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I'm 2 days out and I think mybe detoxing from drugs etc but i just woke up I'm a sweat from what felt like the worlds longest nightmare.

I was in a hotel, but not the one I'm actually in. My kids were here and I kept having to save them from Dieing. (Quick sand was sucking up my son and I flew over him and pulled him out). Then I went home In the dream but it also wasn't my house. Lol. My husband had bought mice and rats and ferrets and I was sweeping all of the animals off tables really hard w my forearm and flinging them against the wall. Lol

I think the dreams were freaking me out because also in a part of this crazy nightmare my heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest and I kept going from floor to floor to find someone who would call the hospital but they all looked like something out of a Steven long movie and laughed at me so I had to find my way to the hospital. On my way I found a letter from my surgeon that said "I'm sorry, yes, the anticoagulant can cause pounding heart"

Then I woke up thank god.

What the??!

I'm not going back to sleep for a while now. And it's 12:40 am. Sigh. "/

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My dream side effect happened right after surgery I think it's the chemicals. Anyway I dreamed I was bidding on eBay and every time I bid the song call me maybe would play and it kept happening over and over and over. It drove me insane!

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You guys.....even though I wasn't looking for members to join my club of "sleepless nights".....Welcome"......membership has it privileges....u get to catch up on all the infomercials u ever wanted....u get to listen to everyone in your home sleep, and the added bonus...u even might get a crazy nightmare in if your lucky. :) :) :)

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Yes its the drugs, it will get better...

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Vicodin does that to me (which is why I insisted on coming home with anything but Vicodin)...it's incites uneasy sleep filled with looping fever-like dreams. I like to calling it "riding on the hamster wheel of doom." It does get better.

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Vicodin does that to me (which is why I insisted on coming home with anything but Vicodin)...it's incites uneasy sleep filled with looping fever-like dreams. I like to calling it "riding on the hamster wheel of doom." It does get better.

I wonder if ketorolaco is the equivelant of Vicodin.

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My dream side effect happened right after surgery I think it's the chemicals. Anyway I dreamed I was bidding on eBay and every time I bid the song call me maybe would play and it kept happening over and over and over. It drove me insane!

That IS a nightmare :P

The crazy dreams are a prolonged side effect of anesthesia. I had such vivid dreams in the hospital my nurses would come in and wake me because my pulse and Oxygen levels would change. They said its normal. And I don't have those dreams anymore :)

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