The possible 5 hours sleep went to zero. I laid in bed for 4 hours with my iPhone on the whole time reading while my wife slept. I had no idea not taking my Neurontin until 10:30pm would do that. I thought that within an hour of taking it I would get tired and go to sleep but it never happened. I didn't have RLS symptoms, the Suboxone is working fine but I just could not sleep at all, wide awake.
I am contemplating getting ready for work in a 1/2 hour and starting at 5am rather than 7am as usual. I have done that before when RLS was really bad and by getting to work early when I can't sleep anyway seems to work. By 1:30pm when I get off I will be getting very tired but I should be okay. I have my thingy I wear on my ear when something like this happens while driving that wakes me up if I start to nod off. It actually works too well because sometimes when I look down for something in the car it will go off, very annoying sound and buzzer (which it should be).
It always seems like the third day that I have problems. This is a perfect storm. I slept 8 hours the previous two nights, in fact the last night was probably more like 8 hours 20 minutes. So then the 3rd day zero sleep
It is not because I am not tired, it is similar to drinking too much coffee.
My shoulder is bothering me too, not just physically eithers, I am worried about the surgery. Wow, at one time I had had one surgery my entire life which was at age 3 for a lazy eye correction. Then I started getting health problems related to, sinuses, sleep apnea, TMJ, and RLS and the whole surgery thing seemed to explode. I had a sinus surgery where they did a half dozen procedures at once, then a UPPP that did another 1/2 dozen procedures. Then I broke my middle toe on a coffee table getting up because I hadn't had sleep for days because of RLS. Then I got prostate cancer and they took that out. Then they took a cyst out of my back that ruptured, then they operated on the ulnar nerve by my elbow to return my 2 left fingers to normal (they were numb). I had to also have 2 surgeries to correct a hernia from one of the incisions from the cancer surgery. The last being a few months ago.
I was going to have the shoulder taken care of about a week after the last hernia operation but the bone spur went away and I cancelled it. I was very glad to do it too as I am sick of surgeries. This time after the initial meds wear off from surgery they won't be able to give me anything that works for pain because of Suboxone. The hernia surgery was the same way but I have heard from several people that shoulder surgery is one of the most painful. They gave me oxycodone, I think, last time and they did nothing. I was in so much pain I called up the clinic and was yelling at a few people
I was a little out of my mind with pain. That is where it stands now. The waiting is the hard part. This time though I will know going into it, which I didn't really understand before, that the pain meds won't work. I will just have to bite the bullet and do it cause the arm is rather useless this way and it won't get any better sitting here.
Off to the shower and work.
