Ashdene Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 OK lately my sleeping has gotten all messed up. Well I usually really battle to sleep, but I am now sleeping but I have another problem. My dreams are so vivid to the extend where I can't tell the reality from my dreams. And I am permanently confused. I don't really remember exactly want I dream about though. But I wake up in a cold sweat. And when I mean cold sweat I mean on Tuesday I changed my sheets and pj's 3 times. Resulting in a real lack of sleep. And to scared to go to sleep. My brother used to suffer from night terrors and occasionally does still. he says when it is to hot it gets worse, so i spoke to him about it. I don't know what to do because its every night now and am so confused on whats is happening and not and why i wake up in a panic. I have tried not to let myself over heat. And its winter anyway. And running out of pj's (eewh) I don't know if its meds? I have been under a lot of stress lately too? I don't know whats happening? Any ideas? xox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashdene Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 oh and i live alone so got nobody to ask if they noticing anything strange. I am already a sleep talker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashdene Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 oh and i live alone so got nobody to ask if they noticing anything strange. I am already a sleep talker!<br><br><br><br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCatLady Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 So I've had vivid and lucid dreams occasionally for as long as I can remember. I have lots of very disturbing dreams...that's normal for me. I noticed an increase of the dreams and I would wake up twice per night (usually) completely soaked in sweat while I was titrating up on Trileptal. I noticed in your sig that you also take Trileptal, so I thought there might be some sort of correlation. However, I've never heard of Trileptal causing this so it could be purely coincidental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashdene Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 I have been on the trileptal for over three years now and actually decreased it? would that be the same? But never had the problem until now. The dovctor said maybe i should try decrease my prozac, but its never cause this problem before? It scares also cause we got a family history? I don't know, just scared of going to sleep tonight. I'll ask my pdoc about the trileptal thought. Do you think it could be also increased by stress? Had a lot of that lately. Feeling lost in the world and totally confused on whats real and whats not xox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCatLady Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Maybe stress....stress can definitely cause physical symptoms, so I wouldn't doubt it. I just thought maybe Trileptal since we have that in common. It could also possibly be hormonal. Mine just seemed to go away after a couple of months on its own...it definitely was unpleasant though. Maybe you could try decreasing the Prozac to see if it gets better since that's what your doctor is recommending...I don't know. I hope you find a solution soon, I understand how frustrating it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetSoundsFan Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 You know, since getting on meds, I have noticed that I'm having both night sweats and crazy real dreams. On more than one occasion I've had to put serious thought and time into determining what was real and what was a dream. I'm not nearly at the point to where I'm afraid to go to sleep, in fact, quite the contrary...the dreams, for the most part, have been pretty entertaining...except for a couple that is. I'm really sorry to hear you're struggling with just getting a decent night's sleep. I'm a horrible insomniac and getting sleep has been one of the best parts of being on meds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetSoundsFan Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 So now my dreams are getting so vivid, I'm moving about. I had a dream I was using the restroom and I actually physically reached out to flush... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulless_ginger Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Do you think it could be also increased by stress? Had a lot of that lately. Feeling lost in the world and totally confused on whats real and whats not xox Your signature mentions that you see a psychotherapist... Have you mentioned these dreams and their effect to him? I know that I am very susceptible to stress and it definitely has an impact on my life. My therapist emphasizes the relationship between the body and mind, which is very useful for me. I guess, try not to let the fear of having these nightmares actually be the cause of them eventually, ya know? Not saying that's the cause, just saying that at some point you may find yourself being so afraid of what happens when you fall asleep and expect it to happen so that they'll happen even if they weren't going to otherwise.... if that made any sense. May not be applicable and not helpful right now, but still something to think about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
december_brigette Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Hi, when I was un-dx and un-medicated I used to have some horrid night sweats. It didn't always accompany bad dreams but the sweating was bad. I had a husband back then and he didn't want to sleep sleep with me (who would with all that going on???). We would keep the house very cool and I had a ceiling fan. now, medicated I haven't had the sweats so much. vivid dreams Im currently battling. xoxo, db Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderk Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Probably the Seroquel. It's pretty notorious for putting people into nightmare overdrive. Sometimes it's a transient thing. Sometimes persistent. As for the sweats, I'm not so sure. With your ED history have you ever had an endocrinologist referral? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Add another one to the dreamy/sweaty crowd here. heh. And someone who acts out dreams (formally called 'REM sleep behavioral disorder'... once caused me to get up and run into a wall when I was dreaming I was on a city train and had to run to the exit since I almost missed my stop. In reality, there was no city train exit door to the right of my bed, so I woke up about a quarter second before going face-first into a wall. ) Also, add another "blame Seroquel for the bad dreams" here. The one time my pdoc had me on it (I could not sleep for 4 days in a row so he gave me the most powerful, fast-acting safe tranquilizer he knew of for 3 nights), I was able to sleep, albeit only in the REM state with the most vivid dreams ever. My personal experience has found a good option to be clonidine, which is a very old, cheap, and safe blood pressure medication in the "alpha-2 agonist family" of drugs. Chemically, from what I understand, it tells norepinephrine and acetylcholine, two chemicals in your body responsible for both vivid REM dream sleep and for sweating, to STFU and GTFO. (External resource: http://www.rxlist.com/catapres-drug.htm ). I was given clonidine for both hypertension and sleep, and it works very well on both, although the timing and length of its effect is unpredictable (it knocks me out for somewhere between 6 and 18 hours, and that only 1-3 hours after I take it, so things can be made a bit inconvenient). I strongly recommend discussing it (and other drugs in its family) with the pdoc or your GP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catnapper Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Maybe some reaction between meds? When I started Lamictal I was on 450 mg Wellbutrin and after a week I had terrible nightmares, like I haven't had since I was a toddler. The pdoc dialed the Wellbutrin back to 300 mg and I continued to titrate up to my current 200 mg dose of Lamictal with no more nightmares. I would ask your pdoc to review your meds specifically for combos that could cause sleep disturbances. It may be as easy as tweaking the dose of one of them. I hope you get it fixed soon, poor sleep is a big problem in and of itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashdene Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 Hey thanx for all the advice. I went to the doctor a few days ago cause I was getting headaches ect. And discovered my blood pressure was 210/105 and pulse 105! Which is frighteningly high, esp. as I am rather thin and fit. It has been going up and down so my psychiatrist is sending to be tested for a pheochromocytoma which would explain a lot of what has been going on. All though hoping its not that. But interesting about the blood pressure, I got such a fright! My BP was always perfect 120/70!!! xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Hey thanx for all the advice. I went to the doctor a few days ago cause I was getting headaches ect. And discovered my blood pressure was 210/105 and pulse 105! Which is frighteningly high, esp. as I am rather thin and fit. It has been going up and down so my psychiatrist is sending to be tested for a pheochromocytoma which would explain a lot of what has been going on. All though hoping its not that. But interesting about the blood pressure, I got such a fright! My BP was always perfect 120/70!!! xx With a blood pressure that high I'm not surprised that you're being tested for the pheochromocytoma... that is one tumor that can put you on the course to an overmetabolizing bodily kamikaze (for lack of a better term) with high blood pressure, sweating, and all that jazz. Please do make sure you can exclude that before investigating further -- though if it is the case that you have the tumor, then I wish you the best in having it treated, as you will feel better off once it's gone. Otherwise, you might want to look at your existing meds... methylphenidate can't be helping (I also take it and it keeps my daytime blood pressure elevated to about 150/80 before I knock it down at night with clonidine). Lastly, make sure that this 210/105 figure was taken in an accurate and precise manner. I was once erroneously diagnosed with a blood pressure of 190/100 because the measuring device (electronic automatic wrist cuff inflator) did not inflate sufficiently to accommodate wrists as small as mine. Upon my insistence, the doctor then took my blood pressure "manually" and it was found to be 130/80. Someone as thin-framed as you are might encounter the same difficulties with automated equipment... just a heads up so you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crtclms Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 I've been a lucid and vivid dreamer all of my life. I am able to interpret enough of them to at least help me realize what has been on my mind, or at the back of my mind. But Lamictal made it even more so. And I had nightmares frequently before Lamictal, but my nightmares on Lamictal are REALLY FREAKIN' SCARY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pa_canuck Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Please give us an update after your testing...take care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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