I take 10mg of Amitryptiline which is an anti depressant, for pain, not depression. I take it every night. I also have two different lots of pain killers. Co-Codamol 8/500mg for during the day and Co-Codamol 30/500mg for night time. I only take them when i get pain flare up. The flare ups can last a day, a week or even a month. I take the milder ones for during the day bacuse i childmind. The stronger ones i take at night because they make me very drowsy. However I am getting a bit worried. For the past 10 days I have had to take the painkillers at night, then on monday the pain went, so stopped taking them. However, I haven't slept properly since. I am not getting off to sleep for ages - last night it was 3am. On Tuesday night i was awake till gone midnight, but was wide awake at 5am. I noticed the same thing happened a few weeks ago when i stopped the painkillers after a few days of pain
I am worried that my body is getting reliant on the painkillers during the periods that i need to take them, which as i said above, can be weeks at a time.
Is it worth going to the docs to see about getting different painkillers? Does anyone know if the painkillers can be addictive?