We all know that we don't sleep well with RSD and a lot of the meds produce some wicked dreams. But, I am completely disappointed that I don't get any pain relief in my dreams. If I'm in a situation in ANY particular dream I am having, I still am burdened with my exact pains/disability/immobility that I have in my daily awake life with RSD. RSD follows me into my dreams! Which makes it really difficult when I have to run away from being shot at and my legs are burning and don't wanna move

Does anyone "get a break" from their ailments during a dream session??

Vanna,
That's a great question!

My dreams (nightmares) are mostly about the painful losses I've suffered, due to these injuries. (I won't go into it again).
But, I dream about how things "used to be", or "should be", even "should have been". A good dream is about how things might be.

But, I don't really feel any pain in my dreams. I've been in such "psych" pain, that I've never really thought about physical.

I can often wake with a migraine though.... yuk. That's often the TOS, and sleep positioning.


pete
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Let me say Vanna and Pete....

That since being diagnosised a few years ago..I don't remember any of my dreams....I can't recall even one..but I can say I have huge problems sleeping without my Ambien... Better yet..Pete..I too, get these horrible migraines sometimes.. I wake up with them..You think they are TOS, cuz not aware I had that.. I felt they are RSD of the brain or something..cuz as you know... they are aawful!!I get a sharp pain on the left side of my head..deep inside.. I actually had those plus a hearing loss issue ~ 2 - 3 years prior to having the obvious RSD showing up in my rt. leg after having a painful walk starting...then knee surgery... I think back and I think the RSD actually was present long before I was aware I had a problem...funny you mentioned the headaches.. really like toss your cookies sick feeling headaches..I often drink coffee.. take migraine meds and sit up until they are gone....nasty!!

KS

Vanna, It is so strange that u mention this because i was recently telling my husband that i have no pain in my dreams and last night he woke me b/c i was screaming-(i was dreaming i was being bit by a bug and it was burning and i couldn't get it off) when i woke i was having really bad burning pain in my wrist-one of my usual areas that burn. I feel like i jinxed myself. momof4

I think it is WONDERFUL for you all to get the opportunity to feel like a 'normal' person in your dreams. MOM, hilarious about the bug bite burning in dream sequence identical to the actual true pain in your wrist. That sort of thing happens to me all too often. I just wish that I could get a break from the painful, crippled body thing and at least just float painlessly in my dreams. LOL. Maybe my mind forgets what a non-RSD body feels like and can't project that into my dreams for me

I did have a dream where I was beaten and kicked by a mob. I imagine it was my sleeping minds' attempt to explain the pain felt by my body.

More recently, and perhaps better suited for a different thread, I have had problems with pins and needles in my arms and foot cramps when trying to sleep.


-steve

I have very weird dreams and frightening dreams and I sleepwalk a lot (my Dr reckons it's caused by the MS Contin I now take) and do really weird things while I sleepwalk! And I have insomnia, so my RSD (and medications for it) has really screwed up my ability to sleep normally!

But as for whether I'm in pain in my dreams, that's a no. When I'm in my dreams, I walk and run and do things like I used to- pre RSD. There's no pain, no disability... if only it could carry on like that when I open my eyes!

That's pretty cool.

I've long had this feeling that if I could just sleep for a month or two (or 360) I would wake up cured.

When I have PTSD dreams I feel the pain, and when I wake up it takes a long time to fade. I dream of getting wounded and for twenty minutes after I awake the pain is just like it was 20 minutes after getting wounded. It sucks. I won't take ant drug, but I wish I never had to sleep.

Hi I am new to the group, I have had RSD for almost 9 years and I have pain in my dreams every night well the nights I sleep well enough to dream. I have just kinda made it a part of the fight, dream and wake I dont let the pain stop me.
B