I'm terribly afraid of having a painful medical problem, because then I have to make a choice--take the narcotics, even though they don't seem to help with pain at all and make me feel profoundly horrible, or take nothing and keep thinking I need to take something. The last time I took a narcotic, I had a splitting headache for 3 days after one pill.
I think I’m going through a ight withdrawal. I’ve always had a store of vicodin for back injuries and migrainish headaches but I only took maybe one or two a day then nothing for weeks or months.
I’ve had a degree of insomnia for years but after stopping three weeks of 24/7 pain pills it was unbearable. I got my PCP to call in some sleeping pills for me. God bless her! I haven’t slept this well in over ten years.
I took the pill and fell asleep in about half an hour and didn’t move until 7 hours later. I wake up every hour or two usually. It was getting so bad that I had absolutely no energy in the daytime, weak shaky arms and legs and grouchier than I don’t know what. I can’t believe the difference just one good night’s sleep made.
The splitting headache on your end? Years ago a doctor told me sometimes you can get “rebound” pain after the meds wear off and that happened to me too a time or two but it was almost twenty years ago so I forgot what I did to deal with it.
Opiates and I do not mix well.