Vivid Dreams on Herceptin.

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Stickerlady
Stickerlady Member Posts: 31
edited June 2014 in HER2+ (Positive) Breast Cancer

For the past week or so I am having strange dreams and yesterday I was laughing in my sleep to a point that I was snorting and my husband thought I was crying and when he went to wake me he discovered I was laughing so  he let me enjoy my dream. Well I woke up laughing so hard and snorting but could not remember my dream. Today I woke up crying.I do remember my dream I was staying in a Hotel and someone stole all our things.Computer, phone, camera, cash, etc..... I was crying in my dream and I woke so upset and crying. Is this the Herceptin doing this? Does anyone else have Vivid dreams on Herceptin. I just had my second dose 1 and a half weeks ago.

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  • moonwolf
    moonwolf Member Posts: 130
    edited August 2009

    Glad you posted that as I am dreaming more on Herceptin too.  Reminds me of when I took Prozac years ago.

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  • jenbal
    jenbal Member Posts: 82
    edited August 2009

    Are you on Herceptin alone? I'm doing TCH, had infusion #5 a week ago, and it seems to have opened the nightmare closet! I've had a series of vivid and disturbing dreams -- along the lines of getting ready for a trip and encountering everything from minor frustrations to terrifying obstacles. (Yeah, I know -- don't need Freud to figure out the hidden meaning here! gulp.) I'm hoping it's the accumulated chemo -- which will be over within about a month -- not the Herceptin. Another 8 months of this I'm not looking forward to! -- Jenn

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  • moonwolf
    moonwolf Member Posts: 130
    edited August 2009

    Don't want to worry you jenbal, but I am only on Herceptin!  I finished chemo, FEC, then Taxotere, 4/5 months ago.  I didn't get nightmares on chemo.

    I'm into 2nd lot of Herceptin.  Nightmare closet - yep!  I've been getting stressful dreams, waking full of anxiety with heart pounding.  I go to the bathroom and try to take my mind off the horrible dreams, but then when I return to sleep the same dream continues.  I dreamt aliens were trying to take over my mind.  Then last night, like you stickerlady, I was laughing big time.

    I also seem to have mood swings in the daytime.  One day I can be very irritable, tearful and depressed and then another I can be happy and high.

    The main problem is tiredness - mind feels like marshmallows - can't think.  I wasn't tired on chemo or rads. 

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  • jenbal
    jenbal Member Posts: 82
    edited August 2009

    Ai yi yi . . . This is really interesting! I haven't seen this in any of the literature. I wonder if anyone has really looked at why this might be the case. Hmmm. Maybe need to learn some dream manipulation techniques to keep this from adding to the stress load. (See that's how my mind works -- when I encounter something potentially scary or worrisome, I switch into analytic-mode and go study!) Verrrry interesting indeed.

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