Alzheimer's and dreams?

• By cmn1 (Inactive)
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• October 22, 2012 at 9:16 am
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You are the first person I've ever heard mention this symptom. For several months after he first developed AD and before he was formally diagnosed, my husband had terrible dreams with the same reactions as your husband is having. He wasn't on any memory enhancing drugs, only Zoloft, at the time. It was horribly frightening to me because he would be so angry in his dreams. I finally moved into another bedroom and stopped "sleeping" (I didn't really sleep) with him altogether. I didn't suspect AD at that time and he wasn't allowing me to go with him to see doctors then, so I don't know for sure that he ever talked with them about it. After a several months the dreams stopped. It has always been a mystery to me. If you find out what's happening, please share it.

Thinking of you and praying for you.

• By kaysp
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• October 22, 2012 at 9:33 am
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my husband does the same thing every nite,for a long time he has his bed and I have mine in the same room,I am awakened a lot but at least I dont get beaten.

• By Dubbie42
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• October 22, 2012 at 12:35 pm
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I've heard of a lot of caregivers changing their sleeping arrangements because of this problem. I personally haven't experienced it, but my husband isn't on any meds for the AD. I do think sometimes it is the meds that cause a lot of the problems people see in their loved one. You can always buy a baby monitor and put it in his room if their is not room to put a second bed in the room your husband sleeps in. Good luck.

• By mchasa
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• October 22, 2012 at 1:28 pm
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my husband dreams even when he falls asleep in the day, sometimes he talks in his sleep, waves his hands, smiles and frowns, when he talks I cannot make out what he is saying, at nite he will move hands and legs, but not hard. this does not happen everynite. in the daytines he will sometimes ask if one of our children has left and where they are. He does take aricept and namenda.

• By kaysp
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• October 22, 2012 at 9:24 pm
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My husband is on Aricept and meds for Parkinsons and his heart,he always asks for the children and lives in the past ,but i do believe the dreams are what has happened in the past.

• By andydandysmom
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• October 23, 2012 at 9:03 am
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My husband does the same thing. It has slowed down, but when he starts getting restless, I get ready to jump out of bed in a hurry. He can kick or punch pretty hard. Funny thing is he remembers his dream in the morning and will ask if he woke me up. Sometimes he wakes me with a loud yell. His last pill of the day is Mirtazipine and it does help him sleep. He missed taking it one night and didn't sleep at all. I chuckled when the doctor prescribed it because one of the vets where I work used it as an appetite stimulant for a cat. And yes, it has increased his eating. To that the doctor said let him eat. The day will come when he wont want to.