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AN Community => AN Community => Topic started by: tenai98 on April 16, 2009, 09:55:33 pm
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ANyone else sufferr from nightmares post surgery???? No problems falling asleep but then I wak with a start from toture chamber. Last nght it was a school janitor along with Jerry Lee Lewis wantin to operate on me and tonight the doc wanted a compllete lobotomy. Damn scarry...Now I dont want to sleep which I know I need. Maybe its the amount of food I ingest b4 bed...Been really hungry and eating alot. Only one more (.5 tablet) of decadrom in morning...I hope it all settles down
JO ;D
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Oh NO! That is scary! I found that I couldn't eat sugar before bed (I looooove my ice cream!). Its probably the decadron, I hope the nightmares subside after that gets out of your system! Sweet dreams tonight for you!
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Jo
I haven't had surgery yet. But back in Jan when I was in the hospital with what they thought was a brain bleed and headaches from hell I had one night like that. Everytime I closed my eyes I swear the demons where after me. It was so bad that I would lay there and say the lord's prayer and tell them to go get someone else and leave me alone. My husband thought it was funny and the nurse said it was all the drugs in me. I was so full of morphine at that time it would make you believe anything. I do know that I never want to go thru that again. It's no fun.
Patty
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Jo,
I'm not sleeping much, but when I do, I have had a few memories of strange occurrences in recent thought patterns. I have just a few more days of decadron, too, so let's both hope for improvement in sleep and thoughts.
I am hoping the decadron will do its job and make this facial/eye issue temporary as suggested by the surgeons.
Good luck.
Nancy
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Hi Jo,
I had a couple of bad nights when I was on the steroids - bad nightmares and would wake up with my hair all wet which is nice... must have been a good nightmare!
Not having them now that I'm off the roids.
Cheers
JB
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Oh, yes, Jo! I had very bad decadron-induced nightmares, like horrible things happening to my kids, kind of nightmares. Had other issues as well with that stuff - was so glad to get off. But, I know it was a necessary evil, that did its job, but I was quite disturbed while on it :-[
You do sound like you're doing really well otherwise, though - I'm so glad!
Cindy
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No nightmares with the steroids here, but then I didn't sleep all that much, day or night ;D
I agree with the others though, that it is likely caused by the meds. The steroids can take a few days to be out of your system even after you stop taking them, so keep one eye open at night for that janitor! ;)
Ernie
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I had HORRIBLE nightmares - I even SLAPPED Dave when he was trying to calm me out of one!! :o
K
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I remember having very strange dreams when I finally started sleeping. I wasn't on any drugs stronger than Excedrin, but I think a lack of sleep caused the change from happy dreams to quirky ones. They went away as I settled into regular sleep patterns.
Priscilla
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Jo,
The nightmares are most likely due to the 'roids. I had them too while in the hospital post surgery.
Regards,
Rob
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I can't say that I've ever had a nightmare, but Jenni tells me that even now (almost a year later) that I have these pretty violent fits at night like I am having a nightmare, but I never remember having one..
Brian
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Hi Jo,
Sorry your having nightmares.
Scarlett is remembering her dreams now, where she didn't before, and when she does it usually is accompanied with a major headache. Yesterday at the Brunch, at Maxwell's in MA., she mentioned it to Bob (Stoneaxe) and Joe (Joe Meehan) and they seem to have dream issues also. Hopefully, yours will stop being the scary kind.
Hope your follow-up went well today,
Rich & Scarlett
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As Rick mentioned, I've been having very vivid dreams...not nightmares...oftentimes very pleasant. I never used to remember my dreams. I think it might be related to the topomax I'm on for headaches. The timing seems to correlate.
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I've always had absolutely spectacular and vivid dreams.
I had one last night that is too disturbing to talk about, yet sophisticated enough to be written into a Hollywood thriller movie script.
Here is an example of one that I had when I was in the process of becoming ill with the AN and had yet to be diagnosed:
I am in a bookstore occupying the top floor of a high rise building, overlooking a spectacular panoramic cityscape bathed in the radiant red and orange light of sunset. As I'm standing before a window marveling at the awesome beauty and magnitude of the scene I'm also deeply impressed with the progress of civilization. It then occurs to me that all is not well in this seeming paradise and that there are problems just as enormous and deadly as the sweeping panorama before me is beautiful. I become filled with a subtle dread. Turning away from the window there is a man, apparently a cashier or clerk, sitting behind a counter. I asked him a simple question that, while outwardly couldn't be more vague and bare boned, was, in my mind, concerning not only the condition of humanity but also the state of my personal health, as I was in the process of becoming ill with a brain tumor at that time. I asked him, "Are we all right?" Without missing a beat he answered flatly and in a very clipped and matter-of-fact manner, "No".
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I tried. Sorry I opened my mouth....
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Crazycat ur a hooy
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Well at least that got a response!
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LOL...that was good...very apt analogy.....it's that damn stinking little black cloud on the horizon!