not sleeping

[lou1]

Another night and I'm awake, roll on Monday when I can see the GP to get my tables and start and have a good nights sleep. It will teach me to think the tables are not working you don't know till I'v not got them. Sorry I just wanted to have a mourn. night night I think I'll watch a bad film it might make me go to sleep

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Did you Doctor give you Temazepam 10mg 1 tab a night, It does not always do the trick, espescially when we are taking so many Meds. What I try to do at night is to take my drugs half an hour at a time leaving the strongest ones till last . I can't sleep either because I get Restless leg Syndronme which drives you crazy, so I take Temazepam as the last drug . Some times it works, some times it does not. But if nothing is working get up,. theres nothing worse that lying in bed thing rubbish. If you have something funny then put in on the television it helps.

Best of luck for tonight. Ken

[lou1]

Hi Kev

No they gave me amitriptyline but as i said its me fault as i forgot to get it before i run out of it (thats the memory Ha! Ha!as i don't have a good one) anyway now i do know it works as i am back to what i was before i started taking it in pain and thats still taking my other pain killers but not sleeping and the doc said if i could sleep better the pain would ease and it did. well it want be long now mondays not that far off. I will try and watch a funny film tonight but i have one of my grandsons and hes only 2 years so hes up at 6 every morning so i will try and go to sleep earlier tonight.

Thanks Kev it good to know we are not alone.

[Pammy76]

hello there. I just wanted to say that I too have sleepless nights, my GP offered me some more drugs, but I feel we take enough as it is and I am afraid of how they interact with each other. This may sound silly but I have found that taking pain klillers a couple of hours before I slepp and drinking hot milk with a sugar in it soothes me and calms me down! I have a routine now and though I dont sleep through the whole night uninterrupted I am getting more sleep now than I did before. The funny film thing............it works, I must admit my lupus is worse when I am sad, though sometimes it is the lupus that causes the sadness! we are fighting a battle but we will just have to take one day at a time..........