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Re: How to stop vivid dearming / nightmares?

Posted by King Vultan on January 10, 2005, at 23:10:21

In reply to How to stop vivid dearming / nightmares?, posted by Don_Bristol on January 10, 2005, at 15:04:09

> My girlfriend has very vivid dreams. And sometimes these vivid dreams are equally vivid nightmares.
>
> She can wake up after 9 or 10 hours sleep feeling very exhausted and not rested.
>
> She currently takes 20 mg Lexapro and has done so for about two years. However she has always had the dreaming/nightmares even when she was not taking any meds.
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> Is there anything she can take to reduce the dreaming? Or at least to reduce how much of them is remembered?
>
> (By contrast I am the other extreme and I almost never know what I have dreamed and I would say I have not dreamed anything.)
>
> Thank you.


FWIW, Nardil had the greatest tendency to suppress REM sleep of any of the 10+ drugs I've been on--I really do not recall dreaming at all while on it. I paid a price when withdrawing from it, however, as I suffered REM rebound syndrome, a fairly nasty and unpleasant side effect.

Parnate, OTOH, has not greatly decreased my ability to dream, even at 60 mg/day. The small dose of Risperdal I have recently added to it has increased my dreaming somewhat more also. In general, however, MAOIs seem to suppress REM sleep.

Todd


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