Nightmares

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Last Sunday I had a heart attack and now I'm back on medication. Problem is one of the pills side effects are vivid nightmares. I've had them ever since I came home. This has happened before so I know it's the meds. The dreams are so bizarre and real that I just woke up screaming. I find some of them entertaining but most are just hanis. I hate this.
A friend told me to look into lucid dreaming, that's where you can control your dreams. I just read an article in popular science this morning. It was 5am when I read it. I couldn't sleep.

 

[Quang]

Maybe try to watch something pleasant right before dozing off.

 

[jcdeng]

what med is that? I don't know of any heart med that can cause vivid dreams. (just out of curiosity) maybe you need to take ambien along with that med, it might help.

pharmacist by the way

 

[ZANYMASTER]

Most antidepressants do that not saying you're on it but most drugs do cause side effects unfortunately.Like to know the name of it myself.

 

[kenconnect]

Speak to ur dr they may b a different meds he can give in place of the one ur on now.

 

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Metoprolol and Plavix. All drugs have different side effects on different people. I put Dora the explorer on. ha!

 

[rbtwo4]

Metoprolol and Plavix. All drugs have different side effects on different people. I put Dora the explorer on. ha!

lmao THAT gives me nightmares PESADILLAS!

 

[e.muehlbauer]

I can't speak for nightmares caused by drugs, but when i was a kid I used to get fairly frequent nightmares. Aside from waking up scared and miserable, I would feel disturbed even for several days afterwards. I still remember them to this day. I decided to recognize that I was dreaming, and wake myself up the next time I had a nightmare. The next nightmare or 2, I shook myself in the dream until I woke up. That was it- the end of my nightmares. I can't say I've had a true nightmare since I was about 10 or 11.

 

[probe dms]

I can't speak for nightmares caused by drugs, but when i was a kid I used to get fairly frequent nightmares. Aside from waking up scared and miserable, I would feel disturbed even for several days afterwards. I still remember them to this day. I decided to recognize that I was dreaming, and wake myself up the next time I had a nightmare. The next nightmare or 2, I shook myself in the dream until I woke up. That was it- the end of my nightmares. I can't say I've had a true nightmare since I was about 10 or 11.

Wanna try some metoprolol? Get thee ol juices flowing again?

Hey, anyone ever experience a witch ride?

 

[kenconnect]

It is a very common drug.. But with most beta-blockers have the same or very similar side effects. I would talk to ur cardiologist about switching it.

 

[ZANYMASTER]

Isn't Plavix a blood thinner?

 

[motortrendz]

i have vivid memories from when i was a child in the house i grew up in, some were dreams, some memories but its odd bc i remember them like it was yesterday.. the problem is they were very odd creepy dark.. but i cant tell you which were dreams or memories.. lol the house definitly had some spooky sh*t.. havent lived there in 25 yrs.. but i remember them..

 

[Arati]

as for the plavix there really isnt a substitute and dont stop taking that as directed without speaking with your cardiologist either.

im not sure how they are dosing the metoprolol but it comes two ways if you are taking pills lopressor aka metoprolol tartrate more then 1 time a day you maybe able to ask your doctor to change it to metoprolol succinate aka toprol xl thats a long lasting version of the same med that you could take early in the day to try to cut down nightime side effects.

or ambien.

of coarse I am not an MD please dont do anything without speaking with your cardiologist first.

 

[probe dms]

as for the plavix there really isnt a substitute and dont stop taking that as directed without speaking with your cardiologist either.

im not sure how they are dosing the metoprolol but it comes two ways if you are taking pills lopressor aka metoprolol tartrate more then 1 time a day you maybe able to ask your doctor to change it to metoprolol succinate aka toprol xl thats a long lasting version of the same med that you could take early in the day to try to cut down nightime side effects.

or ambien.

of coarse I am not an MD please dont do anything without speaking with your cardiologist first.

Good suggestion! I'll ask next appointment.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

I haven't had to take metoprolol, but I do take Ambien (zolpidem) as needed. Unlike the old fashioned sleeping pills like barbiturates, ambien does not repress dreaming...in fact, I find that it even enhances dreaming. While I really enjoy most of my dreams, I can see how it would aggravate your nightmare problem. I have heard that chloroquine, the anti-malarial drug, has a reputation for intense, vivid nightmares.