Wondering if any of you with ME/CFS have the “opposite” response to medication that I do. If I have to take a pain medication late in the day, it keeps me up that night. These are pain medications that make ordinary people groggy. I needed to take a medication late this afternoon, and here I am wide awake in the middle of the night again.
I’m one of those who can’t drink caffeine in the afternoon without having it effect my sleep that night…that makes sense. But, pain medications that in most people make them sleepy keeping me awake… hmmmm…I don’t get it.
The onset of severe pain late in the day means little sleep that night, be it the pain that keeps me awake (when I forego the medicine) or the medicine that eases the pain that keeps me awake. Tonight the pain is bearable but the insomnia…ugh!
Can anyone relate?
Wondering if any of you with ME/CFS have the “opposite” response to medication that I do. If I have to take a pain medication late in the day, it keeps me up that night. These are pain medications that make ordinary people groggy. I needed to take a medication late this afternoon, and here I am wide awake in the middle of the night again.
I’m one of those who can’t drink caffeine in the afternoon without having it effect my sleep that night…that makes sense. But, pain medications that in most people make them sleepy keeping me awake… hmmmm…I don’t get it.
The onset of severe pain late in the day means little sleep that night, be it the pain that keeps me awake (when I forego the medicine) or the medicine that eases the pain that keeps me awake. Tonight the pain is bearable but the insomnia…ugh!
Can anyone relate?