Question about Prozac and Nightmares
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Question about Prozac and Nightmares
| Mon, 12-05-2005 - 9:39pm |
Hi Everyone-
I finally bit the bullet and started to take the prozac about 4-5 weeks ago. I was started on 10mg, and then last week started on 20 mg. I do take xanax .5mg 1 to 2x a day as well. However, I have a sinus infection and am on Augmentin for 10 days. I hate , hate taking all these meds!! I am getting headaches from my sinus and I keep thinking the worse, I just can't stop. Plus a few times now I have woken up in the middle of the night FREAKED out that something was going to happen to me, and I mean FREAKED out, then I calm down w/in 15 minutes that feels like hours, and go back to sleep.
Has anyone felt this way, with the headaches, and the weird wake up spells. I'm so scared and on guard 24-7.
Thanks!

I'm having awful allergy problems right now. I'm waking up during the night because the post nasal drip is so bad that I feel like I'm choking to death! It's been horrible. I'm so overtired that I just want to sleep, but can't as my little one just won't let me, lol. I hope you feel better soon. I haven't gone to the doctor, but I'm thinking I have a sinus infection as well. The headaches have been unbearable and nothing is working :(
Sheri Ann
Sheri Ann
(((Donna))) I am glad to hear that you've started the prozac. It should help in quieting your mind from these disturbing thoughts. I am a great one for thinking all sorts of awful things when my head is stuffy. It can be allergies or a head cold. To me it's a new sensation & combined with a headache, it brings out the idea that a stroke or brain tumor is @ work. You will be fine. It is what it is. No more. No less. Convincing yourself is difficult but doable.
I awakened to a PA on Saturday night. It was the worst. So many things like stress, a heavy snowstorm & my period were @ work to trigger it. I am ok now, but for about 15 minutes, I was holding onto the phone thinking I might need an ambulance. I belly breathed & positive thought my way to relaxing enough to fall back to sleep. I have needed to reassure myself extra the last couple of days, but I know from experience that this will pass. Your sinuses will clear up. Your meds will take effect. You will be right as rain. Please take care. Keep up the good work. Sending PT's your way. (((hugs))) jan
Hi Jan-
You are so right. That is exactly how I feel. I will get these twinges and I freak out, and I mean freak out! I walk around my house w/ a phone all the time and in the car too!
I have always had bad sinus's, and used to take Alegra-D regligiously, but my Dr. said that the D, was sudafed and would make me more anxious so I stopped. Well since them I have been miserable and I hate taking meds. However, I am now better about taking the prozac and xanax daily. But still with those, it is hard to get those little feelings out of my head. The best way I can describe it is: before there was a road and the anxiety was a solid sheet of glass on the road, now the road is still there but there are just shards of glass that I need to sweep away.
I can not tell you how many diagnosis I come up for myself in a week. The sad thing to me is, I was not like this before May, it all started then, and I want it to go away!!
Thanks for listening.
ps. you are a nurse right? how reliable is an MRI, I of course am questioning that as well.
Hugs, Donna
That totally sounds familiar!! I think it's the combination of meds and having to deal with multiple illnesses at one time. When I was getting over my kidney infection I was waking up all freaked out like that too and I would get awful headaches...especially at night. I was on an antibiotic, BuSpar for the anxiety, and Naproxen for the pain. It proved to be too much altogether like that.
I wish I had some advice for you. Unfortanately I never figured out just how to cope with that. I just deal with it until the infection was gone and I started feeling better.
Jennifer
"Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evi
Jennifer
"Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evi
Yes exactly!!!
I do that! I carry a phone around just anticipating. I never was like that. Does it ever get better?? I just wish I knew what triggered all of this. I can't make sense out of any of it. Especially considering I was always so independent, and now I'm scared of everything!!
I now am working on not checking my heartbeat. I do that too.
Its soo hard to not believe that there is something else wrong that they have missed. I don't want to hear oh sorry from my Dr's. I have had an MRI, CT Scan both of my head, full blood work, EKG, Ultrasound of my heart, and a CT scan of my abdominals(stomach, kidneys) all normal.
But I don't sweat, I don't shake. I just FREAK, FREAK out all of a sudden and feel like I'm about to just drop.
Thanks for listening!
Oh gee, I have had to learn to not check my pulse too. I was doing it probably a couple dozen times each day. I was obsessed with it and still have the urge to check it. It's a horrible thing to experience. I don't know what triggers these things to begin with. I know with me, getting sick in the first place did it. But I actually had my first panic attack three months prior to that and life was good. It wasn't until after getting out of the hospital and looking back on that experience that I realized it was, indeed, a panic attack. So who knows why I had it. Sometimes I am convinced it is all physiological. There is a physical tendency to have them and psychologically we 'trigger' them. That is why I think a combination of meds and therapy are an essential part of managing this illness. I really do. And I hope you find what works for you soon. Needlessly torturing yourself like this is a total nightmare.
Maybe you need to make an agreement with yourself and really push yourself to adhere to it. Perhaps just start by agreeing to trust the doctors and the tests. And use those tests to remind yourself regularly that you are okay. When I had my kidney infection I had a CT of my abdomen and a chest Xray. I've since had an abdominal ultrasound and an upper endoscopy. I've had my pap smear and I had the OB/GYN check my reproductive organs for tumors and growths. There was nothing there. Everything was fine. But because I felt so awful I refused to believe it and drove myself crazy. Now, when I start to question my health I remind myself of all the tests that were performed and how wonderful it is that they all came back negative!
Jennifer
"Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evi