Ok - I know I could post this on a different board, but I figure since MOST of my questions/issues are on THIS board - I'd get some good responses/answers from all of you wonderful women.
I have a hard time sleeping at night...and the past week has been horrible - mainly because of my back injury (which I posted about in a previous thread...). Well, last week it was mainly that I couldn't sleep because of the injury - I'm a tosser/turner and I just could NOT get comfy. :-(
The thing is too - I got pain pills last Tuesday for my back issues - and the pain meds just did HAVOC on my appetite - I lost my appetite and could barely eat anything and in the past week I've lost 5 pounds (yay! lol j/k...) but seriously...
I stopped the pain meds on saturday and during the middle of the night - I'd say since Saturday night - when my back actually started to feel better - I've been getting up and going downstairs every other hour for something to drink...and yeah - after the first few times I just kept a bottle of water upstairs in the bedroom....last night - for some reason - ALL i wanted was orange juice, and I finished off the rest of the carton (maybe half/carton?) during the middle of the night - granted, it was the lighter sugar OJ - but still...and this morning - I came into work and HAD to have more - so I got a small bottle of OJ at work.
Now, normally I don't even drink juice (i pretty much keep my fluids to water, milk, and the occasional beer on the weekend, to be honest - lol)....but mainly all I drink is water.
But anyways - I'm not sure if it's because of the pain meds working their way out of my system - but the last 4 nights - i've not been able to sleep and I've had to have something to drink next to the bed allllllll night long.
SO. Do any of you know of any thing that would help me actually sleep THROUGH the night and NOT wake up every hour needing something to drink? I REALLY don't want to go back to the doc (i'm starting to feel like a pharmacy - and i'm NOT one to take a lot of pills!) and I HATE feeling like a hypo-chondriac (sp) - but I just can NOT sleep! :
Anyone have any suggestions?