[yamerias]

Anyone else here have problems with sleep during or after hospital stays?

I have recently been in hospital for a week, was on enforced bed rest and hardly slept the entire time I was there…and the pain after the procedure didn't help either.

I'm back home now…been home for a couple of weeks, but sleep is being just as elusive. The pain doesn't help of course…but all I seem to be able to do is catnap here and there.

Anyone else have this kind of issue? Any suggestions on how to resolve it?

[Hamster]

So sorry to hear you had to stay in the hospital! And have pain- yuck. I , myself, haven't had to stay in the hospital for a long time- my daughter has had a few stays and I sure didn't sleep well then but what Mom could? I have had to endure pain, though, recently that interrupted my sleep. My daughter grabbed my hot, very hot, tea, before I could stop her ( to hand it to me – she loves to hand me things-I wasn't feeling well and she wanted to help- she has MR) and some sloshed on her finger( thank God it was only a little on her finger- I cring to think it could have been her burnt!) and she instinctively threw the cup away from her – all over my left side.I waas in a very thin dress and , well, ended up at the ER with second degree burns. THAT was a sleep stopper for sure! Even with the pain meds- though I would not let them give me any vicadin or other “euphoria inducing” *pills as I have seen too many people get hooked and with my sleep problems I was afraid I would be an easy target for dependency .

I wish I could offer you some advice but I really don't have any. all I can do is wish you well and hope you get better soon!

*doctor's words

[yamerias]

Well, I head back to the doctors tomorrow morning, I have developed even worse headaches than usual as well as aches in my knees and one hip. Where I take anticoagulants, there is a risk on the headaches being due to a bleed, so I may need a CT scan.

So, I'm guessing I could end up back in hospital again…but with any luck this time no enforced bed rest!

I just hope there will be some way to get some proper sleep after seeing the doc…we shall see.

[Martin Reed]

'yamerias' wrote on '15:

I just hope there will be some way to get some proper sleep after seeing the doc…we shall see.

Maybe a mallet over the head? I mean, you already have a headache anyway, right? 😉

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[yamerias]

Martin…I'd pay for that…gladly!! 😛

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