I still take it or I will never fall asleep. The nightmares are repetitive and go all night then haunt me the next day. Is there anyone else with this issue? It sucks because otherwise it helps me...
mike
Question posted by mjpresson on 27 Aug 2013
Last updated on 7 January 2023 by Dailee
I still take it or I will never fall asleep. The nightmares are repetitive and go all night then haunt me the next day. Is there anyone else with this issue? It sucks because otherwise it helps me...
mike
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I just had continuous dreams and was therefore not achieving REM sleep so started taking clomipromine, which was very helpful and totally effective.
This information is from Drugs.com Side Effects and the Patient Information Sheet:
"Common (1% to 10% of users): Abnormal dreams, nightmares"
I know this was posted a really long time ago but yes I too get really creepy almost demonic dreams due to seroquel... I want so badly to get off of this drug. I can't sleep with anything else either.
The answer is absolutely! I have been taking seriously for two years now.It’s been helping with my sleep but the last six months my dreams are getting worse.They seem so realistic sometimes it’s scary,but if I don’t take it I don’t sleep at all. My dose is 100mg my mouth stay so dry at night too,does anyone else dream of dead family members ?
How relieved I am to read your postings!! I just woke from an extremely long nightmare, the likes of which I've never had before in my life! A frantic non-stop series of seemingly hundreds of shocking encounters and irretrievable losses - which has left me quaking to the core and feeling super derealized - insane - and this the day AFTER QUITTING Seroquel following a week of 12.5m (half a tiny pill) a night. There's been no other change in my meds that could explain this absolutely awful 2+-hour dream except *withdrawal* from Seroquel - as I didn't have nightmares when I was taking it - just sleep that was too long and too deep - dreamless for 10 to 12 hours! I wonder if this was all the suppressed REM sleep that "burst the dam" when I stopped this med?
But NEVER, EVER AGAIN! I'm lucky that I've been prescribed xanax to help me calm down.
Some generic brands of Seroquel (Quetiapine) cause me to have nightmares, but others do not. It’s truly frustrating that a pharmacy (CVS in the past and Kaiser now) keep changing their brands. It causes me to have to waste money on what I cannot take.
I have been on seroquel for 4 years. I started at 50mg, and now I take 200mg per night. The nightmares are insane, I am 32 years old and I constantly have nightmares about my childhood guinea pigs when I was 8... and not being able to properly take care of them. My house growing up suddenly covered in spiders, etc. It's every night and idk why, thankfully it helps me sleep but these dreams are nuts and so realistic I often have to distinguish reality from dreamland.
Yes I do they usually have to do with murder (committed by me) or family abandonment... they are so bad I'm going to see if they have something different that will still help me sleep
I can relate to pretty much everyone's input here but whats really weird is that i've been taking Seroquel for many years and i've been getting very scary nightmares for the last month.Last night i dreamed that someone was pointing a gun at me thru my window and i had a very hard time trying to wake up.The screaming is what woke me so now i'm scared to take it now because of the vivid nightmares that i remember the next day.It used to be that i would dream but i woudn't remember them the next day.I decided to take to take half of a dose this evening to see if that will work but i read that low doses of this medication makes the nightmares worse so i've been trying to decrease my dosage with my Dr's assistance so i can get off of these because of the nightmares so it seems as though i'm locked in a very disturbing cycle here.I started taking Seroquel because i could not sleep at all and i would stay up all night long so the medication worked ...
for this problem for a long time but now that i want to get off of this medication i'm starting to have these disturbing problems.tramadol doesn't put me to sleep even at high doses so i have to see my doctor again as quickly as possible..
I am on 200mg seroquel per night. Every night I have vivid dreams about traumatizing childhood situations, various family members, my house growing up, etc. all combined in various ways... it's all very weird and uncomfortable but I can recognize dreams from reality... the benefits outweigh the negatives for me because I recognize dreams aren't real life unlike a lot of people who take this medication,
These are listed as potential side effects that affect 10% or less of patients:
"Common (1% to 10% of users): Abnormal dreams, insomnia, nightmares"
Yes. I had constant nightmares. Often the same one also.
Yes, dreams that last far longer than any I have ever experienced when not taking it. And they seem to occur regardless of what time I have taken it during the day.
Since I started taking Seroquel I have been having disturbing vivid dreams. I may have had one of two when not in Seroquel but I have been having them quite often now.
If I don't take it I wake up depressed and anxious. It helps me sleep
I began taking it for bipolar disorder and manic depression. I started taking 50mg at night as I also have insomnia for the first thee nights and go up 50mg every 3 days until I got to 300mg a day. I was fine and sleeping great. Until the 1st night I had to take 300mg. That was last night. And I wish I could describe in better words how terrifying my might was. It was like a real dream. My mind believes these events actually happened. The nightmares were all horrible. And all day I have been jumpy, anxious and scared. Everything just felt so real. I didn't realize they were dreams until I said to my roomies the next day "What the hell happened last night?" And they looked at me like I was crazy. They said nothing happened which put me in a full blown panic attack. It's all I have thought about all day. It just baffles me that it was all a dream. So i have a doc appt tomorrow.
seroquel, bipolar disorder, nightmares
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