My doctor prescribed me Clonidine to help with the anxiety of withdrawal. It's a blood pressure medication. I don't take it to often because it dropped my bp to 90/70. Maybe you should mention this medication to your doctor and see what he thinks.
Well I just got back from a diff drs app and my blood pressure is still high 144/98 so idk what to think I thought it was from the anxiety but ......
Well several years ago when I had Medicaid I was on Xnax for about five years but I lost my Medicaid due to my husbands job.... I've always had bad anxiety but never ever have I had high blood pressure and that's what scared me my head felt like I had been standing upside down on my head and all the blood rushed to my head and it felt like that for a week and a half!! Along with my arms feeling like they were being broke in half and my chest too, thank God that ha stopped the day I took the Zoloft so it was my anxiety making my BP go up... About the legs hurting bad due to me Kicking non stop ALL night and me screaming and talking in my sleep and the terrible evil dreams, my dr is looking into it he put me on Zoloft and gabapentin which is for leg pain or nerve pain he wants me to take one at night every night but I haven't yet Bc I'm on a high dose of methadone and the dr won't be at my clinic til next Monday or Wednesday so I jut started the Zoloft and my blood pressure has went down and the chest pain and the way my head was feeling like it was gonna burst has stopped ad te past two nights it haven't kicked almost atall BUT the bad dreams or nightmares whatever you call it is still really bad all night but the pain that's gone and the kicking not as bad is a huge relief for me and my husband ✌️Fingers crossed that it stays this way I also still toss and turn all night as well still but it's only been two days idk....
Hey there. Sorry to hear you are going through this. Have you talked to your doctor about your sleeping problems? What is your history with anxiety? Some doctors are quick to prescribe meds and not try therapy first. I believe therapy should always be the first option and if that doesn't work meds could then be an option.
You could try melatonin for sleep. I actually just posted about it on another thread. You can buy it from Fred Meyer. Costco. Safeway. Wal mart. Etc. it's relatively cheap and it is effective. I sometimes take up to 3 to help me sleep. I believe it is safe to take with methadone but I would of course read the label. I suggest giving melatonin a try. If you do let me know how it goes.