I've recently been diagnosed with PMR
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I've stared on steroids of 20mg, this has reduced the inflation however I've not slept in nearly 3 weeks probably only getting 2 hours a night, I just wondered if this was the norm, my GP px me diazepam but this is not working at all so stopped taking them. Any solutions for the sleeping
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EileenH jude96250
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In the meantime, Anhaga has probably given you the best advice: learn to live with it and take advantage of what it allows you! Many ladies have found new hobbies and use them to pass the time at night. Don't lie awake in bed, get up, do something and go back to bed later. Make sure you have done all the "sleep hygiene" thing - dark room, quiet and the right temperature, no blue lights anywhere in the last hour or so before bed, don't work on the computer, watch TV play with your phone immediately before bed and don't have a clock visible - it makes you think you are not sleeping when in fact you are dozing off between times but you think "I saw every hour on the clock".
Quite a few people have found that having a snack before bed - old-fashioned supper - has helped them sleep better. Others find having a rest during the day helps - you often need to rest with PMR anyway and sometimes having a rest in the day helps with sleep at night, counterintuitive but true.
Do try to manage without adding in other medications. Mostly they don't make a lot of difference and at some point you will want to stop taking them and with some of them that brings its own problems. I don't know WHICH tylenol people are using but it is offered as paracetamol mixed with codeine phosphate and codeine is a controlled drug, available on prescription only in the UK because it is potentially addictive as well as having other side effects. And it rarely helps with the PMR so won't even help reduce the dose of pred.
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