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Surgery Monday and 4 weeks of nightmares

ryverrat
ryverrat
I have my cataract surgery on Monday but that is the easy part. For 4 weeks now the nightmares have been back full force. Not even Ativan before bed is stopping them. It has been a struggle to keep up at work and finding time to get to the bottom of these nightmares is almost impossible.
I thought it was just nervousness about the surgery- wrong. Got the time and everything confirmed and I am still wrestling in my sleep with demons. Beginning to think it is something deeper. I did get a snippet of info from an aunt about things in my childhood a few weeks ago- could that be it? Guess I will find out when I meet with her to talk on Wednesday.

Sorry for not posting in a while. Hope everyone is doing better. Oh and if anything I typed looks funky- sorry, can't see the print too well right now.

RR
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Ativan has always been my nuclear weapon in my sleep arsenal that I would use as a last resort to put a stop to cycles of insomnia. So for you to call it out by name as not working for you right now gets my attention. You have my sympathies, because I wouldn't even reach for Ativan unless in sleepless torment. Then if it didn't work, I don't know what I would do. Glad you posted about it here.

It would be suffering at any time, but for it to start exactly when your cataract surgery is coming up would spike my PTSD anxiety upwards in a special way. So sorry! I hope you get through the weekend to Monday's surgery with all the support we can give you here.

The hope I can wring out of this anxious situation is that these demons are visiting because they are memories that want to be laid to rest in therapy. in the long term. That's a hope for the long term. Please lean on us for the short term to Monday and the days following. Sending thoughts for sleep and rest your way.