3 weeks of taking Pizotifen and terrible nightmares!
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I'm 3 weeks in and taking Pizotifen 1.5mg !!
The migraines have gone, though I still 'feel' a headache, or maybe I've had migraines so long that I feel numb??
I'm worried about the weight gain issue, and my appetite has grown vasly over just 3 weeks??
HOWEVER, My main concern is nightmares, I take the tablets as I go to sleep along with medication for allegies etc ! and about 3/4 hours later I'm woken with nightmares, and can't get back to sleep. Or maybe it's fear of waking to another nightmare !
I can't find anything about this in other posts ... Has anyone else had this problem?
Would be great to hear from other people?
Kaisse Xx
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Soulamber
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I have been taking 3mg for two weeks and am currently headache/migrain free....yeppi!
But like you my appetite has increased dramatically, but I am trying so hard not to give into it...lol
I have had a few nights where I have been woken up by dreams, which is unusual for me.
How are you getting on now?
nemonie
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Personally it is a small price to pay for having a migrain free day, just thought Id let you know that its not a combination of medication, must be a side effect.
All the best.
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The latest thing they are trying me on is Pizotifen. (not started taking it yet )
I have a one sided headache that comes on at anytime of day and can last between 2 hours and all day and night................but I can usually take it off with a strong shot of caffeine..........but it will be back the next day . (I'm not caffeine dependent )
Mine is a very deep dull headache .....not like they describe migraine at all.
can migraine be daily and dull ????
anyone have the same headaches??
nicoled
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but 6 years later.since starting a new job i was getting them often and they last for days, couldn see or breathe, untill i was sick and then i was fine within the hour. so i went back on pizotifen and after a month im havin nightmares now. and they last all night and im boiling. when i wake up im still soo hot. if im not screaming im shouting in really scared voice so my partner ses. should i carry on taking them lol
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I m suffering from daily headaches particular in the mornings. But every two / three months they become unbearable like today. I had to run to pharmacy to take extra supply of Pizotifen as my gp was closed. Two hours later after taking 1,5 mg it has gone.
So they do work for me thank God
Smacca77
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When on Pizotifen I noticed some daytime sleepiness and a gradual (yet modest) increase in appetite (well actually, it wasn't as if I wanted to eat more, just that what I did eat didn't seem to fill my up as it should). However, one thing that I did notice immediately though was the drastic alteration of my dreaming.
Generally my dreams are short, colourless garbled nonsense and are difficult to recall. Not so with Pizotifen! For the entire first week of taking it I was treated to dreams unlike any I've ever experienced before. Epic dreams; detailed and completely believable, furnished with plots and sub-plots involving complex locations with consistent elaborate features all of which I could recall near-perfectly on waking. It became something of a joke between me and my girlfriend (who was obliged to listen to my tales of adventure in exotic places) that if ever a drug was needed to cure writers-block Pizotifen and a good nap would be it!
I never experienced any nightmares (and due to the duration and realism of dreaming on Pizotifen I’m glad I didn’t!) These dreams gradually faded over the first 7-10 days.
In retrospect, if my migraine returned I wouldn’t hesitate to take Pizotifen again, it worked well for me.
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To anyone taking tablets with antihistamine please don't take them as well as pizotifen as the pizotifen contains antihistamine and this will make you so very drowsy if you take both. I have had to take ceterizine hydychloride for years as I have an allergy all year round, since I have started taking pizotifen I haven't needed to take my other allergy tablets which is great.
I'm really not sure if I am gaining weight with pizotifen as at the moment, my weight is going up and down on a daily basis. I don't seem to have an increased appetite and if I find I do I'll just snack on fruit or low fat yoghurts.
I take my pizotifen at night and I am finding it difficult to get up in the mornings possibly as my sleep is interuppted by the dreams I'm having, I'm not sure.
Strangely enough I took sanomigran ( pizotifen ) about 20 years ago for 3 months as I was having recurrent migraines and I'm sure that I didn't gain weight or feel any drowsiness and I think I just stopped them as quick as I started them with no withdrawal symptoms. I didn't have another migraine for 15 years which was wonderful.
foss99
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vanessa1217 Guest
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i have the same issue and it is physically draining me 😞 i have put on 1.5 stone since starting these though it was welcomed with only being 6 stone 3.
i have horrific nightmares as soon as i feel my eyes being forcefully shut, i also struggle to force myself out of this and find once i finally can i then have to keep myself awake for up to an hour or i slip straight back into these.
i have horrible migraines that give me blindness and paraliss of my right side so sometimes wonder if the nightmares are better than the pain i get.
i do find that these nightmares are worde when my partner is not home as i have no real thing to hold to when i am trying to wake.
i also get the feeling that someone is pressing on my and that my whole body is shaking like an electric bolt os going through me. gp not interested xxx