Originally Posted by Erin524

There may be something to the baclofen causing insomnia. Because I dont fall asleep most nights until the next morning. (didnt fall asleep till about 6am)

I'll lay down around 3am and not fall asleep most nights, (watching a tv show that's on at 2am every night) and so I'll get up and read my Kindle a little bit to try to get tired. If it's coming up on 5am, I'll just give up on sleeping and go have breakfast with my dad if it's one of his working days. (he makes me a bowl of Cream of Wheat with cinnamon sugar on it...that'll help me sleep)

I didnt fall asleep till after 6am this morning. Stayed up after eating breakfast with my dad to wait for the paper to get delivered so that I didnt have to worry about my mom going outside to get it and falling down on any ice in the driveway. (yeah, as if I'm any more stable walking than she is)

My dad doesnt work tomorrow so I'm going to make more of an attempt to fall asleep before 3am. I am so tired right now, just sitting down makes me want to fall asleep. I'm going to set my tivo to record the show that I watch at 2am so that I can watch it tomorrow instead, and I'm going to make the attempt to lay down around 11 or 12 tonight and see if I end up falling asleep.

I live in the Central time zone, but I'm starting to wonder what state/and or country's time zone I sleep in...(maybe Hawaii time?)

Originally Posted by Erin524

I take baclofen, 3 of them before bed, because it makes me sleepy. I have insomnia problems, at least the baclofen seems to help that.

I quit taking the gabapentin last fall. It was making my feet and ankles swell with edema. Replaced that with Lyrica, quit the Lyrica after about 10 days partially because it made me so stoned, I couldnt do anything. All I wanted to do was sleep. I didnt realize that it was what was causing me to fall asleep standing up.

Other reason that I quit Lyrica, it's apparently the same class as gabapentin and it was not only causing my feet and ankles to swell, but it was making my hands swell and other parts of my body. I had such bad edema that I went to my regular doctor and asked to have my heart checked because the edema was so bad that I was coughing all the time and feeling really weak. (my dad, a nurse, was worried that I was having symptoms of congestive heart failure) I did have some problem with my heart...cant remember what it was called....regurgitation something or another.

The edema in my hands was making my hands more numb. Once I got rid of all that extra fluid some of the numbness that I'd been blaming on the MS got a lot better.

So, I guess I cant take medications like gabapentin and lyrica.

Love the baclofen tho. I really dont like being woken up by my legs trying to kick me in the butt with my heels. Spasticity sucks. Sometimes I take a little valium (another muscle relaxer similar to baclofen) if the spasticity is really annoying.