One of my meds given to me for TD symptoms is making me have strange vivid and lucid dreams.
Some of them are nightmarish but all of them are vivid and bizarre
It’s getting to the point where I’m afraid to go to bed.
I really don’t want to come off of the Austedo as it’s helping quell down my TD symptoms
WTF should I do?
I know that there are certain meds one can take to help combat nightmares but I really don’t want to take more meds.
I’m already taking enough meds as is.
You could try another TD medication maybe?
There are really only two big players in the TD market
Austedo and Ingrezza
I really don’t want to start a new drug, there are too many unknowns with that
Other than these vivid dreams I’m tolerating the med well
Hopefully I’ll get used to it
I would just try to relax and sleep anyway. I wake up several times at night out of vivid dreams. I just fall back asleep and that is all.
Yeah my dreams are wild!
Something out of Alice in Wonderland
It is possible that these vivid dreams might fade after you have been on the TD med awhile.
Yes I’m hoping @Vinegar
I’ll stick it out
Thanks
I got them too,but don’t know which med causes it…
IMO you will get used to it. I have had vivid dreams for 9 years on invega
I um had the same thing on Seroquel. Mine were hypnagogic, and the line between when I fall asleep and when I am dreaming would blur as the hallucinations became stronger and stronger the closer I came to unconsciousness. I also got frequent sleep paralysis accompanied by hallucinations while in and out of actual dreams. When I changed APs this all stopped.
I think you just have to decide which is worse. Honestly, there are worse side effects. I’d rather be scared of my dreams than gain weight for example. Hell if you told me I could be on Zyprexa, thin as a stick with no chance at diabetes, and all I had to do was run from Freddy Krueger or Pinhead or fall into bottomless pits or whatever every night, I’d probably just deal with the nightmares lol.
I do still have terrible nightmares but maybe one day out of the month, instead of every night, and none of that hypnagogic stuff. If it were me I would stay on it awhile to see if the side effect gets less noticeable over time? That happens sometimes. I tried that with Seroquel but it stayed. I don’t mean to make light of nightmares, they affect different folks differently, but I’m a horror movie fan thrill junkie so I shrug most of them off and even the scariest ones give me a weird thrill after waking up the next morning.
Yeah I actually enjoyed the dream I had two days ago
I’ll stick with the Austedo
Thanks