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A week ago I had a Scleral buckle done on my left eye to repair a retinal detachment. It was done as an outpatient procedure, and I trundled home afterward clutching an assortment of eye drops and a little bottle of percocet.
Anyway, the past few nights I've had really vivid nightmares, of the kind that I don't remember having since high school. For example, last night I dreamed that I was in an abandoned warehouse/office building that was just strewn with body parts. Also, something was chasing me. The night before that I dreamed I was on a tropical resort island, which was nice, except that every atttractive female employee was plotting to kill me.
Has this kind of thing happened to anyone else?
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I always have extremely vivid dreams when taking pain killers. I even have them when taking OTC sleep aids. I hate the way narcotics make me feel and don't really understand the appeal.
I hope you heal quickly and can stop taking them soon.
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I forgot to mention that I went in for a follow up yesterday and the doc said I should move to taking extra-strength Tylenol every four hours and just using the percocet for above-and-beyond kinda stuff. It seems like the worst pain comes in the wee hours of the morning, thought, so we'll see how it goes.
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Not night terrors specifically (unless that's a colloquialism for "bad dreams" where you are) but yeah, seems to be. It started a couple of days after I started taking the drug, and has occurred every night since.
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I would not at all be surprised if the percocet is causing it. Some medications I've been on in the past have caused me to have nightmares or mild hallucinations. I have scars on my knee from one drug-induced nightmare. I dreamed that I was in a bedroom and there was a person pointing a gun at me through a window/hole in the wall, so in my dream I rolled underneath the bed. In real life I rolled right OFF the bed, and my knee landed right on the floor register. OUCHIE!!!
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I have horrible vivid nightmares often. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any pattern.
Like last night I had terrible voices in my head coming from books, and my bathtub was filled with blood. Which is pretty tame compared to most of them. At least sometimes I have really wonderful dreams. *sigh*
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I suppose I should be glad I don't have to deal with either of those things.
I know people can learn to cope with most things, but how do you ever get enough sleep, porcelain girl?
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I have had bad dreams and strange dreams on prescription painkillers before, so I would not be surprised at all that it's causing it.
Nor is it unusual for your worst pain to be at night - I found that usually when I was post-surgical, that I could get by with Advil or Tylenol during the day, but would start needing prescription strength stuff in the evening. As soon as the sun went down, I would start needing more help with the pain.
I think this is physiological, in that our bodies production of endorphins slow down at night, or something like that.
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quote:Originally posted by Juxtapose: I suppose I should be glad I don't have to deal with either of those things.
I know people can learn to cope with most things, but how do you ever get enough sleep, porcelain girl?
I usually don't feel rested at all. When you've spent all night running away from something terrible you wake up pretty exhausted.
But then again this is how I maintain my sultry haven't-slept-for-days image.
I really do have fabulous dreams, too, but it does seem that I have way more nightmares than the average human.
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