KEEP HYDRATED
THIS MAKES ME SICK!!
I AM SORRY YOU NOW SUFFER WITH THIS
WHERE ARE THE BRAINS ON COMING
UP WITH PERSONS GOING THROUGH THIS
HORRIBLE PHYSICAL PAIN
IN MANY CASES A PERSON SHOULD BE ON WATCH
HI-ALERT
WHY
THE BODY MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT

PLEASE WATCH KEEP A DIARY
wishing you success
and a life of freedom

thy will be done
AMEN!!!!!

someone who cares

Drowsiness and Clonidine
 

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That was me.

Just has to endure. So drink plenty of fluids, enjoy prunes and dried apricots, then go for the gold!:D:hug:

Not exactly what I wanted to hear! But thanks!

Some of the meds I take make me drowsy and I know how this can be a nuisance. I'm not familiar with clonidine or how you take it, so I'm not much help here, but if I have something going on which requires being fully alert, I try my best to wait to take the med until I'm at home and hopefully later in the day.
I have become used to a couple of the meds and can tolerate them better than I did at first.
9 times outta 10, I end up falling asleep during a movie me and my husband are watching. :rolleyes: .....not such a fun date :o

I also notice that if I have eaten, I tend to get sleepier easier when I take the drousy meds.
Drinking a fizzy soda sometimes helps as a 'kicker'.

Rae
:grouphug:

That reminds me
 

Of fizzy lifting drink!! Yeah from the wonka movie years ago..... it would perk a person right up:D

Hi njbackpain
 

Just try to go slow in scaling down the meds. Hope you are being helped enough. I would rather be sleepy, than jittery as I was for 6 months coming off morphine. It is worth the trouble to reduce the medications. I will be thinking of you and hoping it doesn't last long. All of us are behind you. ginnie:grouphug:

Clonidine has helped ALOT with the withdrawal (.1 mg twice daily) but so sleepy. Tried the energy drinks (5 hour type) but not working. I did call the doc but sleepiness is better than the other issues. Thank you all again for thoughts and prayers.

Oh, btw, next week I taper down to 150 mg nucynta. So, only 4 more steps, I hope.

It will work
 

This is definitely one of those items regarding which the wait is well worth it. Getting there carefully and with doc's care as you are is the only prudent way. Pulling for you, praying for you!! :hug::grouphug:

forever
with the angel
calling all angels


someone who loves and cares