Just wanted to update this~ I am now taking 80 mg of amitriptyline before bed and I am only waking once-twice during the night, unless it is a bad pain night (then I'll wake 5 or so times)! I am so happy that I am finally sleeping, and it really helps with tolerating the pain and coping!

Of course sleeping makes the pain easier to bear- every little thing will make your pain worse or appear worse (being exhausted, hungry or thirsty will even do it)...


Now the thing is- I hope this affect doesn't wear off. With me, after taking a medication for a while, my body builds up a tolerance to it, and it'll stop working like it used to. Does anyone else deal with that? What do you do?

I was on the amni, and had little to no results...

Then they switched me to the Trazodone which worked pretty good, but I had a terrible side effect. It was making my heart race and pound so hard at times it felt like it was coming out of my chest.

The doctor now prescribed a sleeping one, but I am waiting to talk to my primary before I send it in. The first doctor told me it will not help me go to sleep, but only help once I get there...

With highest pain levels at night, I am thinking ... What in the H*** good is that!" I cannot fall asleep and then when I finally pass out from pure exshaustion, I wake 2 hours later with cramping and such... I have to stretch reposition and start the whole process again. Since going off the Trazodone, last week, I am plagued with horrible nightmares on top of all this...

Just my 2 cents, we all react differently to different med's and treatments

Hugs,

Rain

Hope you start sleeping better!

I know, everyone responds differently to medications, and we can't know for sure what will help us until we try it.