[PaulnDenver]

Hi All,

I just clobbered my overly long post, and feel disgusted at the lost work.

So I had really severe sleep deprivation caused by uncontrolled pain that woke me after 3.5 hours of sleep or even stillness.

– 2 months sleeping ~3.5 hrs/night

– 2 months sleeping ~3.5 hrs on Night 1, but NO SLEEP on Night 2.

It may seem hard to believe, but it happened.  I was terribly blunted cognitively, and could not help myself.  My doctor became ill with Leukemia during this and left the practice, so he didn’t catch it either.

The new Colorado Narcotics laws prevented my doctor from prescribing adequate pain medication, and I kept stuck in the above, waking to 8+/10 pain – meaning waking disoriented and unable to think normally.  It took over a half hour to orient myself at first, but I got better at that pretty quickly.  Then enduring agony until the medication kicked in.  It was a nightmare, and I am traumatized, and slowly coming out of it.

I had early stage dementia (“benign forgetfulness”) last summer, and I’m afraid the sleep deprivation damaged my brain and worsened my dementia.  I now get great benefit from Piracetam, a nootropic used for early stage dementia, which is new – I didn’t notice much effect from it last summer.

Anyway, sorry for my haste, but would appreciate any ideas on recovery from long term sleep deprivation.  I’d also like anyone who lives with chronic pain and having problems from new laws to please message me.

Thanks in advance,

Paul

 

[Martin Reed]

Hello Paul and thank you for joining the forum. Unsurprisingly, chronic pain can have a very real impact on sleep. Usually, chronic pain makes it difficult to fall asleep. When we wake during the night (which is quite normal) we once again recognize the pain and this can make it hard to fall back to sleep.

The good news is, there is no evidence that insomnia causes any health problem, damages the brain, or worsens dementia.

Can you clarify what your current sleep pattern is? Are you saying that, for the past two months, you experience one night of three-and-a-half hours of sleep followed by a night of no sleep, then you repeat this process, over and over?

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[PaulnDenver]

Hi All,

[ This is an edited re-post of the original post w/time frame info. ]

I just clobbered my overly long post, and feel disgusted at the lost work.

So I had really severe sleep deprivation caused by uncontrolled pain that woke me after 3.5 hours of sleep or even lying perfectly still but awake.  The pain responded to NSAIDs when I resumed them on March 7, but NSAIDs are prohibited during Prolotherapy.   I had started monthly Prolotherapy injections in late May of last year, and continued to sleep until the start of November, shortly after getting another round of injections, when I began waking after 3.5 hours.  The sleep deprivation was so disruptive, I have not had any Prolotherapy since then.

– 2 months sleeping ~3.5 hrs/night (Nov-Dec)

– 2 months sleeping ~3.5 hrs on Night 1, but NO SLEEP on Night 2.  (Jan-early March).

It may seem hard to believe, but it happened.  I was terribly blunted cognitively, and could not help myself.  My doctor became ill with Leukemia during this and left the practice, so he didn’t catch it either.

The new Colorado Narcotics laws prevented my doctor from prescribing adequate pain medication, and I kept stuck in the above, waking to 8+/10 pain – meaning waking disoriented and unable to think normally.  It took over a half hour to orient myself at first, but I got better at that pretty quickly.  Then enduring agony until the medication kicked in.  It was a nightmare, and I was traumatized, and am now slowly coming out of it.

I had early stage dementia (“benign forgetfulness”) last summer, and I’m afraid the sleep deprivation damaged my brain and worsened my dementia.  I now get great benefit from Piracetam, a nootropic used for early stage dementia, which is much different from last summer, when I didn’t notice much effect from it at all.

Anyway, sorry for my haste, but I would appreciate any ideas on recovery from long term sleep deprivation.  Not counting a few weeks trying re-establish a solar synchronized sleep cycle, it has been  over 2-1/2 months of sleeping >6 hrs/night most nights.

I’d also like anyone who lives with chronic pain and having problems from new laws to please message me if interested.

Thanks in advance,

Paul

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