I see in some of the posts people talk about having bad nightmares or hallucinations as a result of meds. I didn't know that was a side effect. I've had really horrible night terrors since taking AZT 10 years ago. Recently I was in a study and took Darunavir (among other things). Part of the study was researching if people took more than one protease inhibitor, would it stop the progression to/in the brain. Anyways, I'm piecing together that I think taking the double whammie protease inhibitors made my night terrors much worse. Since then my nightmares are so bad sometimes I try not to fall asleep at night. My husband and I just always thought I'm a "bad sleeper." But--now that i see other people mentioning night mares, I realize that maybe I'm not just a "bad sleeper." Every night my husband has to wake me up because I am screaming and crying and even after I wake up I still feel like I'm in a hallucination--the nightmare is still overwhelmingly real. I always tried to ignore it because my health is so good that I felt too blessed to complain! But--I see some of you mentioned nightmares and I am wondering if anybody was able to handle it without taking sleeping medication? I love to snuggle and fall asleep with my kids all in the bed with us but my husband always gets up and puts the kids back in their beds because we know that at some point he's going to have to wake me up from a nightmare and we don't want to scare the kids. I see that ScotCharles mentioned something helpful about trying to control the outcome of the nightmare or change the direction of it and I'm going to see if I can do that. But--has anybody tried any specific meditations or any other natural remedies? (I'd like to try not to take any more medication than I already am!!)
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