I have been that way for as long as I can remember. It was really bad before I was diagnosed and started on Lyrica and started taking melatonin and 5HTP. Seems to be a little better now.

I take Ambien and only sleep 3 or 4 hours and have to come down and try and fall back to sleep on the couch but so tired all day

I have the opposite problem!I would kill for 6-8 hrs. of sleep.I've tried every sleeping pill there is and I still can't sleep.I wake up all night in pain,arms go numb,lower back pain and flip all night.

Sometimes I have a hard time like that. It seems to have a little to do with my hormonal levels along with other things. I've really been fighting against it over the last couple of days, actually. I may try the Melatonin and 5HTP to see if that helps. Are there any side effects with them?

I have more pain the longer i sleep.. 4 hrs is usually what i get.. if i sleep longer Im in pain all day.. if I sleep 4 hrs my pain is less.. but mine is from my back.. laying in one position for anything longer then 4 hrs would be a day of terrible pain.. I go to bed usually 1am or 2am.. then wake at maybe 4 or 5am.. then get up for a while then take a nap like 10am.. my whole sleep schedule is off now with my back issues. and fibro. man i sure miss a good nights rest..

Thanks for your replies! I go to my pain doc today and I'm going to ask her about this again. I used to not be able to sleep either. I was put on Trazadone for that and it helped a lot and then was switched to Clonazepam, which helps too. I'm suspecting Cymbalta is the one that knocks me out though, lol. I'll let ya know! Thanks again!

doctors...blah!

If you notice getting worse, maybe try a sleep clinic? I am getting worse as well and wonder if I should go in for a sleep test. Could be a sign of a form of narcolepsy, sleep apnea, or other sleep disorder.

HOPE YOU FIND RELIEF SOON!

I have had unrefreshing sleep for as long as i can remember, i got dx of narcolepsy 18 months ago, and although i think i've had symptoms of fibro for few years it's only recently due to stress at work that i appear to have had first major 'flare' as i recognise it to be after reading this site, i've got appt with rheumo next week. fibro and sleep disorders go hand in hand, a chicken-egg situation, it's worth going for sleep studies if you've think you've got narcolepsy, it might give you more reason to claim higher disability benefits if you get it confirmed. unfortunately as with fibro, altho ther's meds they don't do much towards helping you function, and sometimes it gets worse. i hate having to decide do i take my 'uppers' to be awake for the day, or do i take pain meds that have sedative in them? just found out by my own research, some that i've been given are dangerous if taken together but i haven't been warned by docs of that risk

mornings use to be the best time of day for me. but lately I have a hard time getting anything done till after lunch. My daughter is home schooled so I have to start getting up and into a routing so she can get her schooling in

I had a horrific experience with cymbalta- very common- google cymbalta withdrawal symptoms- I ended up in the hospital genuinely believing I was dying. Anyways, the cymbalta made me soooo sleepy I slept all the time, but never felt rested. It helped my pain a little for a short period of time. The pain had completely come back after about three months. I got a stomach virus and couldn't keep the pills down so I went into withdrawal. I know you are supposed to taper off, but how can you when you are throwing up ANYTHING you swallow? Alot of people have pretty bad withdrawal symptoms even with tapering. By the time I could hold something down, I had been through what the doctors said was the worst of it. So i stayed off, but I was bed ridden for a month because it made me so dizzy. anyways, more to the point of your question, yes it made me sleep more, but if it doesn't help, there are other options out there and also many treatments that should be out before long, I am in a trial for reboxetine, which is really helping ALOT, we have a while left I have four weeks left in the first part of the trial then 36 weeks in the second part then it goes before the FDA. There are more than a hundred current trials going on for Fibro right now. I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the risks with this drug that the doctors want us to think is soooo great, I was clueless to how severe it could be. I just trusted my doctor would tell me anything major and the "instructions" that come with it don't exactly give you the full picture. I wish I had known. Good luck hope it goes better for you than it did me.