Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: May 2010 Posts: 135 | Hi Minnie. Since narcotics and anti anxiety meds are addictive and if you would like to try a non-addictive med... ask your physician about Trazodone... it is an anti-depressant but if you take 1/2 tablet and go to bed, it will put you to sleep. I've used Trazodone for years and without it, sleep is evasive and short.
Also the inability to sleep, sweats, anxiety are likely withdrawal symptoms from the Fentynl patch and the benzodiazepines. Narcotic withdrawal is quite uncomfortable and often feel like the flu. The symptoms should decrease in a couple of days!!
Dodie
Aunt diag. 2/4/10 with SCC Stage I/II on left side of tongue. Surgery 2/19/10 part. gloss./neck diss. on left side/free flap from chest muscle. TI/II,NO,MO. Clear margins with perineural invasion. Started rads 4/8/10 - 35 treatments, finished 5/26/10.
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