cant sleep

[neverdoubtme]

Hi, I was taking vicodin for 4 years about 15-20 10mg pills a day..I just recently got off the vicodin and started taking suboxene and as of 7 days ago i have been completely clean i went through the WD's it was quite easy compared to other times ive tried to stop before but couldnt bare the pain.....anyways i am having problems sleeping i havnt slept for the past seven days and i cant take it anymore ive tried melatonin, unisom, ny quil, benedryl, lunesta, everything that i can think to put me to sleep i need help please help!!!!!!!!!!

[sunnilynn]

ok so i know ive been there before many times.the body wont tell the mind it sleep time. because you were on vicodan this usally acures when taking /smoking crack.or amphetamines. but its part of the withdrawel. I had a bad withdrawel.22 yrs on methadone.Crack.Xanax. and went to rehab.My body wld not sleep. I took seraquel had to go to a physch. because the drugs messed with my mind as well. thats alot of vicodan i took up to 40 a day. when i had the ways and means .I feel for you. you want sleep.and it wont come.If a xanax or valium dont help and dont keep takin them cause you know there like a gorilla coming off of them. then go see a Pysch. Tell him the truth. bet he will give you a pill that will knock you out. you may feel like .poop the next day but if sleep you want the seraquel will make you sleep .i still cant take them. a 25 mg knocks me out. 2 days. Your well on ur way if u dont go back to pills. Im jealous. look at it this way Id rather be sleepless then depending on something i cant get or get off of. sleep will come back to you. in time when the body goes back to complete normal mode. let me know . please dont take those vicodan and get checked for a big hole in your stomach. because Vic's will cause ulcer's big time. youll be fine.

[laurel453]

this is very normal now... it takes time, are you not sleeping at all or maybe a couple of hours per night ? ... try also a long walk in the evening and a hot bath before going to bed with epsom salts and one of these sleepy teas along with the melatonin.. also are you having trouble with RLS ?

[0421]

Sleep is the last thing to come back to normal, I am 6 months clean and here I sit, was up at 4:44 and went to bed at midnight. Those first couple of weeks where the worst, JUST know it will get better. When I was going through those first few weeks I thought I was going to die from no sleep, guess what you don't!!  so good luck and prayers to you, Bethany