Re: Pain in the Morning

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--- " imstillhereyet " wrote:

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> I have no idea why I`m going on like this. I guess I just needed

to get

> it out.

Hi -

Insomnia can be very exhausting, both mentally and physically. I can

certainly empathize. I feel like I've got a " sleep dept " of months

built up now! I was up until 3:45 last night, unable to sleep

because of pain, and up again at 8 a.m., unable to get back to sleep

once I woke up at my usual time. Eventually it will all probably

catch up to me and I'll crash and burn. I know I feel a whole lot

older than I should, and most of that is due to lack of sleep.

I wish I could offer more than moral support. There are sleeping

meds that you can take in the middle of the night once you wake up

like this. Sonata is a four-hour sleeping med that can be taken twice

a night - once when you go to bed and then again when you wake up in

the middle of the night like you're doing.

There's also Ambien CR, which is supposed to release the med slowly

to keep you asleep. I prefer Sonata myself - I don't feel as groggy

the next morning. But after a while, these kinds of meds don't seem

to help as much, so I'm off them for a while.

More than anything, if your pain is waking you up, you need better

control of the pain and the sleep will take care of itself. Talk to

your doctor and tell him what is happening. If you're on a short-

acting opiod that wears off after four hours, it's no wonder you're

waking up in the middle of the night. If that's the case, you

definitely need to be switched to a long-acting opiod, like

Oxycontin, MSContin (or Kadian), Fentanyl, or Methadone. If money is

an issue, methadone is extremely cheap!

Meditation and deep breathing also help me some when nothing else

will work. It at least takes the stress out of being awake!

I hope you can find some solutions, and some peaceful sleep.

Cheryl in AZ

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