[caitlyn47]

Hi,

I have had vivid technicolor dreams all my life. Maybe one or two a month but recently in the past 2 years I have had vivid long lasting dreams every night. I have an inner ear disorder and extreme vertigo and take Klonopin daily. I am also in the middle of a nasty work injury case, extremely anxious and depressed and am now taking Cymbalta. I am also recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and take two types of insulin. I am 56 and take many more drugs for medical reasons. I tried Ambien and I still had bad dreams. Anything with benedryl in it makes the dreams worse. I have also tried teas for sleeping.
My dreams include everyone I have ever known both good and bad. Every job and home I have ever lived in and lots of animals, all friendly to me. Even if I get up after a rough dream and walk around for a few minutes to completely wake up I can go back to sleep and the same dream will start again but in another spot.
Can anyone suggest a sleeping pill with minimal side effects that might help?

[Lexi232]

ive heard melitonin (sp?) is a natural sleep aid.
with cymbalta tho, it can have affects on ones dreams. i had lucid dreams allnight long when i first started on it. then after a while it turned into dreams that would collect over the years and end up having a whole dream world area. i wasnt lucid in these, but it was more like at night i would have a change in my reality.. the dream world had its own reality which i thought the things i happened in the daytime were dreams, and then when i woke up, i would be in this reality (where everyone else is). long story short- cymbalta can play a big part in the dreams a person has.
have they tried the time released ambiene?
ambiene was the only one i didnt have side effects from.
the sleeping meds i know of are lunesta, trazadon(when i was a kid i had no side effects but when i reached my teen years i felt drugged hours after waking up), ambiene, benedryl, and im currently on seroquel for sleep. i rarely have dreams unless im napping later on in the day once the seroquel has gotten out of my system.

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[Thunder Bow]

Medications can cause this. Talk to your doctor about getting off of them.