Nightmares
#1
Posted 23 May 2012 - 02:47 PM
#3
Posted 23 May 2012 - 04:18 PM
I also had vivid nightmares/dreams while I was withdrawing. I would wake up afraid and tell my husband about the dreams sometimes, Then later in the day the dreams would come back to haunt me again while I was fully awake and I would relive the dream. I've noticed in the last week , when I wake-up I know I had a crazy dream but I can't remember it long enough to tell me husband about it. I can't even remember any of the dreams I had that would come back and haunt me throughout the day anymore. Believe me I'm glad that craziness has stopped and I don't remember any of my dreams long enough to tell my husband about them. I am now on day 12 w/o cymbalta after tapering down from 90mg during the past month. I took cymbalta for 4 years for Fibromyalgia and just got sicker every year. Turns out I Had Seratonin Syndrome and didn't know it. I want to kick myself in the butt. I'm a retired psychiatric nurse(30yrs experience) and didn't know about Seratonin Syndrome. I was forced into retirement in 1996 due To Fibro and osteoarthritis. OH well, my drs didn't recognize it either . I was sent from . one specialist to the other for the past 4years and they couln't find out what was wrong with me. They would all say"You know you have Fibromyalgia." I always told them "Yeah, but this is different." Of course They just thought I was CRAZY. I am soooooo THANKFUL for this site.
Good luck Everybody with your individual Recoveries. May God Bless you and keep you safe.
#4
Posted 23 May 2012 - 06:13 PM
#5
Posted 24 May 2012 - 10:45 AM
#7
Posted 24 May 2012 - 11:22 AM
I am on day 8 of cold turkey withdrawal. (not by choice, the new insurance company won't fill the prescription.) I've been on cymbalta (120 mg)for over 4 years.
I have run the gambit of raging to crying to being suicidal. Yesterday I even hallucinated.
The headaches, pain and emotional pain I am in is pure hell!
#8
Posted 24 May 2012 - 12:21 PM
And the nausea hit me a little while ago. This is just nasty medicine! How can they get away with doing this to people?
#9
Posted 24 May 2012 - 12:55 PM
#10
Posted 25 May 2012 - 12:25 PM
#12
Posted 06 June 2012 - 10:38 AM
I'll be honest, I'm a Christian and I had some long talks with God about the dreams because they were so disturbing. Sure enough, something very good has come from this experience for me. When I wake up (and sometimes while I'm still dreaming!), I say, "That is NOT true, it is NOT real, I deny those ideas and I will not carry them with me from this point forward." The dreams move away from me as far as the east is from the west. The most amazing thing is that this "attitude/habit" has now carried over into my waking hours, and I find myself MUCH stronger when negative thoughts attempt to find purchase in my mind. I tell them the same thing.
God is good.
#14
Posted 08 June 2012 - 09:03 AM
Are you taking anything to help you sleep?
I started the sleeping time tea extra. This seems to help keep you from waking up during the night..
I hate the insomnia. I have had this ever since I went on C.
Be good to yourself. Your body is stressing going off this stuff. Hang in there. Do something that makes you happy.
#15
Posted 08 June 2012 - 02:01 PM
Have a 3 day long weekend here so am hoping to sleep a bit during the day.
#16
Posted 11 June 2012 - 10:01 AM
good luck everyone. there IS an end in sight. stay strong!
#17
Posted 11 June 2012 - 11:26 AM
I hope your insomnia is slowly fading away as you march on your journey to FREEDOM!! Sometimes the sleep tea helps and sometimes NOT.
I have ambien that I am saving up to help with the withdrawals symptoms. Don't you think the emotional ups and downs are from not getting any sleep.
I didn't have sleep for 3 days. I was mad and I slammed the front door and broke the lock. I couldn't believe I had this in me at all. My husband didn't say anything at all but went to home depot and got a new lock. It took him 4 hours or more to put a new lock on. I knew he was so mad at me, but he didn't say a thing. He knew it wasn't me at all. I couldn't believe it was ME either.
Cymbalta is soooooooo nasty. This was just dropping from 90 to 60mg.
How are you doing today?
#19
Posted 14 June 2012 - 08:09 AM
#20
Posted 15 June 2012 - 12:23 AM
I think the key is definitely getting some sleep to be able to handle all the withdrawal symptoms.
I know for me, if I can't sleep it is because the $%&I cymbalta. I usually will cave and take a motrin PM with a muscle relaxer, but I will still be up and down all night.
Keep focusing ahead to know that it is the cymbalta making you not sleep and angry. Try to have some calm time or go take a walk to get that serotonin kicking in.
It is so hard when sleep just not come naturally. I am holding out the big guns of ambien to take when I really do need the rest for the next day. Coming off of ambien, I know I don't get sleep for 2 days, but at least I know what the drug affects are going to be and I can try to exhaust myself.
Here I am at 1:21am.. but I know today I drank too much caffeine.
#21
Posted 15 June 2012 - 08:17 PM
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