Maybe the Problem Is the People I'm Sleeping With & Lisinopril is Loopy

PART I: I Need to Sleep with Someone Else

Pride goes before a fall.

The toddler unleashed Niagara in her bed at 2am last night. I am so sorry I said anything. Really.

The hubby's snoring kept me up. I asked him to roll over, but after a while there was no place left to roll.

Then his phone blipped notification of an incoming email at 3 am. (I would like to know who that was so I can send a fax to their home number at the same time.)

He sleeps with his phone.

Because he uses it as his alarm and in case there's an emergency at work.

I hate his phone. Like sleeping with a noisemaker.

The toddler is afraid of the dark and sometimes likes to wail about it in the wee hours of the morning. Think Muslim call to prayer with a side of sobbing.

We slept with the lights on from 4am forward.

My gut decided to be a problem making it difficult to find a comfortable sleeping position.

Muscle cramps woke me up when I did finally get to sleep (don't listen to me when I say the muscle cramps are better).

When the toddler pitter-pattered to our bed this morning, I tried to convince her it wasn't morning yet.

Because I thought it wasn't morning.

Little did I know it was 7:30am.

I wonder how much of an improvement it would be to my health if I moved out, got my own place and slept BY MYSELF?!

PART II: Lisinopril is Loopy

So I forgot to take the Lisinopril this morning and the second I did? BAM! Smacked in the head with foggy dizziness.

Wow.

Lisinopril Side Effects: Like a roller coaster but without the $40 entrance fee.

So that explains that.

Although not the times I feel that way and am not on BP meds (i.e. the almost syncope of the tilt table test, see also the time period between March and Christmas).

I wonder if it will pass? It seems sometimes Lisinopril side effects fade but there's no specific statement of 'dizziness stops after X time' anywhere.

I had been at 10mg. Now I've halved it to 5mg and it's still like getting whiplash from a manic Tilt-A-Whirl.

Strangely, this didn't happen last time. Why can't it ever just be simple?

Time to call the primary care doc I think.