Nightmares

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Sounds like we have a winner! Go KP, go!

 

[brodes]

Well done Kp, so happy for you ,hpoe you get more of them,in the future.Kind regards Matt from down under. x

 

[millsie3]

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I'm new today. I've had problems with nightmares off and on throughout my life. But at this point 5 yrs of nightly nightmares (a few a week are what I call "screaming nightmares" cause I wake up soaked in sweat, terrified, and screaming, sometimes my throat gets so sore like today). Would you mind sharing the specifics of the medication change you mentioned? I am glad to have found this site, it gives me hope.

 

[Froggie]

I'm new today. I've had problems with nightmares off and on throughout my life. But at this point 5 yrs of nightly nightmares (a few a week are what I call "screaming nightmares" cause I wake up soaked in sweat, terrified, and screaming, sometimes my throat gets so sore like today).

Welcome to the forum millsie3, I too have had bouts with nightmares a bit longer than you. Therapy and meds have helped put a distance and am now able to better deal with the PTSD night version. there are many great articles which truly help demystify PTSD and you will meet many great people, be it carers or sufferers. Take time to visite different posts and take care of yourself through this journey.

 

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I was on Risperdone for awhile and that really helped to dull the nightmares so they didn't effect me emotionally and now I'm on Geodon, and am dreaming normally. I still have nightmares on occasion, and they're really bad, but I can go a week or two in between them now.

 

[Issy123]

Hi every one my name is Matt,new to this website.Just wondering if anyone can help me. I spent 10 years in the army as a medic, i was med discharged in 1999, will nil os service, 2010 was diognosed with P.T.S.D at st john of god [sydney]. Doctors put me on seroquel 50mgs tds and evanza tds. My wife of 14 years left me 5 months ago due to my sleeping habits and mood swings,latley i have not been sleeping , maybe two hours a night. Also having plenty of nightmares.[military related],is it me or the medication or maybe my wife leaving me.At my wits end,any one with any ideas. Cheers. Matt

Hi Matt,
I was looking for anyone in Sydney & came across your post. This PTSD thing sucks bigtime & effects every aspect of our lives but I believe always there is light at the end of the tunnel. Our minds want to heal even tho it is a painful process.
Cheers
Sally

 

[brodes]

Yea thanks sally, haven't really been on site lately, been on Combat ptsd forum site , a bit more me. Yes and ptsd sucks & wish it would just go & bury it self some times. Cheers Matt:)

 

[Bordo66]

Sleeping too much?

Sounds awefully familiar!

 

[KP the nut]

Ok, I had to share this. How could my nightmare last night be about Yoghurt, I mean WTF.

I was shopping with H, when we arrived at the checkout the yoghurt had split and I was dispatched to get another pack. The supermarket was enormous, I couldn't find my way, I was worried we were holding up the queue. I eventually came back to find our trolley had been off loaded. I was trying to pay for the yoghurt and a man kept invading my personal space and shouting at me. He was really really tall and I kept pushing him away saying this was my space and he was too close. In the end I opened my mouth and screamed at him, but I really screamed and woke everyone up :oops::notworthy::eek::(

My dreams all start out inoccuous and end with me lost, unsafe or in mortal danger. Yuck hate it

 

[Ron]

Welcome Matt! Sorry, I don't know much about nightmares.Have you seen a pychiatrist?

 

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Oh, KP, that sounds awful. Isn't it amazing how mundane and intense our nightmares can be sometimes? I'm sorry you had such a terrible scare. I had one the other night where I knew I was dreaming and I was trying to scream out loud to wake myself up but I couldn't.

 

[angel2write]

Last night it was bugs stuck in my hair. The nightmares are so intense and so real sometimes I can't, even when I'm awake, understand it's not really happening. The bugs were really big, as big as my hand, and were digging around in my scalp and killing all my hair. I also get repetitive nightmares that all my teeth are falling out. I'm always amazed to wake up and find I still have teeth!