Posted by Dinah on October 10, 2001, at 20:55:17
In reply to Re: Neurontin and odd dreams » Dinah, posted by jay on October 10, 2001, at 19:40:58
I suggested Neurontin to my pdoc because I had heard about the lack of side effects. It did seem to work well for anxiety for the one week I took it. I was taking it for anxiety and to level out my moods. When I mentioned to my doctor about the dreams and the thick-headedness, he immediately told me that I didn't need that and he discontinued the medicine. He also insisted that I call him in a few days to make sure I had no problems discontinuing. I suppose that made me view the dreams with more suspicion, since doctors usually try to encourage you to wait out side effects.
I don't have any dream problems with Depakote, even at higher doses than I am currently taking. I also usually have few dreams, and the ones I have are rather mundane, so these were especially disturbing to me. The oddest part was that one part of me was thinking that the ideas following the dreams would bring about world peace or something equally important and I must wake up immediately to act on them. The other part of me was thinking that if I were awake while I was thinking these ideas, that I would be delusional or something, because they were so odd. So I would try to wake up immediately to shake them. And of course I couldn't even move my tongue or open my eyes.
I'll ask my doctor about this later this month and see if it is worth another trial. However, when I told him that I was hoping Neurontin would be similar to Klonopin in that it would just reduce the physical symptoms of anxiety without changing the quality of my thoughts, he replied that maybe he could use that information to make a decision about future meds. Maybe he has something different in mind.
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