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Bad dreams

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I've been noticing ever since my anxiety became really bad I've been having bad dreams every night. I am taking Xanax and am wondering if this could be caused from the medication or from the anxiety. Any one experiencing this?
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Anxiety and the fear from it always cause me nightmares, I remember having my most frightening when I was really at a bad stage of my anxiety.
Hope you feel better soon.
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Anxiety definately can cause you to have nightmares.
(HUGS)
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I have very vivid, detailed, dreams every night, some bad, some good, most of them are weird as hell, I attribute them to all the meds that im on.
4tomorrow
4tomorrow
I have nightmares when I get really bad anxiety attacks. It's like I can't get a break from it even when I'm in sleep. The dream seems so weird that when I wake up I get confused and try to figure out if it was a dream or a reality. But I remember when I started taking zoloft I would have more vivid dreams.
DogCrazy
DogCrazy
Both anxiety and deppression, also new meds can bring on nightmares and very vivid wild dreams, this happens to me when anxiety or deppression not good.Take care and hope this wont last to long for you.
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I have nightmares if I take meds too close to bed-time..I take them earlier now, it helps.
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ive had some awful dreams when my anxiety was really bad. They were so vivid that they would wake me up in a panic, i would be shaking, sweating and my heart would race. I read a book on dreams and apparantly if you are thinking stressed out thoughts during the day, your brain stores it all up and then when you are asleep it kind of replays all the negative thoughts which gives you bad dreams. hope this helps!
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I have vivd dreams and nightmares almost every night....M
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I would think it was more the anxiety causing the nightmares rather than the xanax...but i guess everyone is diff. I've been on xanax for over 5 yrs...and i wouldn't say it's given me nightmares.
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Personally, I have had very lucid dreams on and off of meds. I honestly think it's all due to stress and the minds interpretation of how to deal with it all.
I never took Xanax but Lexapro messed me up pretty good as did Paxil.
My personal favorite is waking up with your heart pounding and you are in a cold sweat. Gota love stress.
deleted_user
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Thanks everyone for the replies. Someone had told me that one of the side effects from Xanax was having bad dreams but I agree with all of you that it's more the actual anxiety. It just was so odd because I was having some really good happy days but every night I was still having bad dreams. Just another peice of the puzzle in this fun journey. Hugs to all of you!
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