Re: Dreams?
- From: <salden9@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:41:57 -0600
I have vivid, colorful dreams. Some real good and pleasant others not so.
I blame my meds. I blame my wife for the bad ones.
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"Alex" <akfromak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't know if its from the meds, MS, or what, but I don't seem to have
any dreams, good or bad, in my sleep, anymore.
Actually, I should qualify that. Deb says that I talk in my sleep,
*quite frequently*, so I must be dreaming, but I don't *remember* doing
so, for a *very long* time now.
The only candidate I would suspect, would be my Neurontin/Gabapentin, as
I'm on a pretty high dose, at 1200mg every eight hours. Although I'm
also on Amitriptyline, the lack of dreams, and/or my recall of them,
predates the start of that prescription. That much I *do* remember.
Hmm, now that I think about it, I've also been taking Effexor XR, for
several years now. However, since I don't remember when this started, I
really can't say if it started with that, or not. I'm tending to think
that it started well after I started on Effexor.
On the other hand, Deb says that, especially recently, over the last
year or so, my talking in my sleep occasionally becomes rather urgent
and/or violent sounding, like I'm "yelling at my troops", as she put it.
Enough so, that on those occasions, she has gone downstairs, to sleep
on the couch.
Based on that, it made me consider that, perhaps, it's related to my
deployments. But then, those were almost 12 years ago now, and, not
every instance of talking in my sleep is of the urgent/violent type.
Additionally, I've had no other symptoms that might be suggestive of
PTSD, and, while the deployments were certainly very stressful, I
wouldn't go as far as saying there was anything 'traumatic' about them.
High gear, heart-pounding stressful at times, for sure, but not traumatic.
So, that leads me back to the beginning, that it must be related to the
meds, or even some weird, off the wall, MS symptom. Either that, or I'm
just plain going nuts. Of course, people who know me well, will say
that I'm already there. ;-)
I have an appointment with my VA neuro next month, so I'll bring it up
then. In the meantime, though, I'm wondering if its just me, or has
anyone else has experienced anything like this?
An inquiring, but obviously forgetful, mind, wants to know!
Alex
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