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Posted by Phillipa on January 20, 2014, at 9:26:24
Since I only take small doses of meds why is every night nightmares and when wake I'm feeling bad. Seems strange as since no meds during the day as the day goes on I feel better. Then when eat I start to feel worse. I don't get it. I keep thinking it's the synthroid I take about 7am when wake and then go back to sleep. As bedtime is 3am. This has been going on for three years. And I've questioned the synthroid and the endo says no. the pdoc is an idiot and doesn't care. Phillipa
Posted by vbs on January 20, 2014, at 10:00:16
In reply to Anyone get nightmares from taking meds?, posted by Phillipa on January 20, 2014, at 9:26:24
I don't get nightmares per se, but I have weird dreams.
Posted by Phillipa on January 20, 2014, at 20:26:05
In reply to Re: Anyone get nightmares from taking meds? » Phillipa, posted by vbs on January 20, 2014, at 10:00:16
I guess that is more what mine are also. All I know is don't like them. Phillipa
Posted by bleauberry on January 21, 2014, at 12:25:14
In reply to Anyone get nightmares from taking meds?, posted by Phillipa on January 20, 2014, at 9:26:24
Phillipa, just an outside observation, I do not see anything in your description here that would point suspicion toward any of the meds. It looks more like disease pathology than it does medication effects, to me anyway.
Any of your meds can and do mess up sleep architecture. Even tiny doses can do that. Especially when there are other issues going on.
> Since I only take small doses of meds why is every night nightmares and when wake I'm feeling bad. Seems strange as since no meds during the day as the day goes on I feel better. Then when eat I start to feel worse. I don't get it. I keep thinking it's the synthroid I take about 7am when wake and then go back to sleep. As bedtime is 3am. This has been going on for three years. And I've questioned the synthroid and the endo says no. the pdoc is an idiot and doesn't care. Phillipa
Posted by Twinleaf on January 21, 2014, at 12:53:53
In reply to Re: Anyone get nightmares from taking meds? » Phillipa, posted by bleauberry on January 21, 2014, at 12:25:14
Phillipa, I think bleauberry is most likely right. Medications are notorious for disturbing sleep architecture, but actual nightmares are very probably due to unresolved trauma. I also had them almost every night; after some time in therapy, they disappeared completely.
I know you would prefer not to have therapy; an alternative might be to try a low dose of Prazosin at night.
Posted by baseball55 on January 21, 2014, at 19:10:39
In reply to Re: Anyone get nightmares from taking meds?, posted by Twinleaf on January 21, 2014, at 12:53:53
I had nightmares and disturbing dreams all the time when I started therapy. They were mostly about him - my therapist - rejecting me, assaulting me, yelling at me, treating me with contempt. I was working through all this childhood trauma stuff in my dreams and in my relationship to him.
After a while in therapy, the dreams stopped. Now I barely remember my dreams.
Posted by GavinoFelix on January 21, 2014, at 19:13:56
In reply to Re: Anyone get nightmares from taking meds?, posted by Twinleaf on January 21, 2014, at 12:53:53
Strangely, when I'm not doing well (for years at a stretch) I didn't ever notice having any dreams.
I could tell something special was happening when I started clomipramine 1 year ago: I started having and remembering my dreams! It is interesting: I know depression screws up the whole sleeping process, but don't really know enough to interpret the significance of a dream state resurfacing in my life.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on January 21, 2014, at 21:38:33
In reply to Anyone get nightmares from taking meds?, posted by Phillipa on January 20, 2014, at 9:26:24
I had a nightmare that my mother was cooking for a party and she was putting Murphy's oil soap in all of the food.
I had to keep people from getting poisoned. Weird....
Posted by Phillipa on January 21, 2014, at 21:54:57
In reply to Re: Anyone get nightmares from taking meds?, posted by sleepygirl2 on January 21, 2014, at 21:38:33
Those are the kind I mean. Weird stuff that makes no sense and you spend time trying to figure out what the heck? Phillipa
Posted by baseball55 on January 22, 2014, at 19:04:51
In reply to Re: Anyone get nightmares from taking meds? » sleepygirl2, posted by Phillipa on January 21, 2014, at 21:54:57
> Those are the kind I mean. Weird stuff that makes no sense and you spend time trying to figure out what the heck? Phillipa
Why bother trying to figure it out? Dreams are weird by definition. Most dreams are not very memorable unless they hit some deep emotional spot. In that case, they're disturbing, but pretty obvious also.
But I also have good dreams -- some beautiful place -- and interesting dreams - some action/adventure kind of story.
Posted by Elanor Roosevelt on January 23, 2014, at 19:26:43
In reply to Re: Anyone get nightmares from taking meds? » sleepygirl2, posted by Phillipa on January 21, 2014, at 21:54:57
I love the dreamworld and sometimes even find nightmares interesting
but one summer lost to bad meds, i took serzone + luvox (not at the same time) and one of them caused me to have horrible nightmares about killing baby animals
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