Night terrors and MiniPress

[NicW]

Hi - I'm a newbie; just stumbled on myptsd.com.

I'm also new to addressing my mental illness. This may have been addressed here before, but my prescriber recommended a very common anti-hypertensive called MiniPress which has the happy side benefit of reducing night terrors. The impact for me was very quick, and my nightmares are down to 3 or 4 per month, a drastic reduction from 5/week.

Hope this helps someone.

 

[Missycat]

Welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing this. I will look it up, i have suffered with nightmares and night terrors for years and whilst i do have periods of them improving they often come along and knock me for six.
I hope you find the forum helpful.
All the best on your recovery journey.

 

[Friday]

Just as a word to the wise... Minipress = prazosin

(International Forum, brand names differ rather frequently)

 

[NicW]

Ahhh... thanks for the tip. I work with clients all over the world and am usually more culturally sensitive than that. (Learned early that when working with people from China, it doesn't work to say things like "...let me noodle that..."

Much appreciated.