Insomnia

[Two_Sheds]

2 nights running now, actually it's about 4 nights a week, and I'm waking up at about 4am in pain. Took pills but the drugs don't work

[Snadger]

2 nights running now, actually it's about 4 nights a week, and I'm waking up at about 4am in pain. Took pills but the drugs don't work

I know I'm not a Guru on pain matters but surely there are slow release painkillers to give you a decent nights sleep?

[Jeanied]

Sounds like you need a different bed, TS and as Snadger has suggested, painkillers before you feel the pain not after. It is a process of pain management- I'm sure you know about this and also which painkillers you can double up to control breakthrough pain.
If it is keeping you awake then you should be taking this up with the doctors and getting referred to a pain specialist.

Just read that through and realised something of a double entendre there...

[Two_Sheds]

I know I'm not a Guru on pain matters but surely there are slow release painkillers to give you a decent nights sleep?

I'm on them, they aren't working any more

Sounds like you need a different bed, TS ...you should be ... getting referred to a pain specialist.

We've lashed out on a Tempur which won't be paid for until 2015. It hasn't helped.

I have a variety of cushions, pads & back supports: they don't help for long.

I'm paying for private back massage therapy (not avail on NHS). This gives wonderful, but temporary, relief, but I can't really afford it.

I have been going to Pain Clinics for 15 years. There's really very little they can do for chronic pain. I have to "learn to live with it" now