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.
I was taking several narcotic pills a day for 2 or 3 weeks after I broke my arm. Sometime during that period, the headache started. I don't think it was a rebound headache, but rather was caused directly by the narcotic (Oxycodone or something like that). The headache took days to resolve. When I had the second surgery on my arm to remove the pins, I took one narcotic pill and immediately got a headache that lasted for days.
I refuse to take narcotics of any kind now. I wish there were better means of pain management.