I haven't slept a wink all night! Of course, that's nothing new to most of us. However, you would think I'd be in a coma with all the meds I took. I started out with 1/2 a sleeping pill (usually the OTC ones I take put me out with just half a pill) and a Melatonin 5mg. That was at about 9:30pm. I lay down, and once again my legs start these involuntary jerks. Don't know what that is. Anyway, around 12am, I'm still not asleep, so I get up and take the other half of the sleeping pill. At 2pm, I'm still wide away, my legs are still jerking from time to time, and now my left shoulder is hurting! I get up to put ice on the shoulder and to take an Oxycodone for the pain. I thought for sure this would finally knock me out. No such luck. Would you believe it? All those meds and NO SLEEP! Finally around 7am, I get out of bed and take a hot soak in the tub, dry off and take the dog for a walk (in the rain, no less). What is going on with me??? I know fibro causes sleep disturbances, but this is ridiculous. I have an appt. with my primary dr. on the 27. I hope we can get down to the bottom of these sleep issues and what my husband coined from Seinfeld, "the jimmy legs".
I take meds for restlessleg and it helps with the movement at night. My whole body would jerk and my nero did a sleep study and found I never went into a deep sleep because of all the movement. I take amitriptyline at 6pm then reqip at 9pm and I have actually started sleeping better.
I had a dr tell me I was lacking iron. So I take that every night n I don’t have near the problems with my RLS like unused too. I was put on a prescription but it made me nauseated every morning so I stopped that.
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.....oh you do have my sincere sympathy. I can sometimes get to sleep but wake up soon after with a racing heart and feeling thoroughly exhausted. Like you I start with half a sleeping pill and progress as and when required but GPs here are so reluctant to prescribe them that one has the added worry of running out. The very thought of having nothing to turn to in the depths of the night doesn't bear thinking about.
Wishing you a better night ...... I resort to knitting as a distraction and a way of (hopefully) making me tired.
All the very best ...
D
Like you, Dee, I like to crochet. (I can't knit) Crocheting does "settle" me down a bit. Most of the time, though, crocheting will tire my fingers and shoulders out long before I fall asleep. I still love doing it though.
Lovely to hear from you Rosie and to know that you too get some benefit from being ‘crafty’. Like you it’s a trade-off between the pain of knitting versus the distraction and sense of achievement when so little else is achievable.
Wishing you a peaceful Christmas Eve.
Dee
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