Crazy Dreams

[Stuperman]

I suffered a widow maker 4 years ago. Should’ve died. Didn’t. Been fine since treatment. But every single night I’m experiencing crazy, crazy unpleasant dreams. Anybody else going thru this?

[Doublef]

Hi not every night but have some weird dreams , I believe caused by one my many medications. The worst one being I killed some one and buried them. It was so real I was in fear for a few days, unable to tell anyone,quite a bad experience. A recent one was going back to my first job in 1962.

[Stuperman in reply to Doublef]

Hi, My cardiologist has stopped my statins for a month and is trying something new. He’s no 1 man at a massive hospital but has never come across this before! I’ll post on here and let you know if the new stuff works.

[Tommo1947]

Now that you mention it , yes, I’m on various potions for AF , and have frequent ‘anxiety’ dreams e.g. arriving at airport without passport, or being bullied etc.

I don’t keep my Apple watch on overnight, but imagine the old ticker is racing away, and it’s always a relief to wake up in the real world !

[Stuperman in reply to Tommo1947]

Yup, it’s just a relief to wake up in the mornings but takes me a good hour to get the dreams out of my head

[Seal59]

My husband has weird upsetting dreams since his bypass surgery. He talks in his sleep now and whimpers and lashes out sometimes, so I know they are unpleasant dreams. Sometimes I wake him and right at that time he can remember them, but by morning he doesn’t. It must be the cocktail of medication because he never used to do this.

[Stuperman in reply to Seal59]

Pse see my replies above. Believe what your husband says and be sympathetic. It really is unpleasant. I wish him well

[meadfoot]

I have them every single night often more than one. The details and colours are vivid and lifelike. I have always had dreams and nightmares but they have got much stronger and more frequent while on heart meds. The anxiety of a heart condition doesnt help either. I wake up screaming and my husband has to calm me they are so intense.

[Stuperman in reply to meadfoot]

Pse read my replies above. All I can do is empathise with you. It can be horrible. As for the anxiety, don’t worry about your condition, just do what you’re told and forget it. When you wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and smile;))

[VickyHK72]

since starting my meds (atorvastatin, ramipril & sertraline) a few years ago, my dreams have become very vivid and weird and very very real-feeling when I’m in them. I often dream about being back at school or uni and not being prepared for an exam. I also often dream about being very angry with my Mum (who died in 2014) and sometimes the dreams are really awful and traumatic (I had one where I was being chased and I knew I’d be murdered if they caught me, and another where I killed a cat, I love cats and this deeply upset me) last night I dreamt about an ex colleague I haven’t seen or thought about for 20 years! I definitely put the intensity and content of the dreams down to my meds as I never had dreams of this nature before that.

[Stuperman in reply to VickyHK72]

Oh boy do I resonate with you! Situations with people from my past that just wouldn’t/couldn’t have arisen. I think the powers that be should do some research into all this.