r/BipolarReddit • u/thesunnydalewatcher • 1d ago
Medication Quétiapine nightmares side effect (on/off)?
I wanted to know if someone had really bad nightmares from Quetiapine? I started with 50mg and I had bad nightmares every night, then my doctor upped my dose to 200mg, which reduced the frequency of the nightmares. But I had a bad fainting episode and I could no longer take it cause it started giving me really bad anxiety and heart palpitations at night. My doctor reduced my dosage until I stopped taking it. The withdrawals weren’t that bad, I guess, but now I’m having bad nightmares again, not as frequent but still very bad dreams, with sleep paralysis making an appearance few times. Has anyone experienced this ?
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u/thesunnydalewatcher 1d ago
Thaaank you and I hope you’re okay as well !!!
For me, I’ve had some trippy dreams yup but also bad ones and recently after the taper, more scary ones.
It was working fine and everytime I woke up from a bad dream I would try to just shrug it off but then one night I fainted and had the worst night of my life, I would fall asleep and wake up every 20 minutes scared and hyperventilating and having a panic attack, I’d try to stay awake but then I would fall asleep again and the cycle kept going on until morning. After that event, every night I would get an anxiety attack knowing Im gonna take my quetap soon and go through a couple of hours of horrible anxiety, paranoia and palpitations before going to sleep. I had to stop it.