AEDs and dreams

[hawke86]

Speber, I know what you're going through. I have taken two of the medicines you mentioned and I still take one of them.

[morgan381]

I've never been much of a dreamer and haven't noticed any change since I started taking anti-epileptic drugs...Keppra & Lamictal. As for the night seizures: recently I've started having what I think are myoclonic seizures. It happens right as I am falling asleep, in that state between asleep and awake, and my legs will jerk, just once and I wake up. I've never had t/c's in my sleep (thankfully).

[Duvexy]

I have been on carbamamzepine for approximately 20 years. I have weird dreams. Sometimes they are vivid. I always try to find meaning to my dreams. I figure it is my brains way of communicating with me. I do have sad dreams as well as vivid dreams. I very seldom have good dreams.

[Belinda5000]

I've been taking Tegretol for over thirty five years since it came out in the 1970's.
I've taken a lot of other anti-epileptic drugs none have affected my dreams.
Belinda

[stilldancing_98]

Speber you are so wierd! I have awsome dreams. I always have. For about a year after my coma I didn't remember them. Then I went through a time of high stress and had night whatchman dreams, now those are "wicked" when your body doesn't really want you to sleep and it keeps waking you up and stuff. I hope you are never there.And if I am having seizures while I'm sleeping I have wierd kinds of dreams.Now I am on Keppra, topamax , lorazepam and some other stuff that makes me forget.But it makes me sleep heavy.

[Andrew]

Hi Robin,

"At least one preliminary study has found that Vitamin B6 may increase dream vividness or the ability to recall dreams.[5] It is thought that this effect may be due to the role this vitamin plays in the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin.[5]"

My Dreams are really vivid. So there my be some truth to this.

My condition is a rare type of Pyridoxine Dependent Epilepsy (PDE). I use a daily megadose of vitamin B6 (mainly), along with all the other B vitamins, to control my seizures. In just over 38 years of having epileptic seizures, I have never used any anti-epileptic drugs to control my seizures. anti-epileptic drugs have no positive effects on my seizures and have made them worse.

Pyridoxine HCl (vitamin B6) saved my life as a young child. It continues to prevent me from entering status epilepticus. I will need to take vitamin B6 for the rest of my life.

DO NOT ALTER ANY MEDICATION WITHOUT YOUR DOCTOR'S CONSENT.

Andrew

[Dispatch]

PTSD started the awful dreams, then anti-epileptic drug's added to it. Trileptal was the worst. Those dreams were just awful nightmares. My "Keppra Dreams" (as I call them) are just plain bizzare.

Dispatch

[stilldancing_98]

The last two nights I have had some weird dreams. But like I said. I have always dreamed that way. Alex has been so sick I dream about scary things. I solve a lot of issues this way.

[ziggidypoo]

Using the cpap machine for SA and the AE meds - I have such vivid dreams that it messes w/ memory because I don't know what is a memory of an event or a dream???

I used to have like a pre/post sleep state that I could hold full conversations and even walk, but I'd be asleep and dreaming and would be talking to the people in the dream. That's stopped, but I get up to go at least once a night and am more asleep that awake. Eyes closed. I was blind w/ my cataracts before surgery in 2003, so darkness and eyes closed, I reckon don't affect me - just please - don't move the bathroom!!!

(my favorite dreams are vivid "visits" with my brother, who passed away when he was 26 - cancer - I wake up from those dreams so happy, I miss him so bad)

I many times dream about bathrooms too like you said - gotta go go go!!!

[alivenwell]

They say you dream about your wishes and your mind sequentially covers the prior day's events. That helps one solve problems. I suppose there's no limit to one's imagination if that hemisphere is more active or dominant than the 'logical' side.

I also answer phones and people in my sleep and have NO idea what I said afterward. So, if somebody gave me a phone wake up call, I'd answer it, talk to them and go right back to sleep.

I have to set the most annoying alarms. I play 2 radio stations at once because that irritates me. And I set a wicked little cheap alarm that repeats itself several times. Whatever works!

[epileric]

I never used to have dreams, or at least remember them but recently (in the last year)I've been remembering some pretty bizarre & colourfull dreams. It seems as time goes on I remember them more & more frequently.

I don't take them too seriously but Many mornings I"ll wake up & check out the dream dictionary.

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/

[RobinN]

Forgive me if I have said this before:

Prior to Rebecca taking a B complex vitamin, when asked she would say she never remembered her dreams.

Frequently since taking the vitamin for over 1 yr, she has shared many dreams.

Interesting

[stilldancing_98]

I dream more about what is going on. Except lol, I dream that I'm naked sometimes at the wrong place. I know, gross. lol . Or sometimes I'm making out with the person I am having issues with. hmmmm my doctor. lol

[brain]

I don't take them too seriously but Many mornings I"ll wake up & check out the dream dictionary.

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/

Inquiring minds would like to know...
Would you mind sharing it with us?



(Teasing)

[epileric]

Inquiring minds would like to know...
Would you mind sharing it with us?



(Teasing)

Hmmmm, are you sure you'd like to know???

[charliekins]

randomly, i have started dreaming about things like Thomas the Tank Engine!

[Shelley]

I hated dreams on anti-epileptic drugs sometimes I'm falling, sometimes I'm in my b-day suit.
It seemed like I could never wake up from them, but I would struggle mightily to wake myself from the horrors that would occupy my dream state.
It is one of the reasons I will not go back to anti-epileptic drugs. The monsters were too horrifying.

[stilldancing_98]

Now that I am on Depakote er or xr or something, lol, I talk in my sleep.My son ran in the room yelling "Wake up! Wake up!" The only time I can remember not dreaming was after my coma. Other than that I have always been a vivid dreamer.

[reppowell]

I noticed a horrific change in my dreams well i wouldnt call them dreams i would now call them Nightmares.... i have horrific dreams involving my partner and its things that i just dont want my mind to think. I hate it with a passion. x

[Eve]

Before I was diagnoised with nocturnal seizures I had vivd nightmares. Once I went on Tegretol and then Carbatrol the nightmares stopped. I just recently started on Keppra XR and now I am having dreams again but they are not nightmares, just weird dreams. I will wait another week on these meds and see what happens. I much prefer not to have nightmares or dreams of any kind in y sleep because they always disrupt my sleep.