Question: Do you other PTSD survivors find yourselves waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat?
I am in the early stages of therapy for PTSD that started over 20 years ago.
I find that for a couple of months now, I have frequently awakened at around 2am in a cold sweat. I go to sleep around 11pm, so I figure I am well into or past a second sleep cycle by then, and have had some dreams.
My hypothesis: My Trazadone makes me sleep too deeply to remember my dreams, and they are pretty bad nightmares, hence the major perspiration.
If I sleep late in the morning, like on weekends, I enter shallow sleep and remember vivid, disturbing nightmares, supporting my hypothesis, I think.
So do you have similar experiences, or it this just me? :think:
I am in the early stages of therapy for PTSD that started over 20 years ago.
I find that for a couple of months now, I have frequently awakened at around 2am in a cold sweat. I go to sleep around 11pm, so I figure I am well into or past a second sleep cycle by then, and have had some dreams.
My hypothesis: My Trazadone makes me sleep too deeply to remember my dreams, and they are pretty bad nightmares, hence the major perspiration.
If I sleep late in the morning, like on weekends, I enter shallow sleep and remember vivid, disturbing nightmares, supporting my hypothesis, I think.
So do you have similar experiences, or it this just me? :think: