Re: Hi.My first post !

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Posted by: " connie tackett " hopetht@...

hopetht

Fri Sep 1, 2006 5:21 pm (PST)

not sleeping can change your life

just like the pain during the day.

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Welcome Fran

I'm another one who can't sleep much .

I've actually taken to sleeping on the couch with

pillows in from of me to hold me into a position while

I sleep

When I try to sleep in our bed as soon as I roll over

the 1st time I'm usually awakened by the shot of pain

, whick I may as well get up because it won't let me

back to sleep.

But on the couch I can usually get almost double the

length that I get in my bed - whoopie so sometimes I

get 4 hours max (usually 2-3 hours)

One thing that helps me at times is my acupuncture ,

for the 1st 3-4 days after a treatment I can sleep for

as much as 6 hours a night but with the insurance

company only wanting to authorize every other week

visits to the acupuncturist , I spend 2/3 of the month

running on little sleep .

If I went every week , I can get to the point where

after 3 weeks I was sleeping 6 hours , on any nights

where I wasn't dealing with breakthru pain levels.

Unfortunatly , only a small percentage (20% responds)

of back pain is treatable with acupuncture , so

insurance companies really make you fight for it , if

it works

i've found one of my biggest problems is when pain

levels get high and only sleeping an hour or two a

day.

I know I get misreable after 6 days of little sleep

and I have a family that I'm sure would agree ;-)

Jim

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