Pain affecting on Sleep Pattern

I have been prescribed Celebrex for pain management. I think the dosage is too low. It wears off in about 7 hours. I should be taking it in 12 hours periods. I just realized that I don't - I take it just before I go to bed, and as soon as I wake up. That means the later part of the waking period has less control over pain. That is what I am experiencing.

The pain is now manifesting in my hips and my tail bone. Tail bone feels like it is burning slightly (when the meds wear off).

I went to sleep at midnight 2 nights ago, and awake at 7 - couldn't figure out what caused the difference. Now I know it was the pain. Last night I tried to go to bed at 10PM - hips hurt too much to lie down on them. Took Celebrex dosage (plus another at night time: Lyrica). It was 2 hours before I could lay down.

I have ordered a visco-elastic memory foam 6 inch leg wedge to see if that will make me comfortable enough to be able to sleep on my back. I have never been able to sleep on my back (as far back as I can remember). It causes pain in my legs, especially the feet. My feet would get really cold and numb - so I assumed it was due to blood flow restricction.

I got a massage yesterday for the first time. It felt good, but was not wonderful, like I have heard some people say. I can tell that it removed a great deal of stress from my flesh, and prehaps I should not expect more. I plan to get one once a week. He does do home visits - which I should do. I hestitate about it because I live in a gated community, and the gate is automated - closes at 7 PM. I will have to see how I can arrange this.

I had an MRI taken of my lumbar. I was too big to fit into the tube of the MRI device at the clinic, so I had to go to another facility. This facility was not part of the affiliated services which i used, so I got to take posession of the films. So I put on some latex gloves, and looked at the films. An MRI is a sequence of slices through the body, and don't make much sense until you can step through the sequence rapidly (It's a 3D image).

But the vertical cross-section showed one thing. I would clearly see the vertibrae, then the cord within the vertebrae center, then the tube in the middle on the spinal cord that is filled with fluid. At 3 places - I assume L3, L4 and L5, the spinal cord is pinched a lot. On L5, it is pinched so much, it is nearly to the tube in the middle of the spinal cord. This cannot be good. We'll see what Dr. guess will say on 6 AUG