First night of NO sleep.....please help

[soontobemom1]

Hi I guess I am quickly becoming a regular here because you guys have been so so helpful.... So yesterday I tapered down to 6 pills of vicodin ES....  As a lot of you know I am 6 wks. pregnant and CT is not an option.... Anyhow, I had said in previous post's that sleep has NEVER in my life been a problem for me.... at the height of my addiction I took xanax 1 or 2 miligram to sleep at night and I am realizing I took it to come down from all the vicodin so I could sleep! Well I stopped taking the xanax 3 days ago and since I only took it at night I had zero side effects from that but, last night I took my last zicodin at 7 pm and fell asleep around 11 pm and at 2:30 am I was up and wide awake... I figured no problem I can always fall back asleep and boy was I wrong... I also thought that sleep would not be a problem for me because I am pregnant and more tired then ever but, again I was WRONG!!!.
I went in to my living room, got on the sofa and put on the TV thinking I would be able to dose off and I did at 6 am!!!!  I have to be up at 7 to get ready for work so I really only got a few hours sleep last night and I feel grogy as ever.....  

I guess my question is 2-fold... 1 ) is this an effect of not taking the xanax or is it from tapering the vicodin so much? 2 .) How long does it last?  Normally I would not care, but, I am in sales and have no idea how I am going to hit the phones today this tired.... UGH!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated or advice on safe ways to get to sleep and stay asleep...

Thanks so much,
TS

[soontobemom1]

wow guys.. thank you.....  I am going to give it one more night and if I can't sleep I am getting that!!!

[bettie1976]

well there you go! and if yer gonna complain about not sleeping gurl, we are gonna give you solutions. so =P

[VicodinHelp]

the only thing in the tylenol pm that aids in sleep is the Diphenhydramine HCl 25 mg

http://www.tylenol.com/product_detail.jhtml?id=tylenol/pain/prod_pm.inc&prod=subppm#Top

which you can buy over the counter at Rite Aid:

http://www.drugstore.com/qxp74912_334918_sespider/rite_aid/sleep_tablets_diphenhydramine_hcl_25_mg.htm

then you will have the sleep aid without the tylenol.  that should do it.

[soontobemom1]

I REALLY want to try my best to do it with nothing more then the Vicodin I am tapering off of!

[bettie1976]

hmmm...sominex? unisom? something along those lines?

[soontobemom1]

thanks... I figured it was from both.... I can't take the tylenol PM because the vicodin is so full of tylenol I would rather just tough it out and see if I can take some short naps or something to get me thru it...

[bettie1976]

i dont know about your ?'s but when I was pg I took two tylenol pms to sleep almost everynight. My hips were spreading (yay! finally got some hips! haha) and bones cracking, couldnt sleep...Its a safe alternative

[exhostage]

Not sleping is a side effect of stopping the zanax and cutting down on the vicoden and it is normal for it to be happening..... how long it lasts varies from person to person. Maybe call your OB and see if there is a natural sleep aid safe for the babe?

[soontobemom1]

I totally understand that and that is why I totally eliminated the xanax and even last night as I lay there never once did I think to take one... It is not an option for me anymore!!  I was kind of trying to find out how long that last's and if it is from not taking xanax or from tapering off the vicodin?

[justlikeyou]

the most important thing is your baby, everything else comes second. when i cant sleep i listen to talk radio or music and stay in bed. altho i dont get the mental rest i am laying flat and get the physical rest. theres no easy way to do what you have to do, but if you dont do it, your baby will suffer badly, and thats not fair.

[DeezNuts]

i'm worried myself, about sleep. i'm a busser. there fore i've got to be fully awake and ready to work. I also took xanax for sleep. it helped so much for me. only at night time too. I'm so sick of taking pills but don't want to not get any sleep. i have no idea how to get sleep. i can't figure it out. but if you do, i want to know! lol