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Posted 03 November 2009 - 04:07 PM

Since this thread has gotten long, I'm just gonna reiterate what I said earlier. I had horrible nightmares and woke up exhausted, depressed, and feeling like my brain had run a triathlon. I asked my pdoc what to do since Seroquel really, really, helped my BP symptoms, and he prescribed 1 mg of Ativan with my Seroquel at bedtime. It's worked great. I fall into a deeper level of sleep, don't have the nightmares, and wake up refreshed instead of half-dead. I've been doing this for about a year and a half to two years, and I've never developed a tolerance to the Ativan. If you are having nightmares, but Seroquel is working for you in your waking life, please consider an add-on at bedtime. Doesn't have to be a benzo, but something that puts you in a better level of sleep could help.
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Posted 13 December 2009 - 04:46 AM

It's been a while since anyone posted, but i am so relieved to find this thread. I recently had the worst sexual nightmare/dream after taking 25 mg of seroquel. It has been plaguing me all week and here I am in the midst of finals trying to convince myself it was a side effect of the drug. It is so real, so vivid, that I have been crying all week at anything that brings back a memory. It seemed odd, but I didnt remember the "dream" right away. I woke up feeling fine, and actually had a lot more energy in the morning than I had before when i was on seroquel. It was so real, so plausible, and the molestation dream is haunting me so much that I cannot even love my boyfriend without being haunted. The memories drifted in over the next couple of days, I would see things around my messy room that reminded me of what had "happened" the night before. I was home alone that night and this terrifies me because I dont know if what happened was real. It seemed like how if you get black out drunk, and you remember little things in the following week. It was weird because in my dream/hallucination/ reality? the guys were making fun of me because i thought it wasn't real, and was a dream. The responses were so different and real, Is there any possibility of sleepwalking on seroquel? or having an alternate personality take over? I am diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar disorder and used seroquel to sleep. I stopped taking it, but took it the other night because I desperately needed to get to bed without my mind racing. I remember arguing with this man, saying "no, this is a dream, this isn't real" multiple times until he told me to go back to sleep and I passed out. He said I would find out it was real later on. I remember freaking out, saying that no, it cant be, what am i going to do! I have been tortured and haunted by these memories, and im curious to the possibility of taking 25 mg of seroquel and sleepwalking/sleeptalking. I was very accurate in everything I remember alluding to my life, everything in my room was the same, and in the same spot in my dream as in reality. I am terrified that this could be real, could it? I was drugged in my dream, I remember being held down as I was freaking out and they injected me with a "sex drug" and gave me 2 pills later. It is so detailed, but in my dream I was incapacitated and unable to understand that it wasn't a dream, and that it was real as the guy was telling me. I've been so scared. There are real faces, real places, and I cannot even go home because of this horrible feeling that I get when I am there.

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Posted Yesterday, 01:10 PM

View Postmel1, on 11 September 2005 - 09:59 AM, said:

Ever since I started taking seroquel- several months ago- I have the most vivid, long-lasting, mind-boggling, at-times disturbing, and often downright torturous. Is that normal. Does anyone have these problems. They are similar to those depictions of someone hallucinating on tv(which is never what hallucinating is really like!). I am, strangely enough, not scared during these dreams, as if I am too drugged to feel anything. But they torture me and haunt me and are so disturbing to wake up to. Weird does not begin to describe it. I wouldn't even call it nightmares, because I don't feel frightened, I feel tortured. Is it just me? Or does anyone else have this problem? mel

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Posted Yesterday, 01:17 PM

i started taking serequel a few months ago and i noticed after a couple of weeks the dreams started becoming very vivid and increasingly disturbing. i take 100mg at night for bipolar depression and it does really help with the depression in the day, but the dreams i have at night disturb me throughout the day. even though i can not remember them, i feel they are stuck in the back of my mind. i suspect the serequel makes me remember stuff i tried all my life to block, but in a more cartoonish way so i find it less disturbing. maby thats why the weird dreams. but i cant be sure. i know i dont remember large portions of my life, but for some reason wake up really upset at night. thats why i started taking the sedative insted of a mood stabilizer. i cant be sure this is the reason why your having weird dreams though.
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