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. ;^)