Fibro Insomnia: Anyone Else Struggling?

Every night

Very often, but I take my nerve blockers and my other meds and I eventually knock out

Me and my fibro friends call it painsomnia

Yea all the time, in fact I can't sleep most nights unless I take something to help me sleep

All the insomnia meds I was prescribed made me feel like 😵‍💫🧟‍♀️ & the fog from not sleeping can be terrible, I hope this can kind of help

Weed helps!

Yep! My doctor put me on amitriptyline for it. It’s been working well so far.

I used to severely struggle with my insomnia. I read a few studies last year that showed that the fibro brain causes deep sleep deprivation since it never relaxes or "turns off" enough for the body to achieve actual deep sleep. After that, I did some research and found that gabapentin is great for nerve pain as well as promoting deep sleep (I think it's technically a sedative). I started taking 300mg am, midday and pm - I now take 600mg am and midday with 900mg at night. (As well as 20mg cyclobenzaprine). I went from a career insomniac to sleeping like a baby!

This is my life.

Yes. So much so!

Yep! I never called it fibro insomnia but I love that! Funny thing is, sleep generally helps my pain! But then I can’t fall asleep so it’s worse and then I need to sleep even more….it’s a vicious cycle!

Literally right now.

Yes

yes omg

Yes it takes me hours to fall asleep even after i take my sleep meds.