Gaining weight/sleep problems

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Hi everyone, I hope you are all pain-free. I haven't posted in a while

as I was on vacation in sweltering hot Florida. I am now back in

Vermont and the mountains are covered in fall colors as the leaves

turn, I love this time of year. I read a post about gaining weight, I

started to gain weight when my blood sugars came under control, at the

same time I switched from pancrelipase to Creon 10. So I started

absorbing my food and calories much better. I am now at an all-time

high of 215, ouch. My surgeon/gastro Dr was telling me to gain weight

since `1999'. Well, I made him happy and my endocrinologist sad. I

have been having a very hard time sleeping lately. My MD gave me

ambien, which is like a Tic Tac minus the mint, or nothing. I also

have used benadryl, which works less effectively the more you use it.

So, I am at wits end. I tried reading and boring documentaries,

nothing seems to make me sleep. Even tried sleepytime tea and a few

other teas to no avail..any suggestions would be welcomed. Jim

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Hi Jim;

I take 50 mg of trazadone at bedtime for sleep. Puts me out within a

half hour without the groggyness like elavil did. They are both anti-

depressants, but trazadone needs to be taken at dosages nearing 700+

for it to work as an anti-depressant. I did elavil and it wiped me

out for two days.

I have learned to not do anything in bed but sleep (alas I am

single). LOL, I mean not to watch tv in bed or read or anything else

like that. Trained my body to associate being in bed with sleeping.

Hope this helps.

Dick

I got my new sleep number bed by select comfort yesterday and thought

i'D BE SLEEPING LIKE A BABY. bUT SOMEONE, A CERTAIN 105 POUND

LABRADOR HAD OTHER PLANS FOR THE BED FOR THE NIGHT. i SWEAR HE TOOK

UP 3/4 OF THE THING (QUEEN). HE WAS NOT SLEEPING ON MY PREVIOUS

BEDS. wHAT A BRAT. jUST LAST NIGHT. GO FIGURE.

> Hi everyone, I hope you are all pain-free. I haven't posted in a

while

> as I was on vacation in sweltering hot Florida. I am now back in

> Vermont and the mountains are covered in fall colors as the leaves

> turn, I love this time of year. I read a post about gaining weight,

I

> started to gain weight when my blood sugars came under control, at

the

> same time I switched from pancrelipase to Creon 10. So I started

> absorbing my food and calories much better. I am now at an all-time

> high of 215, ouch. My surgeon/gastro Dr was telling me to gain

weight

> since `1999'. Well, I made him happy and my endocrinologist sad. I

> have been having a very hard time sleeping lately. My MD gave me

> ambien, which is like a Tic Tac minus the mint, or nothing. I also

> have used benadryl, which works less effectively the more you use

it.

> So, I am at wits end. I tried reading and boring documentaries,

> nothing seems to make me sleep. Even tried sleepytime tea and a few

> other teas to no avail..any suggestions would be welcomed. Jim

[Guest guest]

>

>Reply-To: pancreatitis

>To: pancreatitis

>Subject: Gaining weight/sleep problems

>Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:40:19 -0000

>

>Hi everyone, I hope you are all pain-free. I haven't posted in a while

>as I was on vacation in sweltering hot Florida. I am now back in

>Vermont and the mountains are covered in fall colors as the leaves

>turn, I love this time of year. I read a post about gaining weight, I

>started to gain weight when my blood sugars came under control, at the

>same time I switched from pancrelipase to Creon 10. So I started

>absorbing my food and calories much better. I am now at an all-time

>high of 215, ouch. My surgeon/gastro Dr was telling me to gain weight

>since `1999'. Well, I made him happy and my endocrinologist sad. I

>have been having a very hard time sleeping lately. My MD gave me

>ambien, which is like a Tic Tac minus the mint, or nothing. I also

>have used benadryl, which works less effectively the more you use it.

>So, I am at wits end. I tried reading and boring documentaries,

>nothing seems to make me sleep. Even tried sleepytime tea and a few

>other teas to no avail..any suggestions would be welcomed. Jim

>

>Jethro,

I take Flexeril for my back problems but I swear it helps with

my CP.My doc agrees as it relaxes ALL muscles including stomach

muscles-kinda interesting.It also relaxes the body for better sleep.I had a

bad problem sleeping but since on the Flexeril-no problem!By the way,I live

in Florida now moving from Connecticut last Nov.Had to get away from the

cold as it mad my symptoms worse.Also,I lived in Vermont from 1960-1970 in

Jericho-east of Burlington-it is a beautiful state with the colors and the

mountains.I was a big skier having skied at Madonna,Jay Peak,Bolton

Valley,Okemo and others.Hope to talk to ya again.

Pete(Fla)

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[Guest guest]

Hi Pete, You just blew my mind...I live in Jericho, right acroos the

street from the Old Red Mill on Route `15. What a small world.

Actually, what a small town..lol. I will talk to my Dr next week about

Flexeril and also Trazadone. Someone sent me an e-mail and said that

trazadone works great for them. I'll see what my Dr has to say. Hope

we are all having a good day. The Red Sox just lost and the Yankee

game is about to begin..GO YANKEES!!!Jim