insomnia and night sweats Posted: 05-06-08 10:01am
My husband is an cocaine addict. He has
been clean for 7 months. He does still
tend to over abuse medications like
tramadol and now even his anti
depressants. He figured out that they
make him sleepy so he would take more to
help him sleep. He had very bad night
sweats when he was on Effexor. He did not
abuse these. However, he also was using
way too many tramadol too quickly. (his
pain tolerance is very high) The doctor
switched him to Zyprexia and he overused
these. He came off them and didn't renew
his RX for several weeks. And one point
he said he actually felt better. Then the
depression really hit. Besides being on a
strict court ordered program for his
recovery, unemployed, and recent knee
surgery, he had gotten severly depressed.
He was placed back on Zyprexia. He
started taking more than what was
prescribed and I confronted him. He got
flu like symptoms and this is a common
side effect. He says he is stopping that
and taking only 1 a night. They are 10mg.
I am concerned because the night sweats,
anxiety, and severe insomnia is back. I
know his abuse of this med. and getting
over his actual addiction is part of it.
However, he frequently has stomach upset,
cramps, diarrhea, and nausea also. He
does chewing tobacco daily, several times
a day for over 20 years. Could there be
some type of cancer here?
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Tmddyan
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Posted: 05-06-08 13:12pm
ok im going to move this to the sleep
disorder forum--you may also want to post
in addiction recovery as well
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