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(Message started by: UnsolvedEquation on Sep 25^th, 2003, 8:04am)

Title: Meds and bad dreams
Post by UnsolvedEquation on Sep 25^th, 2003, 8:04am

Just wanted to see if you have had medications which you feel caused you to have nightmares.
For me KEPPRA was a total NIGHTMARE !

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by Turts on Sep 25^th, 2003, 8:10am

sandomigran warps my sleeping mind

:o ??? >:(

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by Tom K on Sep 25^th, 2003, 10:49am

I have been doing the Amerge at night before I go to bed, but let me tell you...the nightmares I have been having are just...wow. Don't know how to explain it, waking up in a cold sweat and all the other stuff...better than having CH's I suppose, but could use a full nights sleep one day this month!

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by 5-string on Sep 25^th, 2003, 11:04am

Since I started taking verapamil I've had very vivid dreams. Not nightmares but really detailed like never before. I remember colors, smells, all kinds of things I did'nt before.
...Mark...

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by Cerberus on Sep 25^th, 2003, 5:55pm

Oh boy where to begin....

Remeron causes odd dreamings
Xanax causes very odd dreamings
Verapamil has caused me some unforettably odd dreamngs...........seems that damn near every anti-depressant can cause such phenomenon.

Geez, beauty part is I dreamed weird shit before I started taking all these.........

Ramon

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by Prense on Sep 25^th, 2003, 6:00pm

Not that I am aware of...although April says I had some rough nights when I was on Topamax.

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by Ree on Sep 25^th, 2003, 6:01pm

Amytryptaline............... horror stories... ! Went off that one ......................ree

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by BarbaraD on Sep 25^th, 2003, 6:02pm

Only when the demon visits in the night - then I have a waking nightmare. Drugs don't do it or at least not so far.

Hugs BD

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by Tom K on Sep 25^th, 2003, 10:00pm

OK, now I can post something that is better than my last. The meds have really worked today...WooHoo! I had a head injury when I was 8, docs say that this may be my cause for getting CH. I think my mother being a migraine sufferer had something to do with it, but never the less; a lot of the times if I have a dream and wake up with a CH, I dream of the accident that gave me the injury. When I wake up it is usually at the point when I got the bolt in the forehead and that is when my CH is full blown. Pretty weird, eh?

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by andy on Sep 25^th, 2003, 10:16pm

I was on the nicotine patch earlier this year and wearing it at nite caused very vivid dreams for me. It was kind of cool cuz i usually dont dream. They were so realistic it was scary ............andy

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by Carl_D on Sep 25^th, 2003, 10:19pm

Uh huh. AmiTRIPtyline

I have dreams that would make Stephen King go fetal.
With the bizarre shit I dream, I just might make a good writer someday.
The dreams I have are very vivid, and sometimes when I first awaken (if not by CH), I am still dreaming for a couple of minutes. Anyone else do that?

Peace,
Carl D

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by taraann on Sep 26^th, 2003, 8:23am

on 09/25/03 at 22:16:58, andy wrote:

So did ya quit? Sam (my hubby) started the patch yesterday.

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by Turts on Sep 26^th, 2003, 8:34am

Quote:

The dreams I have are very vivid, and sometimes when I first awaken (if not by CH), I am still dreaming for a couple of minutes. Anyone else do that?

yeah it seems every morning.

How about confusion about whether events were actually dreamt or lived and needing to spend time concentrating to remember which?

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by andy on Sep 26^th, 2003, 8:43am

on 09/26/03 at 08:23:28, taraann wrote:

So did ya quit? Sam (my hubby) started the patch yesterday.

I quit quitting, I was on them for a few weeks and then i got hit with another cycle after a 3 year break. I dont know if they were the cause but i stressed out and started smoking again. Tell Sam good luck and sweeeet dreams ..............andy

Title: Re: Meds and bad dreams
Post by Big_Dan on Sep 26^th, 2003, 8:59am

... every cluster that has woke me up has a nightmare associated with it...

not the drugs.... just get hit while I'm dreaming I suppose...

-Big Dan