Nightmares??

Since I've been home from the hospital (Weds), I've been having pretty nasty dreams. The problem is, it's not just when I'm "asleep", sometimes, when I wake up in the middle and close my eyes, I still "see" creepy ass stuff. I assumed it was because of pain killers (after the ER doc doped me to the gills Weds evening, I got home and when I opened my eyes, there was a mist in my bed room....super weird. Tonight I haven't had any pain meds...but I still had a really bad nightmare and was super incoherent upon waking. Has anyone else experienced bad dreams after surgery? Maybe it's because I feel like crap that my brain dialed into "24/7 scare your pants off" channel? 

I was exactly the same way.  I also relived them when I would close my eyes, but I contribute that to an overactive imagination - same reason I can'****ch scary movies :)

When I had my son I did. I had an emergency c section that I was put under due to me feeling them open me up(umm..yeah!) So the pain was 10x worse had I just had a spinal. I had night terrors!!! I woke up screaming, its even noted in my file that on day 2 I was given dilaudin(spelling?) and I was "convulsing" but tests came back normal and everyone I know that gets seizures say they don't know they have them. I knew I was shaking. I hope you feel better

I wouldn't say I've been having bad dreams, but just some totally weird, screwed up dreams. And if I wake up, they seem to pick up right where they left off when I go back to sleep. Hubby thinks its from the pain meds... but I don't know. 

Nightmares are a secondary effect of the narcotic component in some pain medications, (Tylenol #2 and #3  for example) They will eventually go away. Medications, have what is called a "life time".  They  stay in our systems and are still active  for some time after the last dose- until the drug is metabolized  and excreted completely. I hope this helps! 

Just weird. Never experienced it before. If it's still going on I'll talk to the wls shrink when the time comes. Maybe I need a nightlight. I sleep during the day okay, but nights are bad.