Scary Episodes at Night :( will someone please help - Anxiety Message Board

JennaBK25 · 01-16-2008, 09:16 AM

Last night I must have had been having a horrible dream but I have no recollection of it at all! My fiancÃ©e called me this morning to make sure I was alright and I was like yeah I think so why? And this is what he told me:
â€œYou were shaking and mumbling in your sleep then started to really toss and turn, when I went to rub your head your flinched hard and backhanded me that curled up in the corner of the bed and shook even harder. Then I went to rub your back and you flung straight up and was breathing really hard and just started to sob. You curled up next to me and had a death grip around my waist crying and saying â€˜donâ€™t let me go â€¦.Iâ€™m so scaredâ€™ when I asked you of what you just mumbled again and just fell back into sleep but had that grip on me the rest of the night.â€

The part that scares me the most out of all of this is that I have no idea this even took place. I donâ€™t even remember dreaming this. On 1/13/08 I was taken off Zoloft and Trazodone, also on this day I began taking Klonopin, then on the 1/14/08 I began taking Effexor XR.

Please has anyone experienced this or no anything about it??? Iâ€™m afraid of what I might do nextâ€¦..

JennFL · 01-16-2008, 12:54 PM

I do the same thing but I have always had very vivd dreams my whole life. They are sometimes as bad as you describe here but usually involve me having a bad day mixed with taking xanax or klopin in a higher dose before bed. my husband just rubs my belly and that usually calms me right down. He used to try and stop me and wake me up but I would hit him, lol so rubbing my belly is easier!

JennaBK25 · 01-16-2008, 03:39 PM

Do you think that Klonopin could be contributing to it? How long have you been on it?

gauchoamigo · 01-16-2008, 04:33 PM

Ah. Solution in sight. SSRIs. Dreadful things, supposed to be the next generation of anti-anxiety pills, but they only work in about 50% 0f users and the other 50 (like me) get a million times worse. The had me on citalopram, and I lasted less than a week - I was experiencing night panics, constant 24/7 anxiety and at LEAST one fully-blown panic attack per day for the six days I stuck the stuff. They can be really nasty drugs yet some folks find them just the job. I am afraid I'm one of the ones that get caught by them ina horrible grip of thanatophobia. Klonopin if you are American - Rivotril (clonazepam) to the rest of the world - is a really good drug for night panics, should help considerably because of its length of action. It isn't a hypnotic so doesn't put you bang to sleep, in fact it produces less sedation than most benzos, but if you need a sleeper then I like flunitrazepam. It is very long-acting for a hypnotic and you don't need a morning anxiolytic. There are one or two countries where it is not a Sched IV or III (just got upgraded to III here) but higher, so very difficult to get scripted, but if you CAN, then it's one of the best for night panics and bad insomnia. My favourite, rotated with Flormidal (midazolam) to lessen the likelihood of dependence/tolerance. But if you're taking SSRIs then they are most likely the cause. I have heard some very nasty stories and feltsix very nasty days of them.
Gaucho

JennFL · 01-17-2008, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by JennaBK25

Do you think that Klonopin could be contributing to it? How long have you been on it?

If you have no tolerance to benzos (kolopin) then yes I totally think it could be part of the reason you were A. in such a deep sleep and B. dont remember anything. Benzos especially xanax in higher doses with someone that has a low tolerance can cause black out moments. I have taken large doses of xanax during a major attack and wake up the next day not remembering going to bed and I have also have weird crazy dreams that I dont remember but my husband says hey you were talking in your sleep last night or hey you wigged out last night I had to rub you and hold you till you fell alsleep. Its not something that happens often but if it does its scary. I know the feeling. Scary when you do things and dont remember them at all.

If I were you taking the klopin at night like I do I am assuming ( I take my 5mg lexapro and .5 mg of klonopin at night before bed) I would take it earlier then you do now. I used to take mine at 10pm but now I take it between 7-9 so that its in my system for a while and I am not just taking it and then passing out causing it to knock me out. We have similar issues and thats been helping me.