I have been having horrific dreams lately. they include, torture, death, beatings, people chasing me, getting tied up and tortured, and people breaking into my place. Also sleep paralysis, sleep talking, sleep walking. And apparently I had sex in my sleep but did the motions in real life. (humped the bed)
I had been dignosed with ptsd about six or seven years ago. So my doctor thinks the dreams spawn from that. So she gave me prozosin, which has been used on war veterans for the same problems I have.
Has anyone been on this med?
It is also used to lower blood pressure.
my doctor said she read an article in a magazine about it, last week. She has never prescribed it before. So I feel like a guinea pig.
In order to determine and compare the pharmacodynamic responses to single and multiple dose prazosin therapy in cardiac failure, 14 patients with severe low-output heart failure underwent central and regional hemodynamic measurements after random placement in one of two prazosin dosing schedules. A single 5 mg oral dose of prazosin (Group A, no. = 7) significantly increased the cardiac index and stroke volume index while significantly decreasing systemic, pulmonary and pulmonary capillary wedge pressures and vascular resistances. Hepatic plasma flow and limb blood flow increased after the single dose. Striking attenuation of these hemodynamic effects occurred when the same dose was administered after 24 hours of pretreatment with oral prazosin, 2 mg every 8 hours (Group B, no. = 7). The plasma prazosin levels of the two groups, drawn 2 hours after administration, were 24.5 and 30.5 ng/ml, respectively. Repeated administration of prazosin in patients with congestive heart failure results in rapid attenuation of its beneficial central and regional hemodynamic effects. The usefulness of this vasodilator as a preload- and afterload-reducing agent in the clinical setting of chronic congestive heart failure may be limited by the development of pharmacodynamic tolerance.