Non-Restful Sleep

Sorry you're having sleep issues.  I take Amy too. :)  I sleep better than I had before but still have some nights now and then where I'm tossing and turning and groaning with pain.  I'm on 50mgs a night.  I also take a Xanax just before bed, I think that helps with the anxiety I feel when I'm not sleeping as well as I'd like.  I started taking my meds a little earlier than I used to.. about 1 1/2 - 2 hours before bed, that's helped too.

I hope you find some help, I know what your going through and it really stinks.

Warm hugs,

I also dream a lot. I always have. In fact last night I was dreaming that I had this job and the lady wanted to fire me but she couldn't because she was short handed and it was busy. I walked out. Not sure what that one means.

I sleep too, but it also isn't restful. So I started taking ambien and it helps a lot. I get a much more restful sleep than I use to. I also sleep close to ten hours a night. I have always needed more sleep., But sometimes I wonder if I am getting too much.

I hope that you find something that will help you with your sleep.

Best wishes,
hugs, Karen

I've been on 100mg of amitriptyline for 11 yrs (that's why I can finally spell it, hehe). I also take 1 1/2 mg xanax at bedtime. I take them both about a half hour before I go to bed and usually I'm asleep within an hour. If I'm over stimulated in the evenings it takes me longer to go to sleep so I try to have a relaxing evening, doesn't always work with my family. I don't have children at home so it's easier for me to relax. If I had gotten fibro when I had a house full of kids to get ready for bed I probably would have never slept.

 

But I do wake in the early morning hours around 3 or 4 and it takes me a little while to go back to sleep, sometimes I take another half xanax to get back to sleep. Xanax only works for about 6 hrs for me. I can't remember the last time I slept for 12 hrs, it sounds like heaven to me but I probably would be groggy all day if I slept that long. I get about 6 or 7 hrs of sleep a night. Sometimes I remember dreaming.

 

I wouldn't up the ami without your doc's approval. I do believe it helps my pain.

 

luv and hugs

Marlee

Soonest appointment is the 31st of March :P

I'd love to go do a sleep study. I think it would do me a lot of good.

When I'm dreaming lots it usually takes me a good half hour in the morning to search through what was a dream and what is real and at times I remember things and have to second guess.

I was told that Gabapentin can increase dreaming.. but I've also heard the opposite. It's really intersting how different meds effect different people.