To Everyone Who Reads This: I am interested in finding out how much others sleep on a daily basis. I am almost 3 months post-op and still do not sleep 6-8 hours at time. I find I can only sleep a couple of hopurs and this continues both day and night. It is frustrating as I miss the evening time with my family and then I am awake all night. Also do some of you find you can go a few hours with very little pain and then all of a sudden it seems like there is pain throughout the sternum and upper chest area. I am asking this as I am wondering if I need a more frequent dosage of medication to control the Dressler's Syndrome. It is so much better than before I was on the medication but it seems to wear off in the evening and the pain comes back and I have trouble climbing the stairs. I take the medication at 8am, 1pm, and 6 pm and then not again until the next morning or is this pain common to all bypass patients In Ed's comment about Dressler's Syndrome he mentions it responds to celebrex but in case there is someone out there who is already on celebrex like I was for arthritis(taking it continuosly for the past 6 years) make sure the doctor gives you something else. In my case the drug used to treat Dressler's Syndrome was indomethacin and a 5 day dosage of prednisone. Also worth mentioning is the fact that I also read where it says that Dressler's Syndrome is very rare - only 1% of patients get it but if this is so- how come it is so common amongst those of us in this group. For more about this read ED's previous comments. Thanks for reading this. Gail 3 x bypass Aug 21, 2003