For the sufferers of nightmares

[Cyberluddite]

Just got back, you are correct @gamereign555 . Effexor was developed by Wyeth (later bought by Pfizer) in 1993 as a type of antidepressant called an "SNRI" (or Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor).

SSRIs and SNRIs are somewhat similar, except the latter also blocks the neurotransmitter that causes anxiety attacks.

The patent for Effexor expired in 2006, but not before the FDA finally decided to force a "black box" warning on the labels in 2004 (several years after the FDA first considered the multiple reports of suicidal thoughts and severe health damage). There are some difference between Effexor and Effexor XR, beyond the fillers, which cause respectively separate and opposite side effects.

Apologies for dropping the ball. My folks had told me it was an antipsychotic; I'd forgotten that it took lying to them about "the knives in the kitchen drawer were singing to me", before they finally did something after 6 months of Risperidone no longer working.

Not one of my finer moments, but I got the job done.

 

[frogthroat]

I've cut down on caffeine, completely changed my eating habits, and cut down to almost no alcohol. (I still have a six pack on the weekends.) I still need to improve in the exercise department but literally for about four months of the year my sleep is even more restless and filled with nightmares than usual. I get so tired I have crying fits like a small child would. For the last couple nights in a row I've woken up at around 12:30 to 2 am and just walked around my apartment sobbing and I still couldn't get any kind of quality sleep when I went back to bed. I hear voices when I'm drifting off but I'm sure It's exhaustion as I haven't a psychotic episode since I went no contact with my father back in May. I don't like meds because I don't like being numb. Melatonin sometimes helps but sometimes it doesn't. I do enjoy the YouTube videos of thunderstorm sounds. They seem to help the most.

 

[EveHarrington]

I had to stop the Prazosin!

It was piggybacking with all my other meds to make me a walking zombie!

 

[shatter eyes]

"the knives in the kitchen drawer were singing to me"

This is exactly what happens to me often. I have to use scissors or avoid cutting stuff. The little fruit and steak knives are ok. Its the clever and henkels.. the big shiny ones in drawer that speaks "come on. Get it over."

I am on prasozin and noticed i need to adjust dose often so it works. Sometimes i drop back down to 1mg then back to 3mg.

The 3mg i need to ask doc again cuz this whole past week has been nightmareathon. I gt so burnt and beat in the daytime.

I got sleep meds too and tonight they not working.

I recently got a whitenoise machine and it helps a little by drowning out the noises outside my room that spooks me.

 

[shatter eyes]

I used lavendar oil before and it helped get me into sleep more quicker. The lady told me lavendar is an adaptogen so it can hype u up or chill u out by balancing hormones etc etc.