Heart attack 2 weeks ago; angiogram and 2 stents fitted. Sent home with big bag of tablets. Atovastatin, ranitidine, bisopralol, aspirin, rampril, ticagrelor, elantan. For 18 years I've also taken oxycodone every 3 hours for spinal pain. If it wakes me at night I write down the time, take a pre measured dose, wait 10 minutes and go back to bed.
For the last 3 or 4 nights I haven't been able to wake up to take painkiller. I've woken enough to write down the time but been back asleep before I could even take the lid off the bottle. I've also woken desperate for the loo and just gone back to sleep or half woken in pain and not even been able to turn over. I feel totally doped. Tried 111 for advice and just got told ( stupid woman) to NOT take my painkiller. She should try it!!!!!! The only new tablets I take at night are ticagrelor, ranitidine and atorvastatin. Does anyone else get completely. knocked out like that? Last night I didn't take the statin and woke up almost normally for my painkiller.
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Your body and heart have been through the "wars" and you are still healing. Post my bypass I stuggled to wake by 9:00, a month on it was 8:00 and now it is 7:00. Give yourself time.
Thanks Ikowat but this isn't just tiredness. One night I sort of woke in bad pain; wrote down he time; picked up my bottle of painkiller and next I knew was an hour later when the painkilller dropped on the floor. I should be able to wake up to go to the loo instead of having accidents. I'm not simply tired, I'm almost unconscious. I don't care how long I sleep but if I need the loo I do need to be able to go or to stay awake for 3 minutes to take my painkilller. I had no problems in hospital or up to 3 or 4 days ago. It feels to be a build up of one medication that's getting worse.
I tried last night NOT taking the statin and had a normal night's sleep; woke normally to take painkilller and go to the loo although I was out like a light immediately after.
As MichaelJh says tiredness is a normal after effect of a heart attack and all the pills you are taking. However, if you read the posts on statins lots of people have problems with them. If you think the Atrovastatin is the cause then ask your GP to change it to a different one, or to lower the dose. Your should be able to talk to a cardiac nurse at the hospital you were admitted to as well for advice if 111 is no help.
After my heart attack I couldn't stay awake after 9pm, would get up once in the night for the loo and then go to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. Now my tablets (virtually the same as yours) have been reduced, I am still sleeping well. I regard this as a blessing after years of insomnia.
Oh I'm not at all tired like that. I don't need to nap during the day and don't even feel tired when I got to bed after midnight. It's just when the pain in my spine tries to wake me during the night , I just can't surface. If I half wake needing the loo I simply can't wake properly to get there. It does seem to be that full dose of statin but I can't be certain yet.
after an 'oh sh*t' moment every thing goes haywire and with all them emotions to deal with as well! Give yourself time, we have all had to change and adapt so why should you be any different and your not a silly woman and it maybe that that statin doesnt suit you. Talk to your doc about trying a different statin?
Its true what that english tv advert says: whos going to pay the bills, whos going to pick the kids up etc if that is the case, then it will get done one way or another,
its early doors still, give yourself some breathing space
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