I struggle to tell what's real

[Tim_Holgate]

I've been having really bad nightmares recently and in the last few days I have struggled to tell what's real sometimes, until I get reminded where I am. I don't know if it's the pain meds or what but does anyone else have this problem?

 

[wishball]

I've been having really bad nightmares recently and in the last few days I have struggled to tell w...

 

[wishball]

I would wake up at times not knowing where I was or who I was, but it fades and I snap out of it.

 

[Deleted member 40995]

Yes, I’ve had this happen Tim. Have had nightmares and woken up with re-experiencing, have woken up thinking I’m still there, have woken and wondered what’s going on :/ lots of grounding is what I do when it happens, helps if there is someone around who can ground you or anyone you can call

 

[Justmehere]

It may be a mix of the pain meds and a reaction to the recent trauma and past trauma. After I had just one surgery, oh shiesh, my head was a mess, especially when I was drugged up. My dreams were super vivid and I had to check and make sure they were not real every morning. Keep grounding and telling your health care providers.

 

[desiderata310]

Yes. It was especially bad this past summer when I was put on medication that I had a nasty reaction to. I would have these nightmares that were so vivid that I would either be dreaming that things were happening in my bedroom (like the time I saw my dead mother crawling out of my bedroom window-except she was... a monster?) and the time I saw my ex standing in the doorway.
Then there were nightmares where I couldn't figure out where I was.
And the morning when I woke up and started hallucinating.

Definitely talk to the doctors.

 

[Tim_Holgate]

The doctors don't know whats causing it, but they have there guesses on reactions to meds and cranial bruising. Only started hallucinating when I was on the max dose of mrphine possible

 

[desiderata310]

I don't know what cocktail you are on but mine was from an anti-nausea medication

 

[Tim_Holgate]

I don't know what cocktail you are on but mine was from an anti-nausea medication

Multiple pain meds (about five of them, morphine, codeine, cocodemol and I cant remember the rest), coagulants, anticoagulants and other transfusion drugs, and then paroxetine as well

 

[Freida]

I'm gonna guess that its the pain meds, but I've had that happen even without the meds. Sometimes I get so deep into a dream it takes me a bit to figure out I'm back to reality. And my sister had a horrific reaction to morphine after surgery. She started hallucinating and got really paranoid - and that was when she was awake.;..

 

[Gs172003]

Multiple pain meds (about five of them, morphine, codeine, cocodemol and I cant remember the rest),...

Geez O' Pete!

 

[Tim_Holgate]

I think waking up in hospital doesnt help the case either