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Amitriptyline nightmares & muscle spazz
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<blockquote data-quote="Kristina_Rayne" data-source="post: 213763" data-attributes="member: 6354"><p><span style="color: darkred">Hey guys I'm new here.</span></p><p><span style="color: darkred">I was only on Amitriptyline for a month for migraines, increasing the dosage by 10mgs at a time until I got to 50mgs and then I started having trippy and scary nightmares about a week after I got to that dose. I couldn't stand the dreams after about a week they got so bad that I took myself off cold turkey.</span></p><p><span style="color: #8b0000">I was able to move around freely during these dreams but everything around me would run together like waterpaints, in one of them I sat up at the side of my bed looking into the mirror on my dresser and I had a black hole for a face, I would hear voices that I didn't recognize whispering behind my back. I woke up from the mirror dream to find myself sitting up looking at my mirror when my eyes opened and my face was normal.</span></p><p><span style="color: darkred">The dreams slowly decreased in fequency and intensity as the medication got out of my system when I quit. I've been off it for many months now but throughout these months I've been having episodes of sleep paralysis where it will feel like I'm having brain hemmorages and strokes and things like that. It will feel so real and I can't move, can't speak, but my eyes and mouth will be wide open. I wake up and my body is painfully tense when I sit up, but my eyelids will start to close 5 seconds later to make me go back to sleep because it thinks I'm still dreaming. I still have bad nightmares about violence and gore (even if I haven't seen any scary movies or anything like that recently) but the surroundings in the dreams don't run together anymore.</span></p><p><span style="color: #8b0000">My father seems to think I have a vitamin D deficiancy and that's why I've been having these symtoms. What I find weird is, I never had sleep paralysis or violent/gorey dreams before I got on the Amitriptyline, and they never told me one of the side effects is psychosis and nightmares.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kristina_Rayne, post: 213763, member: 6354"] [COLOR=darkred]Hey guys I'm new here.[/COLOR] [COLOR=darkred]I was only on Amitriptyline for a month for migraines, increasing the dosage by 10mgs at a time until I got to 50mgs and then I started having trippy and scary nightmares about a week after I got to that dose. I couldn't stand the dreams after about a week they got so bad that I took myself off cold turkey.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#8b0000]I was able to move around freely during these dreams but everything around me would run together like waterpaints, in one of them I sat up at the side of my bed looking into the mirror on my dresser and I had a black hole for a face, I would hear voices that I didn't recognize whispering behind my back. I woke up from the mirror dream to find myself sitting up looking at my mirror when my eyes opened and my face was normal.[/COLOR] [COLOR=darkred]The dreams slowly decreased in fequency and intensity as the medication got out of my system when I quit. I've been off it for many months now but throughout these months I've been having episodes of sleep paralysis where it will feel like I'm having brain hemmorages and strokes and things like that. It will feel so real and I can't move, can't speak, but my eyes and mouth will be wide open. I wake up and my body is painfully tense when I sit up, but my eyelids will start to close 5 seconds later to make me go back to sleep because it thinks I'm still dreaming. I still have bad nightmares about violence and gore (even if I haven't seen any scary movies or anything like that recently) but the surroundings in the dreams don't run together anymore.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#8b0000]My father seems to think I have a vitamin D deficiancy and that's why I've been having these symtoms. What I find weird is, I never had sleep paralysis or violent/gorey dreams before I got on the Amitriptyline, and they never told me one of the side effects is psychosis and nightmares.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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