Bad dreams and hallucinations after surgery
I am 3 days post-op. Since the surgery I have had numerous bizzare dreams. All have been bad dreams and I seem to realizie that I am hallucinating in the dream.
I have also noticed that I often wake up talking loudly, continuing the dream awake for a few seconds. This caused the nurses to check on me during the hospital stay.
I think this must be a reaction to the medications given during surgery or perhaps a sudden withdrawl from Paxil.
Has anyone else experienced this or heard of someone else having these disturbing dreams?
Hi Randy - I had my surgery on 11/19 w/ Dr. Aguirre and after I left the hospital - I had the craziest dreams - my friend was staying in the apartment with me and she came running in three nights in a row brcause I was screaming and yelling and she would wake me up - It felt terrible - I believe its the pain meds they gave - it doesnt happen to everyone but also I was not taking my prozac while down there - so maybe between not taking your usual meds and then them giving you so much pain meds - maybe that causes it............. it went away after 3 days............
Know how ya feel.... I was putting cheese on top of an unidentified pretty blond head that was on pizza dough crust and using the long pizza paddle to put it in the pizza oven!!!!! I had wild dreams the first 3 or 4 days after surgery. I attributed it the anesthetics used in surgery working its way out of my body. After those 3 or 4 nights, I now know what an LSD trip would be like!
Robin