Good morning insomniac Misfits. F'n back pain woke me up, so I took some pharma to see if it will help me get back to sleep. One of the medications I take is Baclofen 20 mg, a muscle relaxer. And, of course, some Percocet 10 mg (oxycodone). Then Hydroxyzine 50 mg, which is also an opioid potentiator (called a "Vistaril kicker"). This triple set usually does the trick, but I have developed a tolerance to these after being on them for 10+ years. Even if it doesn't help me get back to sleep, it does help relieve the pain enough to sit on the couch to watch TV. I can repeat the triple set every 6 hours.
My current pain specialist put me on this regimen after being hooked on a combination of Fentanyl patch 100 mcg/hour and Dilaudid 4 mg every 6 hours - which was given to me by a different pain specialist. I went through some horrible withdrawals to get off the Fentanyl and Dilaudid, but I am glad to be off of them.