How long before normal sleep?

[hopin2]

I've been off all norco and sleep aids for a week.  I had one good nights sleep 2 nights ago out of sheer exhaustion, and I thought I was going to be back to normal finally.  Then I didn't sleep at all again last night.  I still had some slight muscle spasms and that weird "anxiety" that kind of comes in slow waves, and my heart was beating too fast.  I wasn't on a big dose of norco, at max a month ago, I was taking 4 day and tapered down over a month.  Just wondering if anybody knows how long it takes your sleep cycle to return to normal, or did I do some permanent neurological damage?

[codean]

2,3 or 4 weeks , wow that's a big difference, If it's 2 I'm nearly there, if it's 4, oh man can I do this? I haven't had anything more than a couple of hours a few times in the last 11 days and that was just pure exhaustion as well I'm sure. Rven sleeping pills haven't worked for me.

[hopin2]

yeah, i keep hearing that.  so do you sleep ok now without any sleeping pills?

[kim715]

Mary is right.Sleep or lack there of,seems to take the longest to return to normal.Someone actually put up a poll post about it a while back.I think for most it was around 3 or 4 weeks.Hang in there,it gets better....Kim

[allaboutmary]

It seems sleep is one of the last things to return. I think it was about 2 weeks when I started sleeping again. Hang in there it will come.