nightmares after gastric bypass surgery?? - ThinnerTimes

kit60 · 12-21-2007, 12:07 AM

Has anyone one else had terrible nightmares after gastric bypass surgery? I am 8 weeks post op and they are getting worse! At first they were just vivid. I woke up disoriented because they seemed so real. Now they are not only that but downright terrifying. I'm going to talk to shrink soon about them. I was just wondering if anyone else had the same experience.

Otherwise I am doing really well physically recovering from surgery and loosing and all. I get over tired after working 12 hour shifts, but that seems pretty normal.

Thanks all!

Debri85 · 12-21-2007, 02:21 AM

Hi Kit60,

I'm new, was surfing and saw your post...I had nightmares too...surgery on Dec 2. It was so weird but they seem to have subsided. I hit my husband the other night

...very weird indeed.

I was still on some of the meds and wrote it off to that...are you on anything?

Deb

kit60 · 12-21-2007, 04:00 AM

Not on any new meds and off of most of the old ones. That was the first thing I thought of too.

You hit your husband? That must have been some nightmare. LOL

Robin W · 12-21-2007, 08:45 AM

I had nightmares, but only while taking the loritab pain medicine. There were some really strange dreams during that time. Glad they went away when the medicine did!

Vertigo · 12-21-2007, 09:50 AM

I know I did. I was having terrible nightmares -- even ones about eating foods I shouldn't. I think it was a chemical thing ... or the medicine I was on.

FYI, though -- it will get better. Hang in there!

Debri85 · 12-21-2007, 10:43 PM

I think I was trying to deflect something and he was too close. It woke me up when he said "Hey!" LOL

Deb