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Originally Posted by leah52
For the past couple of years if my husband (dx 3 yrs) got any sleep at all it was a celebration. Lately he has awakened from "sudden day sleep" in a pretty severe fog that takes awhile to clear. Last night, though, was scary... he awoke screaming from a bad nightmare, a kind a dream he said he has never had before. It was more of a night terror situation than a traditional nightmare. Again, it took a few minutes for him to be aware that I was beside him and he was out of the dream.
Have any of you experienced this? Do you think this is PD related, or just a freakish occurrance?
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it's a supossedly a side-effect from L-dopa -
if you will read the insert from the pharmacy -it will be listed.
or call the pharmacy and ask the pharmacist adverse reactions / side effects:
it may also be listed on mirapex - requip etc, however I have had night terrors for many many years before being dxd with PD...
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...d.php?p=286445
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Nightmares, Sleepwalking, and Night Terrors Haunt Many
No one knows the true purpose of dreaming. Most researchers think that when we dream, we process what we've learned during the day, store some of it, and throw the rest out. Another theory is that dreaming helps us deal with emotions that we might have been putting aside during the day. But nightmares, night terrors, and sleepwalking are not a normal part of our dreaming sleep.
Rose Franco, MD, Fellowship Director of the Medical College of Wisconsin's Sleep Medicine Program, says that children and adults have nightmares for mainly the same reasons. "Something disturbing becomes distorted in your dream and it becomes scary," she explains.
There are some cultural differences in dreaming, whereby people in a particular culture have nightmares about similar subjects, but there are several subjects that are common across all cultures. "Everybody has the nightmare about falling and the dream about running too slow," notes Dr. Franco.
When nightmares, night terrors, and sleepwalking are recurrent, they are called parasomnias - which means "arising from sleep." Dr. Franco says that while dreaming is normal, recurrent nightmares, night terrors, and sleepwalking are considered disorders and often indicate more serious sleep health issues.
Nightmares
"Sometimes nightmares occur because of disturbing things that happen during the day, as in the case of someone who's going through a depression or an anxious period in their lives, or because of social or work-related situations," says Dr. Franco. Very vivid recurring nightmares can also be an indication of post-traumatic stress disorder.
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002732.html