dreams?

[britbike]

I read some-one's post that they have vivid dreams before a cycle starts and one at the end of a cycle. Is this common?

I had just read the post and was telling my friends about it. 2 days later I had a very vivid dream (I don't usually remember dreaming). I haven't had a "dance" since the dream. I have had 2 low shadows but that is it...3 days and counting

I was hoping to be ready for a shroom treatment...and wasn't sure I could wait until I was "detoxed" because of the number of dances (4-5/day) for 3 months...My Dr. had prescribed Lithium and I was worried about starting down that road. Thanks to those that said don't do it...I am glad I waited...A few more days of detox...And it is shroom time. I am a little worried that I might start the cycle again by trying the shrooms treatment---but after all the pain, money, begging for meds from the insurance company, and Dr visits---anything is better!

Thanks for all the help,

Rod

[FunGuy]

Don't know about the dreams, I seldom dream when in or out of cycle.  :-(

"\

I am a little worried that I might start the cycle again by trying the shrooms treatment---

There in lays the dilemma. 

What if you don't try and start into cycle?

What if you do try and do start into a cycle?

What if you don't try and don't?

What if you do and don't?

Seriously. 

The truth is we may never know.  But the experience of so many suggests you try IF you are prepared properly.  Set and setting stuff.  Game face on.

Good luck.

Dg

[ThatHurtsMyHead]

I always have VERY vivid dreams just before my cycle starts.  Usually violent and very real.  When my CH stops, so do the dreams.  (or I have normal dreams). 

This is really weird to say out loud, but here's how real the dreams are: 

Once, I woke up and needed to pee in the middle of the night.  Got up from bed walked to the bathroom.  lifted the seat (yes I put it down when done   Started peeing.  About half way through peeing I wake up in bed mostly in shock because I don't know how I got back in bed and I'm wet.  I lay there for a few minutes in complete shock.  I remember feeling the soft sheets when I got out of bed and smelling the clean bathroom smell when I walked in, and the cold tile on my feet.  It was completely real in every aspect of my memory.  (Thankfully the bathroom incident only happend once, but the dreams are that real).  I only get vivid dreams like this just before a CH cycle starts, usually 1 to 2 weeks.  They're like clockwork every cycle.

(I'm likely going to regret sharing the above, but that's how real the dreams are.  They're indistinguishable from reality until I wakeup and realize the memory was really a dream).  Sometimes I have a hard time separating the dream from reality when I wake up (Is my grandmother alive or dead?  The memory of her funeral, was that real or part of the dream?).  It can be somewhat confusing when I wake up sometimes.  I also wakeup with all the emotions and physical feelings from the dream just like whatever happened, really just happened.

Anyway, the dreams started at the same time as my CH.  And both started shortly after taking Lariam 23 or so years ago.  Lariam is an anti malaria medicine that also has vivid dreams as a side effect.  I hypothosize that the Lariam did something to my brain that the CH interacts with each cycle when it's starting. 

Jeff

[tingeling]

I didn`t dream for many years, or maybe i just didn`t sleep long enough to start dreaming cause of attacks. I don`t know. But i started to get really awful nightmares after those years. Nightmares where i was awake in a way st the same time. Now i only get these very vivid dreams when i go into high cycle. If a bust should trigger a cycle, or give you post dose hits, then you could just do another bust or two? Not that complicated really, give it a try

Good luck to you and let us know how it went and how your doing!!

My best wishes

Tingeling