'habit forming' downward spiral
Never having had to take more than two/week, I've never bothered to delve too deeply into the uncommon side effects of my sleeping pills before -- I know my doctor went over them, he always does, but frankly, I've had a bottle of Restoril in my possession as long as I've had any migraine meds around, which has been more than long enough to forget about the side effects that I don't normally see. Anyway, someone was asking about sleep aids on the migraine community today, so I recommended mine since I've had really great results with it (read: it's never once caused a rebound or hangover migraine, which is more than can be said for any other sleep aid I've tried), and they said they probably wouldn't try based on the type of drug without explaining why. This made me curious, so I got online and looked it up in a few places to figure out why this class of meds would be bad (didn't quite get that -- pamc, isyllt, any insight into why temazepam would suck for migraneurs? My GP and old neuro both recommended it, and like I said, it's never caused a rebound or hangover headache for *me*, so...) but I did find something interesting: Restoril can cause muscle soreness and aches, especially backaches, when used enough.
Lately, I've been taking my restoril more often since I've been having backaches so bad they're keeping me up at night. And they've been getting worse, despite a lot of stretching, yoga, backrubs when I can get them and a rigourous programme of forcing myself to maintain better posture.
I can't be sure the two are related, since the backpain started before I started increasing the frequencing of my restoril dosing, I'm still not exceeding my dosing doctor's recommended amount and the back pain persisted through two weeks of dealing with no sleep/no meds to make sure I wasn't building up a tolerance, but -- this ,ight ba an aspect of 'habit forming' that I know exists, but haven't yet had to face: medicine causing or aggrevating a condition, for which you must take more of the medicine (I've been lucky and have managed not to fall into a rebound cycle with my migraines, but I know they exist and how to avoid them -- so if this does turn out to be... what, a rebound back pain issue? then I should be able to break the cycle quickly enough and stay out of it from now on.
Still, I feel hella dumb for not looking at side effect info before almost doubling my per week dosage of this particular med -- I'm usually not that careless :( Meh, they might not be related at all; I'm going to try another two weeks off if I can stand the not sleeping part and see if that does anythign for my back.
Lately, I've been taking my restoril more often since I've been having backaches so bad they're keeping me up at night. And they've been getting worse, despite a lot of stretching, yoga, backrubs when I can get them and a rigourous programme of forcing myself to maintain better posture.
I can't be sure the two are related, since the backpain started before I started increasing the frequencing of my restoril dosing, I'm still not exceeding my dosing doctor's recommended amount and the back pain persisted through two weeks of dealing with no sleep/no meds to make sure I wasn't building up a tolerance, but -- this ,ight ba an aspect of 'habit forming' that I know exists, but haven't yet had to face: medicine causing or aggrevating a condition, for which you must take more of the medicine (I've been lucky and have managed not to fall into a rebound cycle with my migraines, but I know they exist and how to avoid them -- so if this does turn out to be... what, a rebound back pain issue? then I should be able to break the cycle quickly enough and stay out of it from now on.
Still, I feel hella dumb for not looking at side effect info before almost doubling my per week dosage of this particular med -- I'm usually not that careless :( Meh, they might not be related at all; I'm going to try another two weeks off if I can stand the not sleeping part and see if that does anythign for my back.