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[NorthArm]

Is anyone else here suffering from crippling nightmares of nameless things?

I had a nightmare on Friday night that I was pinned to the bed by something invisible and couldn't move, or fight it off....was eventually able to wake myself - pounding heart, terror etc, but couldn't sleep properly again afterwards.

All weekend, was a moody bitch, like I had pms.

Then last night, my nightmare was of a black lacey sheet that slithered down off my curtain and on to me....I couldn't move, trying to fight it off and screaming. My husband woke me and settled me, but I couldn't get into a deep sleep again after that.

Today I'm feeling really anxious about going into work tomorrow, and I can't stop thinking about last night's dream 😢

I started taking Femoston 2/10 about 5 weeks ago and have been taking a lorazepam 1mg nightly stay asleep all night (usually no prob getting to sleep without, but jerk wide awake after about 4 hours, which is awful ☹️, so 1mg at bedtime keeps me asleep all night usually)

I had extreme peri symptoms - agitation, anxiety, brutal insomnia, thoughts of suicide....tried an ad which only made things much worse.....and the Femoston was really helping. In fact, by last Wednesday I was almost feeling back to my old self. Then night sweats (not severe) on Thursday night....followed by this awful weekend.

I'm not sure if I'm just mental, paranoid, or that the Femoston isn't working as it was.....anyone else going or gone through this? Any wise words would be much appreciated xx

[CLKD]

I have busy, involved dreams - my brain picks on an item of daily news, adds to that people I haven't thought of for YEARS, muddles it up with other stuff and away it goes    - some mornings I awake knackered  .  I take several medications for mental health 

[lesley998]

Is anyone else here suffering from crippling nightmares of nameless things?

I had a nightmare on Friday night that I was pinned to the bed by something invisible and couldn't move, or fight it off....was eventually able to wake myself - pounding heart, terror etc, but couldn't sleep properly again afterwards.

All weekend, was a moody bitch, like I had pms.

Then last night, my nightmare was of a black lacey sheet that slithered down off my curtain and on to me....I couldn't move, trying to fight it off and screaming. My husband woke me and settled me, but I couldn't get into a deep sleep again after that.

Today I'm feeling really anxious about going into work tomorrow, and I can't stop thinking about last night's dream 😢

I started taking Femoston 2/10 about 5 weeks ago and have been taking a lorazepam 1mg nightly stay asleep all night (usually no prob getting to sleep without, but jerk wide awake after about 4 hours, which is awful ☹️, so 1mg at bedtime keeps me asleep all night usually)

I had extreme peri symptoms - agitation, anxiety, brutal insomnia, thoughts of suicide....tried an ad which only made things much worse.....and the Femoston was really helping. In fact, by last Wednesday I was almost feeling back to my old self. Then night sweats (not severe) on Thursday night....followed by this awful weekend.

I'm not sure if I'm just mental, paranoid, or that the Femoston isn't working as it was.....anyone else going or gone through this? Any wise words would be much appreciated xx

The Hag, the Terror that comes in the Night, Incubus... Sleep Paraysis....it's a well known phenomenon. Terrifying when it happens, and I experienced it a few years ago.  The only way I got rid of it was to repeat over and over in my mind (when it happened) I command you to leave me in the name of Jesus Christ.   I'm not a religious nutter, but it worked. 

[linz57]

During times of stress I sometimes experienced these although mine was a faceless, black cloaked entity that would appear from nowhere in my dream and wrap its cloak around me. I would scream in terror, wake up the whole house and then myself.
I always knew when it was about to make an appearance in my dream as I would feel a sense of dread and foreboding a few seconds before it pounced. Ugh!

I stopped having this experience once I went onto hrt and my mind felt less anxious. Maybe you are feeling the results of a build up of the particular progesterone in your  hrt NorthArm and a different one would help? I don't know, it's just a thought.

[CLKD]

My busy dreams are more when my mind is anxious .........

[linz57]

Yes, no wonder we wake up exhausted sometimes.
I remember once hearing someone say that dreams were the brains filing cabinet and since then I have a mental image of all my dreams put into their own folders.... some more full than others 😄

[CLKD]

So that's what the activity is - I HATED filing when at work 

[babyjane]

I had a really weird dream last night.  If I could remember all the detail I could write the screenplay for a slasher movie! It seemed to go on all night too and I woke up feeling like I hadn't been to sleep.  I have never had sleep paralysis though.  Our eldest DS used to get this when he suffered badly from stress and couldn't work.

[NorthArm]

Thank you all for your kind replies - linz57 that was exactly what mine was......the first time it was invisible, the next time it was a black Lacey sheet that wrapped itself around me and I couldn't get it off.....woke my husband with the screaming! He settled me, but it was frightening.

I'd just started CBT and my therapist had suggested that when anxiety started in the day, to look at it and tell it I'd get around to it later. I've worked out that when I did that, that's when the nightmares started. I saw him again on Friday, and he agrees. Looks like it's not going to let go that easily lol 😂

So what I've started doing since, is when it appears I'm just telling it it's not real, and has no place here. Lol SweetPea, I love it!

I also suspect you're right about the build up of progesterone in my hrt too linz57.....I feel like a crazy person when I'm on that part of it....I pull it in as best I can, but truly there's very little relief. I have an appointment with a gynaecologist on the 22nd, I really hope she can help me.

It's so wonderful knowing I'm not on my own with this, and thank all you lovely ladies for your support xx

[linz57]

I hope the gynae can help you, it's truly miserable when your hormones are all over the place and even sleeping brings its own nightmares.

I wonder if we try giving our cloaked figures a real ridiculous name it would help? Now that's got to be worth a try and my mind is now going into overdrive at the possibilities haha.
However, I sometimes find paying too much attention to my anxiety or trying to overanalyse actually doesn't help. I'm better when I stay away from Google and get out into the real world and keep busy.

[NorthArm]

Lol Linz57  that's so true!

And the other thing I've noticed is that I feel worst when I'm on the progesterone part of hrt....am on count down for the gynae appointment!