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frenchwench

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I take Metformin 2000 mg per day and 10 mg Gliclacide (French). I suffer from the most vivid dreams and often nightmares causing me to cry out in the night. Any solution to prevent this gratefully received. Thank you.
 
What is your BG like at night?
We are all different but, for me, vivid dreams are a symptom of high BG during the night.
Reducing my BG keeps me dreams at bay.
 
Just to prove we're all different, my vivid dreams are usually associated with a night time lows.:facepalm:
 
Along the same lines as @slip . Most vivid dreams have occurred whilst low blood sugars.
Could glicazide be causing late night lows?
 
I have often wrote about my vivid Technicolour story dreams.
This happens when I am totally out of control of my blood glucose levels, high and low. Also when I'm ill or both!

Not being ill or in ketosis seems to keep them away.

I'm also lead to believe that some foods can cause problems with your dreams.
But how do you know which foods?

Milk chocolate did it for me! (Sigh!)
 
therower said:
Along the same lines as @slip . Most vivid dreams have occurred whilst low blood sugars.
Could glicazide be causing late night lows?
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Probably so, but if I take gliclizide in the morning, I'm not great by lunchtime. Bit of a vicious circle methinks with gliclizide, hence only taking 10mg ( half tablet). Being at the top of the metformin dosage, I've tried numerous others as additional and gliclizide seems the best for me.
 
frenchwench said:
I take Metformin 2000 mg per day and 10 mg Gliclacide (French). I suffer from the most vivid dreams and often nightmares causing me to cry out in the night. Any solution to prevent this gratefully received. Thank you.
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well it is normal to mourn a lot when getting this diagnosis, some try to suppress that , but as Freud would have said it can show in our dreams then ... so maybe you are still mentally knocked out from trying to cope with this annoying diagnosis... just suggesting maybe it is something else.... but our dreams are many times the entrance to our sub-conscious mind ... maybe your sleep is a bit disturbed from the metformin... mine was at least initially where I suddenly har to go to the toilet 3-4 times every night, which is why I did eat my metformin the whole dose in the mornings... now happy to say that I don´t need metformin anymore.

wish you good luck in solving why your dreams are that vivid... actually all humans usually dreams 5-6 dreams every night but most cant remember them at all...
 
Trying to find out the reason why I was having these vivid colourful dreams, I read a lot of studies that debated that the many stages of sleep all had a part to play with our mental and physical health.
The biggest problem was not getting enough deep sleep. Too much rem sleep was not good. If you get little or insomnia, or disturbed sleep, your body's natural healing process would be interrupted.
We all feel better for a good night's rest, which coincides with not remembering your dreams.
We all feel awful after a bad night, we feel lethargic and our mental attitude towards others and lifestyle is different. Having a hangover, without alcohol, like morning is a sign of something going on. Which of course is debatable, you could be ill in many ways, or your life cycle. I always remember my dreams on these nights!
And of course we need to dream.

Since I got my life and health back and I'm fitter than I have been for a few decades, the bad nights are far fewer, I don't remember dreams and I get continuous good nights sleep.
 
Bit late to the discussion - I was diagnosed only a month ago (T2) Following some fluctuation and experimentation with my GP, I’m now on 2x 500mg doses of Metformin and a single dose of An SGLT2 Inhibitor. Since taking the inhibitor my sleep is filled with vivid dreams.

I’m often very, very tired particularly in the afternoons. But even a short nap will be filled with dreams. They’re not nightmares, but they’re rarely pleasant, but all are vivid. It’s very, very weird!
 
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