Have you tried Prazosin? I just suggested it to someone else here. It's for nightmares. I've taken it for a year now with good results I never had with Seroquel or anything else before.

I've taken it and it helped for a few days and then stopped helping. But thank you.

Do you have another room to sleep in? Perhaps try sleep in another room. I know when I am like this if I sleep on the couch it helps. Sometimes I have to turn in the lights too.

I get scared sleeping by myself

If you can, pass on the info about Prazosin stopping being helpful, would you? It's the only nightmare med that's safe for my kidney disease since it's processed through the liver, so I hope it'll remain effective.

Seroquel's rough. I don't know if you tried it, but it was rough on me. Over the counter melatonin did help, though, Don't know if you've tried it.

Attempts to avoid nightmares by staying up only added sleep deprivation to my already over-full psycho-baggage car. I often wonder if the hallucinations that go with sleep deprivation are dreams which are leaking through to the conscious world. Whatever. . . For sure, sleep deprivation is a worse side-effect than any med side effect I have ever experienced. No fun, at all.

A dream journal was my first breakthrough in calming my nightmares. I kept a pen and paper by my bed or under my pillow so that I could write about it immediately after waking up. If nothing else, it calmed the after-nightmare hysteria I was experiencing back then.

Gentle support while you find what works for you, Mitzi. No doubt about it. Nightmares suck, both literally and figuratively.

@mujicaptsd, I'm sorry about your disease. I will definitely pass it on! I used to take Seroquel for my Bipolar but it stopped working. And the melatonin actually made my nightmares worse and I would sometimes sleep more and then sometimes I would sleep less. But thank you.
@arfie, I try not to stay up. But I do sometimes becuase I'm so terrified of what nightmares I could have. I used to have hallucinations but they stopped because I got so used to staying up for 24 hours or more. I've tried a dream journal but what would happen is either I would be so tired and exhausted from the nightmare I would fall back asleep before I could write it down or I would be lucky and forget what it they were about. But thank you for the support.

hi mitzi. i used to have bad nightmares when i could sleep. i almost said how lucky i am now - and i feel that way a lot too. i started having seizures because the PTSD got so intense and stress was so high, it triggered seizures. my neuro tried a medication to try to prevent the seizures and it helps - it also konks me out at night and rarely seizures. no more nightmares most of the time either - i do feel lucky. i know i shouldn't feel lucky to have seizures but it is so much better than having nightmares. ((((thinking hugs to you))))

i wonder if you are allergic to cats or dogs? i sleep with 1, 2, or 3 dogs and that helps so much. i would have cats too, but i am allergic.

having them with me releases that worry mechanism somehow. not always, but often.

I'm glad you were able to stop most of the nightmares even though it came with a cost. I have a dog that sleeps with be but it doesn't help. I actually have nightmares of her getting in trouble and me having to save her. Which sucks. But thank you for the suggestion.