Having trouble sleeping Day 5 post op

[Biggy 7]

This is DAY 5 post op and I have had 4 nights since the sleeve. Have anyone else experiences lack of sleep. This has been the 2nd night that I wake up at 3 am and I'm up until 7 or 8 am. What wakes me up is my lower back pain which then keeps me awake. Today, I took a tylenol which I cut into fourths and still hurts. Currently, on the couch not sleepy at all. Any suggestions???/

[lkleigh 38]

I'm four weeks out and still can't go to sleep without taking pills. I've always had sleeping problems, but it's worse now. I don't have any pain, just insomnia.

[Susan-031314 179]

I had a little of that in my first week post surgery. Like you described, I'd wake up early morning unable to get back to sleep. I bought children's dissolvable Tylenol, much easier than crumbled tabs. My insomnia got better quickly. Occasionally, I wake with a burning esophagus. Sometimes I reach for a wedge pillow, I also will take a small sip of Mylanta (CVS generic) just to coat my throat.

[Jenelle 141]

I have 2 herniated disks so the back pain for me was horrible. I did not need to take the morphine at the hospital because they put toradol in my IV. sleeping on my back was horrible and I can honestly say the back pain was worst than the stomach pain I took the meds they gave me at home just because of the back pain. I bought a body pillow and around the 5th day I started trying to sleep on my side and this worked a little I also took my meds before bed time not so much during the day. The body pillow helped a lot I strongly recommended.

[Biggy 7]

Thank you for helping me and responding to my message. Luckily, I was able to sleep better last night. Hopefully the rest of the nights are the same.

[Comfy_Blue 285]

I had a lot of trouble sleeping in the beginning. I think it's the lower/lack of calories. I had a hard time falling asleep and I would wake up all throughout the night, something that had been a problem for me all throughout my teenage and young adult years (during which time I was at my lowest weights of between 140 - 160lbs). After a few weeks, I was able to sleep again without the use of sleeping pills.

I hate sleeping on my back, so I began sleeping on my side with a pillow to support me.

Now the main issue I have is that because I am thinner, I don't have as much padding on my body, so sometimes when I am on my side, it feels like my hipbones are poking into the mattress. It's a bizarre sensation that feels like a cross between having my funny bone hit and hurting/aching.