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?
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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.
talk to your doctor, dont be afraid to ask questions they dont mind tell them your concerns
pain meds make me hyper also…get sleep aid gel caps from walmart and take 2 of them 1 hour before you want to go to sleep…..works great!!!!!!!!!i’ve been on pain meds for years and the sleep aids work….good luck and sleep tight
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Talk to your doctor and pharmacist about this. They might have a safe alternative.
are you taking codeine or a codeine based pain killer? if so,,, ask you dr if there is anything else you can take,,,,, as alot have sleep problems with it
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.
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.
Which keeps you up more, the medication or the pain? Maybe go for one of the opiates. You’ll sleep like a baby
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.
try taken it after dinner, on a full stomach, hopefully by the time you go to bed you will be able to sleep.
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