Once again I woke up in the middle of the night because of a nightmare (a kind of sleep paralysis).
It’s annoying but i refuse to be scared of going to bed.
I think it’s because of a change in meds. My pdoc allowed me to skip my small dose of olanzapine (2.5 mg).
Tonight i have to take it anyway, i try again tomorrow.
I get nightmares whenever I lower my ap dosage.
Yeah, perhaps i have to accept it for a period.
Perhaps if i go to sleep and expect a nightmare i would be more ready for it and less annoyed and sleepless when it happens
I have Nightmare Disorder. I suffer from chronic, vivid, violent nightmares. They tend to traumatize me sometimes. I’ve had them since I was a young child. I take Prazosin for it currently, and it works well.
I have heard of medications causing nightmares before. Perhaps discuss with Pdoc?
I’ve gotten sleep paralysis since about 2010. I have this dream that I want to wake but have to try really hard to wake up. Used to happen more often it’s gotten more rare.
are you off antipsychotic meds?
Im only on 2.5 mg olanzapine @Three and since my prolactin is high and causing a mild sexual dysfunction my pdcoc suggested that i stop taking it
Yes @ZombiePupper i think it’s the medicine and i will talk with my pdoc about it. I have just started opioid replacement therapy with a drug called suboxone - i hope it’s that, today im reducing dose as planned
Are you schizophrenic? schizoafective?
if so you can’t come off meds
I’m schizotypal and besides my new medicine (opioid) i take max dose of a MAO-I antidepressant (isocarboxide / marplan).
Falling asleep is the only problem i get if i skip the Olanzapine 2.5 mg as planned. But in that case i rather take 15 mg of Mirtazapine to fall asleep.
I just returned from the rehab clinic. The doc there advised me not to skip Olanzapine right now, but wait until we have found the right dosage of my new med (Suboxone / Buprenorphine)
I have known quite a lot with SZ that didn’t take AP and managed anyway
I used to get sleep paralysis a lot. Someone told me to stop sleeping on my back, and it sounded weird, but it helped.
Practicing lucid dreaming also helped.
Coming off the med’s can be tricky. Be careful, whatever you decide to do.
What an odd advice @Pikasaur 
- but sometimes the simpler the better. Occasionally i have lucid dreams and love it.
I will @crimby, at such low dose olanzapine is more like a heavy antihistamine than antipsychotic and the only side effect is mild sexual dysfunction. I don’t mind taking it, im not one of those who think that AP’s are evil, if you know what i mean.
@Pikasaur got point. Sleeping on right side helps.
Zotepine would give me sleep paralysis. It can happen due to day time stress as well.