Disturbing Sleep Disturbances
[ rakaur on Wed Jan 16 at 12:02 PM // category: health, life, pain ]
Just adding on to my last post, I’ve also noticed a change in my sleep patterns. When I’m on a not-so-bad-pain day, and I can actually get to sleep without drugs, I tend to sleep for long periods of time, often as much as 18 hours. I’m a night person, and when not in school normally go to bed around 2am, and get up at 11 or so. Lately, I’ve been going to bed at 12:30am and waking up at 1-2pm. One night I came home from a short shift at 6pm, and fell asleep for no apparent reason. My girlfriend woke me up around 11:30pm because she was worried I wouldn’t be able to sleep later. We went back to bed around 1:30am and I didn’t get up until 1:30pm-ish. Before this, I often had trouble sleeping, and now I seem tired most of the day. Caffeine doesn’t seem to help much. I first thought it was the cyclobenzaprine, but sometimes it happens when I’m not taking it, and it didn’t happen for the two months prior while I was taking it.
Lately, since school has started, I’ve been going to bed at midnight or so and waking up around 8. That’s a normal eight hours, but I feel totally exhausted in the morning and I’m very reluctant to get out of bed. I’ve already slept through the alarm once, which I never used to do.
It also appears as if I can no longer take ibuprofen. When I have (relatively) minor pain I just take ibuprofen, but it kills my stomach/intestines now, even if I just do 200mg. The same thing happens when I take naproxen. I can’t tell that APAP does anything for the pain. I guess I just have to suffer through it, because I’m not about to take pain pills for headaches and other random pain.
I’m not entirely sure what to make of any of this.
-- rakaur // 2008.01.16 @ 12:02 PM
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