Re: Elavil side effects

[Guest guest]

Some sleeping medications do cause very vivid dreams. Some dreams can be

recalled while others cannot. When my doctor first prescribed Ambien, she

advised that many of her patients as a side effect complained over very vivid

dreams, many nightmares. One patient was traumatized because she kept dreaming

of blood everywhere. Lunesta gives me very vivid dreams and sometimes bad ones,

but I have been on it for several years now, and it helps me be able to sleep.

Tina Schmidt <spydre_74@...> wrote: I started

taking Elavil last week, Thursday I think. Since then I've been having trouble

sleeping (last night was the worst - 3 hours of sleep), and having really vivid

dreams (my husband is thrilled as many of them have been sex dreams, so he

actually saw some this weekend). I can't swear that the trouble sleeping is

from the Elavil though - I generally have to take a sleeping pill. I had

stopped taking it while my other meds were making me sleepy, so that I wasn't

over-sedated in the morning. Obviously, I have to go back to it. Has anyone

else had the vivid dream thing? Also, it seems to be affecting some other

things - I kept dropping stuff, being a real klutz last night, and it seems to

be affecting my blood sugar - keeping it lower than it normall would be. Has

anyone else noticed any of these side effects from Elavil? Thanks.

Tina

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[Guest guest]

The sleeping medication I take is Trazedone - I'm quite used to it, but it has

never caused the dreaming before.

As far as the elavil, I looked it up, and was somewhat worried - I noticed

this paragraph:

Body as a Whole: Lupus-like syndrome (migratory arthritis, positive ANA and

rheumatoid factor).

Granted, I've already had these tests done (at least the ANA) a couple of

weeks ago - before starting the Elavil, but I go to a new doc and six weeks, and

if I start showing symptoms of lupus, or she repeats the blood test and we get a

false positive, well then, we go down a whole different road.

Tina

stephanie <stephieann2@...> wrote:

Some sleeping medications do cause very vivid dreams. Some dreams can

be recalled while others cannot. When my doctor first prescribed Ambien, she

advised that many of her patients as a side effect complained over very vivid

dreams, many nightmares. One patient was traumatized because she kept dreaming

of blood everywhere. Lunesta gives me very vivid dreams and sometimes bad ones,

but I have been on it for several years now, and it helps me be able to sleep.

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