Nightmares w/ progesterone

tgeldreich · 08-06-2007, 02:15 AM

Hi everyone-

I just wanted to ask if anyone else gets nightmares or really bad dreams when they have to take progesterone? I also notice I am extremely moody when I am taking it. My husband wants to run and hide. I am only on 10mg. This is my last month taking it, but I am concerned that I may have to keep taking later on.
Thanks
Trina

Kathy2579 · 08-06-2007, 10:04 AM

The 1st time I took it I was miserable. I was up 1/2 through the night wth nightmares night sweats and heart racing.. If you have to take it longer tell your doctor. He or She may be able to try something else or recomend what can be done

Sanyia · 08-06-2007, 01:19 PM

I took a 10 day supply of provera 10mg two weeks ago (last dose was taken on 7/23) and I'm still having the crazy dreams. I'm talking crazy like I did when I was pregnant dreams. I'm glad to see someone else is experiencing this. I can still remember the one I had last night in great detail, heck I can still remember some of the scarier dreams (in amazing detail, I could probably draw you a storyboard of them if I was good at drawing) I had when I was pregnant with ds and that was 20+ months ago. Right now my doctor won't give me another dose to bring on AF until my next check up in Oct. He wants to see if the met alone is enough to regulate me. I'll be bringing up my s/e if he wants to prescribe it again.

My dh has been trying to be patient with me, but he wants to run and hide to0. I am apparently being a royal beach and not even realizing it. I'm just hormonal I haven't had af in 80+ days now. Between the met and the provera I've been tp spotting and dealing with pms type symptoms. I'm flat out exhausted, my boobs hurt, I'm cramping almost constantly and I'm moody. I can't help it I'm not in my normal peachy kean mood, I feel icky. Men!

BAHollist · 08-11-2007, 12:55 AM

Hi - I had no side affects from Prometrium the first couple of nights other than sleeping incredibly soundly - but by the 4th night I had nightmares and horrible hot flashes, I'd wake up in the middle of the night thinking my body was burning from the inside out.... luckily everything returned to normal once I was done with this cycle but, wow, I dread having take it again for 2 weeks next month...

KittiesMom · 08-12-2007, 04:46 PM

Holy crap, you guys are only 10mg?? My doc. gave me a presc. for 200mg. I have to start them soon, it's a 10 day supply to get a bleed going.
Well at least I'll be used to nightmares, I get them at least 4x a week (childhood repreasion). LOL I'm already a major b*tch, I can only imagine what it will do to me. Oh my...I should give my hubby a heads up before I start using these. I'm REALLY sensative to hormones that make you b*tchy.

KittiesMom · 08-12-2007, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by BAHollist

Hi - I had no side affects from Prometrium the first couple of nights other than sleeping incredibly soundly - but by the 4th night I had nightmares and horrible hot flashes, I'd wake up in the middle of the night thinking my body was burning from the inside out.... luckily everything returned to normal once I was done with this cycle but, wow, I dread having take it again for 2 weeks next month...

Hey I live in West Reading PA! Your like 20 minutes away from me! How mad is that??

DStout · 08-17-2007, 06:27 PM

The first time years ago that I took this I was like Jekyll and Hyde. My mood swings cycled with the commercials on TV - LOL. Anywho, I switched doctors and the new dr said they can play around with the dose and the form of progesterone to try to find one with less s/e. Then when I went to my RE I told her what had happened before and she prescribed me an oral form - like an oval yellow gel pill - but had me use it as a suppository instead of taking orally. She said she would just bypass ingesting to try to minimize those s/e. Talk to your dr if things are going weird because this is actually one of the few meds that we take that they can play with so we don't have to suffer too many s/e.
Good luck!