Nightmares
No where is it mentioned anywhere that I’ve
found, so I have to ask: did anyone suffer nightmares
the first few days on medication? <br
prone to evil dreams and nightmares. I am more used to
sleeping straight through the night. But last night, I had
the most horrendous nightmares–terribly vivid dreams
where I was physically violent to the extent that I
woke in sweats with the long muscles in my legs and
arms aching. Yet, my husband says I really didn’t move
a muscle. Does that go with this medication also?
January 11th, 2004 at 8:53 am
Good morning. I’m so glad you mentioned your
nightmares because I seem to be having the same problem–not
necessarily nightmares but vivid and wild dreams. I’m on
glucophage. You didn’t say what medicine you are taking. I
went to the doctor yesterday and I should have asked
him about this possible side effect.<br
January 12th, 2004 at 10:13 am
Now I am wondering. About a year ago I started
having really vivid dreams (not necessarily bad, just
vivid), after a lifetime of rarely having any dreams I
really remembered the next morning. I attributed it to
the Prozac which I went on about the time the dreams
started, but I also had an increase in my glucophage about
the same time. -Dona
January 13th, 2004 at 12:04 pm
I am wondering, too. Mine are very vivid dreams
and they just started three months ago when I started
taking glucophage. I’m on 2000 mgs. a day. So, perhaps,
since three of us are reporting this situation, perhaps
it truly is a side effect. Keene
January 14th, 2004 at 1:24 pm
Sorry, I didn’t mention it…I just this week
started Glucophage–today, four down, ninety-six to go
out of one hundred. I take only one 500 mg pill in
the morning. <br
effect that the manufacturers’ don’t know
about–extremely vivid dreams. The pharmacist did mention all the
others I’ve had so far as possible. Too, bad he told me
after the fact of experiencing them.<br
hypothyroid and take daily medication for that–once in the
morning fasting, thirty minutes before food. And by the
second day, I realized there was going to be a problem
here because those are also the instructions for me
taking the glucophage–once in the morning fasting,
thirty minutes before food. So which was I to take
first, or can I take them together without worry of them
interacting? He said I could take them together.<br
this part is strange too, I spent most of yesterday,
after the nightmares, inexplicably angry. It is the
sort of anger I associate with my thyroid being
off–you know, upset all out of proportion to situations,
snapping people’s heads off for happening to be present in
the same room with me. I’m not like that normally,
and when I do have a bad day, I can usually control
it. <br
felt much better when I awoke at 5 p.m., but it sort
of shot my entire day and I had trouble getting to
sleep last night. This is not good.
January 15th, 2004 at 3:00 pm
I take synthroid for my low thyroid also. I am
surprised you are supposed to take your glucophage on an
empty stomach. I was told to take it with food in order
to reduce the side effects. Also, the information
sheet from the pharmacy indicates that it should be
taken with food. Your doctor may have his/her reasons,
but I would check with him about this. By the way,
disturbing dreams can make me feel anxious all day, too. Not
always, but sometimes they do. Dona
January 16th, 2004 at 4:50 pm
Hello, again. I know that you are supposed to
take glucophage with food, as it does have a tendency
to upset your stomach. My husband is a pharmacist
and he verifies this, but it would be best if you
check with your doctor. Am sure since you are his
patient he knows what he is doing. I’m on 2000 mgs. of
glucophage a day. Does that mean my dreams are super extra
vivid:):) Just kidding. But, truly they are wild.<br
January 17th, 2004 at 6:11 pm
Hi AnglePie,<br
but I also have been having incrediblely vivid
dreams. Not all of them have been horrid, but some VERY
STRANGE and disturbing. Some though have been rather
pleasant…<br
of the night often with the bed clothes soaked
through, and my pillow wringing wet. And it is not that I
keep my apt. hot. I sleep with the windows open and
the fan going, so it is what most people would
consider cold.<br
the only one who has had these reactions. At times in
my past, when diagnosed as having Major Depression I
was on medications and I had effects similar to
these. <br
years ago and have not had these dreams since. Since
they have resumed I was afraid that I was lapsing back
into my Depression. Now that I know it could be the
Glucophage I am somewhat releaved. I was afraid to tell
anyone about the dreams, thinking it was just my mind
going boinkers again.<br
postings to back me up, I will have to ask my doctors
about the “dream factor” of
glucophage.<br
January 18th, 2004 at 8:01 pm
Hello. So, you are having the same problem with
vivid dreams. I’m going to ask my husband who is a
pharmacist to do some research on this subject. Maybe he
will come up with some information for us.<br
good day.<br
January 22nd, 2004 at 12:33 am
Dear Keene,<br
wonder if it is just the Glucophage, or an interaction
between the Glucophage and other medications? I am also
taking Hyzaar for high BP. <br
do drug testing they are through, but I wonder if
they test to see how drug combos work
out.<br
weekend. (I hope to go thrifting and secondhanding if the
weather is nice.)<br
January 31st, 2004 at 2:53 pm
It’s not as if the brain and the body are two
separate entities that don’t receive chemicals from each
other. So, I suppose they don’t mention the dreams
because they either don’t know or because they think them
insignificant.<br
piano and pounding someone’s head with it until I
cracked his cranium like an egg shell and the little legs
dripped with brain goo. Now, trust me when I say, I am
not that violent in real life and haven’t seen a toy
piano in twenty years plus. On the other hand, there is
an occassional noisy neighbor hereabouts who, if
they ever made it open season on neighbors using toy
pianos, might have cause to worry. Let’s go to KBee Toys!