I should keep pain medicine in my system at all times so the drugs don't lose their efficacy and potency. How do I do this if I can't take pain medicine at night because it interferes with my sleep?
2006-12-17 03:30:02 · 15 answers · asked by David P 4 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
As a few others asked, is the pain keeping you awake as well, or just the meds? If you were to not take the pain medication, could you sleep with something less strong?
I have the same problem w/ Vicodin etc. If I have surgery, I have to get another drug in a different class to help me sleep- Darvocet if my pain is bad, Tramadol if it's mild. A sleeping pill may help as well.
Talk to your doctor & he/she may give you a night time pain med, or a different medication all together-- or a sleeping pill , but some pain meds/narcotics are NOT to be mixed with sleeping pills as they can stop your breathing if mixed... so be very careful.
2006-12-17 04:43:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't say what kind of pain medication it is, or whether the pain is so bad it keeps you awake. If you can sleep in spite of pain, why take anything? If the pain is that bad that you are having to take a prescription pain medication, then your doctor is the person you should be talking to about this problem.
Frankly, there are only a couple of widely-prescribed painkillers that I can think of that might cause this side effect. If you are having this problem and know without a doubt that it's the medicine, and NOT the pain that is keeping you awake, you probably just need a switch of meds.
2006-12-17 03:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by Scarlett_156 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-28 17:38:47 · answer #3 · answered by Katharine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the same problem with all the pain meds I have taken. I have to chose between being awake and pain free or awake and in pain. Either way, I am awake. I take Melatonin (20mg) but it doesn't help me GET to sleep and I have really wild, vivid dreams. I just get up and do things while I am pain free and sleep off and on during the day. When pain is up there on the chart, I do not function well. I Don't work so time is all I have.
2014-02-01 18:25:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Talk to you doctor about this problem. I have chronic pain, and I have tried several medications. A lot of medications cause different side effects. The trick is to find one with a side effect you can handle. Ask your doctor to try a different med, and if that doesn't help, ask him about sleeping pills. I take sleeping pills a couple of times a week to make sure I get a couple of good nights a week. Don't take them every night or you will become dependent.
Good luck.
2006-12-17 03:41:07 · answer #5 · answered by mbm244 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!
1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.
2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.
The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.
After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net
Ohhh..and Good Luck!
2014-09-17 04:25:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-17 04:56:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't you have some type of sleep medication? What i would do is take your pain med like 2 or 3 hrs. before you go to bed and then in the middle of the night when you wake up take another pill and hopefully it won't interfere w/your sleep??????? Explain this to your doctor and maybe he could give you another type of pain med to take at bedtime that won't interfere with you sleep.
2006-12-17 04:09:58 · answer #8 · answered by VICTORIA L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which keeps you up more, the medication or the pain? Maybe go for one of the opiates. You'll sleep like a baby
2006-12-17 03:31:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tell her to go to the doctor. They will think that she has emotional problems - which clearly she has, but it could be serious. I'm not a medical professional so I don't know about the dosage, but I do know that overdosing can be fatal even days after the overdose.
2016-03-13 07:55:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋