I’ve currently been awake for 48 hours straight

Got a nasty flu bug Sunday. Fever between 103 and 104 for about the next 48 hours. 
i could feel it settling in my lungs. My daughter is getting married May 2, I do not want to be dealing with lingering pneumonia so I went to the doc and told them to load the medical equivalent of the parts cannon at me and fire at will!  
I don't know if it's the Albuterol cocktail in the nebulizer, or the combination of everything else, but the last sleep I had was a mid afternoon nap on Tuesday. 
It's a very strange feeling to be awake for this many hours and not feel terribly tired. Yet. 
i binge watched the entire 2nd season of 1923 last night. 
 

I'll send you some of my in-car camera stuff. You'll be asleep in no time. 

Hope you turn the corner and feel better soon! 

My brother was telling me about this AI-like baseball broadcast that’s designed to put you to sleep. It’s all very monotone: “Ground ball to second–a throw to first, and he’s out.”

I've administered gallons of albuterol over my career. I'd expect a little tachycardia, but 48 hours of insomnia would be a bit surprising. I'm guessing they also gave you Atrovent along with the Albuterol ? 

David S. Wallens said:

My brother was telling me about this AI-like baseball broadcast that’s designed to put you to sleep. It’s all very monotone: “Ground ball to second–a throw to first, and he’s out.”

Oh man!  I have to find that. 

In reply to Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) :

Yeah, Albuterol has only made me a little jittery and a racing heart in the past. Minor. 
this also had ipratropium bromide in there. My wife did find insomnia as a rare side effect. 
I didn't use it today, and I'm starting to feel like I've been awake for 2+ days. Looking forward to some sleep tonight 

DrBoost said:

In reply to Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) :
......this also had ipratropium bromide in there. ......

Yep. Atrovent. Commonly known as A&A (albuterol and atrovent).

Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) said:

DrBoost said:

In reply to Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) :
......this also had ipratropium bromide in there. ......

Yep. Atrovent. Commonly known as A&A (albuterol and atrovent).

You nailed it!  

Albuterol did nothing for me, in that it didnt make me feel better.  It stopped the coughing which meant I started to gargle in my chest when I breathed, so I stopped taking it.  The high powered antibiotic nuked the illness but there was still many lingering aftereffects like coughing up bloody scabs.  Fun times.

I dealt with this years disaster by bingeing House episode clips on YouTube, drinking tea, and playing solitaire on my phone (Tripledot).  If I slept it was in half hour chunks, for two weeks straight, punctuated by frequent hot showers to boil the illness out because my body hasn't figured out how to do a fever by itself.

DrBoost said:

David S. Wallens said:

My brother was telling me about this AI-like baseball broadcast that’s designed to put you to sleep. It’s all very monotone: “Ground ball to second–a throw to first, and he’s out.”

Oh man!  I have to find that. 

Got the name of the podcast: Sleep Baseball. 

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Albuterol did nothing for me, in that it didnt make me feel better.  It stopped the coughing which meant I started to gargle in my chest when I breathed, so I stopped taking it.  The high powered antibiotic nuked the illness but there was still many lingering aftereffects like coughing up bloody scabs.  Fun times.

 

I dealt with this years disaster by bingeing House episode clips on YouTube, drinking tea, and playing solitaire on my phone (Tripledot).  If I slept it was in half hour chunks, for two weeks straight, punctuated by frequent hot showers to boil the illness out because my body hasn't figured out how to do a fever by itself.

Crap that sounds horrific!!  

that gargling in the chest is what I'm fighting now. 
 

In reply to David S. Wallens :

Thanks!!

I stayed awake like this in the Navy once, kinda forced on me.  I remember everything being very bright and ethereal near the end.  I discovered coffee as a young man.

In reply to DrBoost :

It was a crapshoot.  As far as I could see the Albuterol was just a cough suppressant, and the coughing was why my throat and stuff were raw and bloody, so I needed to stop coughing to heal but also needed to cough to clear the muck out of my lungs.

I was wishing for one of those oxygen saturated breathable liquids so I could just dissolve and pump the stuff out naturally, but alas that stuff costs in the dollars per milliliter evene before the equipment to oxygenate it   (That scene in The Abyss with the mouse breathing in a liquid was real)

David S. Wallens said:

DrBoost said:

David S. Wallens said:

My brother was telling me about this AI-like baseball broadcast that’s designed to put you to sleep. It’s all very monotone: “Ground ball to second–a throw to first, and he’s out.”

Oh man!  I have to find that. 

Got the name of the podcast: Sleep Baseball. 

This is the same as regular baseball. 

In reply to Paul_VR6 (Forum Supporter) :

I might have made a similar comment. :) 

In reply to DrBoost :

Your name is fitting. ;^)

Jerry said:

I stayed awake like this in the Navy once, kinda forced on me.  I remember everything being very bright and ethereal near the end.  I discovered coffee as a young man.

Friend of mine was on meth until some shock time got him off of it. He told me later that the real kicker for meth was being up days in a row. He said that at night when you're walking down the street and you think you see like something/someone on a tree move - well after that long without sleep you believe it's real. 
Yeesh. 

Jerry said:

I stayed awake like this in the Navy once, kinda forced on me.  I remember everything being very bright and ethereal near the end.  I discovered coffee as a young man.

back in my early 20's i did a 48 hour shift working non-stop as a result of a disaster.  when I finally made it back to my hotel room, i sat down on the hotel bed to take my shoes off, and the next thing I knew it was 9 hours later, my shoes still on...

i learned later in life that i stop being effective after about 12 hours.  I can stay awake for that long, but my ability to complete complex tasks diminishes significantly and by hour 24 i'm about as useful as a walking automaton.  

Love the sleep baseball! You find so much interesting stuff online....like today I found a Rolls Royce chess set.....stupid expensive but I'll bet it sells like crazy.

Rolls-Royce | The Voice of the Maker: The Rolls-Royce Chess Set

ClearWaterMS said:

Jerry said:

I stayed awake like this in the Navy once, kinda forced on me.  I remember everything being very bright and ethereal near the end.  I discovered coffee as a young man.

back in my early 20's i did a 48 hour shift working non-stop as a result of a disaster.  when I finally made it back to my hotel room, i sat down on the hotel bed to take my shoes off, and the next thing I knew it was 9 hours later, my shoes still on...

i learned later in life that i stop being effective after about 12 hours.  I can stay awake for that long, but my ability to complete complex tasks diminishes significantly and by hour 24 i'm about as useful as a walking automaton.  

 

We had a kitchen fire in the pub a few years back, leading into one of the busiest weekends of the year.  I worked for 50 hours straight doing whatever was needed to get the health dept to open us back up in time.  We made it and opened Friday for start of business, and I called my wife to come get me.  I remember having involuntary startle responses and muscle twitches starting at about 24hrs awake, that only got more frequent the longer I went.  When I was done, I remember sitting down waiting for the wife, and the next thing I remember is waking up 14 hours later, in my bed.  Apparently I was lucid and awake for the entire 45min car ride home with my wife, and I don't recall a single second of it. 

Sleep deprivation does some crazy E36 M3 to you. 

Paul_VR6 (Forum Supporter) said:

David S. Wallens said:

DrBoost said:

David S. Wallens said:

My brother was telling me about this AI-like baseball broadcast that’s designed to put you to sleep. It’s all very monotone: “Ground ball to second–a throw to first, and he’s out.”

Oh man!  I have to find that. 

Got the name of the podcast: Sleep Baseball. 

This is the same as regular baseball. 

When I read David's first post I assumed it was just a joke about Baseball being boring.  I'm blown away that someone has enhanced the boring.

 

I was awake for maybe 24-28 hours when I had the flu. The meds kept me awake but it was also because I felt like such trash whenever I did try to sleep. So I got some Vicks Vapo Rub shower steamers and numbing throat spray.  After a combination of the two for about an hour, I could finally breath and it broke my fever. I layed down, put on lofi music and went down like I got hit by a tranquilizer meant for an elephant. Ended up sleeping maybe 14 hours.

When I was much younger and living in Colorado, some friends and I decided to go to see the Daytona 24 hours (1979) so I left home that evening, drove 8 hours to KC to pick up my son and meet up with my friends - we then drove 24 hours straight to get to the race, got our tent up in the infield and wandered around the paddock. Stayed up all night for the race, then got in the car and drove 24 hours home, where I jumped in my car and drove back to Colorado, getting home in time to go to work Tues morning. Went home that evening, fell asleep and woke up on Thursday!

I think that was a total awake time of what - 4 days? I don't remember a lot about that trip other than we had a fun time, tho my friend's Volvo 740 was cramped with all our stuff. We saw a car drive thru a toll booth in the early hours in Florida, the Ferrari's dropped out about midnight due to tire failures of their Michelin tires, and Danny Ongais won the race - he stopped before the finish line about 45 min before the end of the race cause his turbo blew, when time expired he fired it up, drove across the finish line and won - he was THAT far ahead! I also remember it was the debut of the rotary engined RX7's, and OMG they were SOOO damn loud!

I've done 24-hour stints when I was a younger man. I was usually good until about 18 hours, then struggled for the next few, and the last few weren't terrible. 
this stint was 55 hours I think, by the time I got to sleep. The weirdest thing was I didn't feel wired and jittery, and I didn't feel particularly tired. I just never got tired enough to fall asleep. 
it was really weird.