy constantly crying mess if she isn't on the SSRIs.
fuck me this sucks.
I am an incredibly tolerant person. I can endure all kinds of shit and manage to find a way of finding a positive spin on it - but if I miss sleep, I will quickly turn into a horrible person. I need my sleep, and it is the number one thing I hate to lose in my life.
I can only hope that I will go deaf soon.
If I am sitting still and not doing anything, then I nearly always will just fall asleep.
I sleep for a long time as well - if I don't set an alarm, I will sleep at least 10 hours and much more likely 12 to 14 hours.
I enjoy sleep and I look foward to it.
Now enter into the equation, my fiancee. In the past, she would grind her teeth so loudly that I would leave our bedroom, shut the door, go downstairs and sleep on the couch with a pillow over my head and I could still hear her grinding her teeth.
How the fuck she sleeps through that is beyond me, not to mention how her teeth survive it.
That was one of the many points of contention during a tough time for us and we ended up splitting up.
We got back together and we joked about her teeth grinding, but thankfully it seemed to have gone away.
Well, the other night I was lying there and she started fucking grinding her teeth again.
If I put my arm over her while she sleeps, it usually disturbs her sleep pattern enough that she stops grinding her teeth, but once I take it away - she starts grinding again.
I can't fall asleep in the weird position of face down and my arm sprawled out over her, and the arm over her trick doesn't work if I'm on my side or back - I have tried.
I was hoping it would just be a freak occurrance and then not happen again.
I was sitting here this evening and I thought I heard someone doing what sounded like construction work outside. It is 1am here, so I looked outside wondering what the hell it was.
Then I realized it was coming from our bedroom, which has an air conditioner running, and the door shut. There is also the sound of the fridge out here.
Over all of that, I was hearing her grind her teeth and I thought it was some sort of power tool.
She has been grinding them for close to an hour now.
It hit me that when we were together before, she was on Prozac, then she went off of it during the time we were apart, and then more recently (a few days ago) she went back on it again.
So I looked up the side effects of Prozac - and sure enough, a rare side effect of all SSRIs is that they cause bruxism - grinding of the teeth, especially in the sleep.
I can't even beging to describe how pissed I am about this.
It essentially means that I won't get to sleep for the entire time that she is on this drug.
I basically just had a newborn child, except there is no baby, just the joys of not sleeping.
She doesn't get how awful it sounds, nor how incredibly loud it is, so she thinks I'm overly sensitive for being pissy about it.
I don't know if recording it will fully catch the true disgustingness of the sound.
If she has it on this SSRI, then switching to another one isn't going to help, and other drugs outside of the SSRI range aren't what she needs.
I would say that she needs to not be on the drug - we tried that since neither of us like the drugs - but she is a total and complete insane and crazy constantly crying mess if she isn't on the SSRIs.
fuck me this sucks.
I am an incredibly tolerant person. I can endure all kinds of shit and manage to find a way of finding a positive spin on it - but if I miss sleep, I will quickly turn into a horrible person. I need my sleep, and it is the number one thing I hate to lose in my life.
I can only hope that I will go deaf soon.

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