Prazosin for Nightmares User Reviews

• Red...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• September 10, 2020

"I have a long history of being abused, neglected, bullied, ostracized, beaten, mugged, robbed, cut, chased by dogs, etc. Little did I know I had developed PTSD. My nightmares and night terrors were such that I felt it was better to just stay awake all the time, and this was relatively easy anyway since I also suffer from Bipolar I Disorder, the type where two hours of sleep is sufficient. Needless to say, sleep deprivation was destroying me slowly. A psychiatrist prescribed Prazosin. At first, I was skeptical - how can a pill make my nightmares stop? It sure did! I have to take 4mg every night, though, otherwise I'd be guaranteed to have nightmares. I now also want to take it for anxiety because Buspar is making me sleepwalk, and when I sleepwalk I buy things on the internet I don't remember the next day, like guitars, computers, a plane ticket to Vienna, etc."

• Kly...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• April 6, 2020

"I was prescribed 1 mg prazosin at night for nightmares. I have not tried any other medication for them before, so this is my first experience with a drug for this particular problem. I have nightmares every night, and it has gotten so bad that I wake up after each one in a full-blown sweat and have to change my bedding 2x a night. After starting this medication, I've had very brief dreams that I cannot recollect and have not woken up in a sweat for 4 days in a row now. This makes me super happy since my dreams are usually very vivid and long, and they stick with me for the entire day. The only downside is my partner has told me I move around in my sleep much more than usual. He has said this morning that last night I fidgeted for a long time after I fell asleep. I didn't know any of this and hope it was just a one-time thing and doesn't get worse."

• Kri...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• June 2, 2015

"My doctor gave me this med after a sexual assault and it stopped the nightmares the first time. I actually think because she prescribed it so quickly, it reduced my overall trauma with this event by not reliving it nightly."

• Chm...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• October 18, 2018

"When I got back from Iraq in 2005, I've had PTSD-related nightmares. I tried a lot of different prescriptions, but nothing helped, so I started self-medicating with alcohol. But last year, I had enough and went into treatment, and they prescribed me prazosin 1 mg. Like a lot of other people, it was amazing, I finally slept through the night for the first time since 2005. Thirteen years later, no more nightmares, and it let me just drift to sleep unlike other medications."

• Bob...
• December 31, 2014

"I was put on prazosin to help with nightmares that were causing sleep problems. The very first night I took it was the first night in three months I didn't have a nightmare and slept through the night. I have been on it for 4 1/2 months now and had no nightmares. I have had some odd and sexual dreams but nothing disturbing."

• Min...
• January 15, 2020

"I have been off and on Prazosin in the past few years at 1 and 2 mg. In between the times on Prazosin, I was also put on Cyproheptadine (also for nightmares). I have now switched back to Prazosin as it helps me fall asleep and at higher doses, does not give me violent or devastating nightmares, keeps me in bed all night (no getting up in the middle of the night snacking and sleeping the whole night through without waking up! In fact, on the contrary, I have real, pleasant, and sometimes joyous and funny dreams when I even talk them out loud (which is usually funny and realistic, but not scary or nightmarish at all). Love Prazosin, although I feel that I need a higher dose now."

• sle...
• April 15, 2015

"I had an event trigger increased anxiety, panic attacks, and recurring nightmares. The doctor let me know it sounded like PTSD and suggested I try prazosin in addition to my normal medications. I started off on the lowest end of the dosage, and after a couple of weeks, it was working well. Every few weeks, I found the nightmare would come back, and I did have to increase the dose. That would stop it for another few weeks or more, and when it happened again, I'd increase it again, and now I take the max dose (I think it's 10). It's improved my sleep since I'm not waking up from this panic dream every hour. I cannot recommend it enough for traumatic nightmares. I do have one side effect: if I smoke a cigarette in the morning, it almost always makes me puke. Why?"

• Tat...
• May 24, 2016

"I started this as a suggestion from my pharmacist since my psych NP was not finding anything to work for my childhood nightmares. Thank God for that angel pharmacist and thank God for this medication. Not one nightmare to feel weird about the whole next day and ruin my day! I have taken it now for about a month. Yesterday I tested it out and skipped a dose to see what would happen and sure enough, a nightmare. I hope they never stop making this medication. I have had zero side effects! I am so thrilled with this medicine and not sure why I had never heard of it before or why out of all of the doctors I have seen they have not suggested it? I am only on 1 mg, which is the lowest dose? It works! Save yourself the trauma and try it :)"

• Pet...
• July 26, 2015

"I experienced loud, shouting nightmares almost every night before I started Prazosin, which completely stopped all my nightmares immediately. It worked immediately, the very first night, and every night thereafter. On the very rare occasions when I have experienced another nightmare after I started taking, these were always nights when I forgot to take the Prazosin."

• Lau...
• February 15, 2015

"I'm 18, and I have post-traumatic stress disorder, along with major clinical depression and anxiety. I was treated in a ward, and they put me on this to help me with my nightmares. I've had nightmares for a long time. This helps a little. I used to have them every night, but now I have them about twice a week, maybe three times, but it's much better than every night."

• Uns...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• April 13, 2020

"I started taking prazosin while going through abuse and separation. I had terrible nightmares. It helped, but now I have unsettling dreams and talk, cry, and yell during my sleep. They are so vivid that I am physically acting them out during sleep, and this wakes me feeling disoriented. I've woken due to some as well, so shaken I had to sleep with the light on (seeing as well as feeling things touching me). I take them each night, and it doesn't help me fall asleep. I also take 10 mg of diazepam with it."

• Mil...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• December 31, 2015

"Been taking 1 mg of prazosin for the last 2 months for PTSD nightmares that were causing sleep problems. Nightmares stopped the first day I took it, but I experienced severe headaches, dizziness, drowsiness, nausea, and a lack of energy. As I got used to it, the symptoms gradually improved but did not go away completely. If I've been drinking, the symptoms will worsen, but it is bearable. Overall, my nightmares have become rare, and I can sleep through the night; the side effects are worth it."

• ido...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 5, 2020

"Jesus Christ, I'll keep my nightmares I had before taking this. 1 mg a night, and each night I took it, he said give it another try, and when I did, I couldn't wake myself up. It was like Freddy Krueger's nut house. I thought my nightmares were bad before and not being able to sleep or just drop from exhaustion, but I couldn't wake myself up. They were intensified! I am scared now they'll stay with me. Now that I have stopped taking it, I have some like that from time to time. So essentially, it made them worse."

• Jun...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 29, 2019

"Taken prazosin for two days. Started on 1 mg, then the second night 2 mg, taken 1 hour before bed. Could not sleep but was awake for two hours. Dreaming started immediately upon sleep, more vivid than what I had been having-nightmares and strange dreams all night long until I got up. My nightmares are worse on the medication prazosin. I was hoping it would completely stop them. I hope it hasn't caused my nightmares to be permanently worse."

• My ...
• September 27, 2015

"I have really bad night terrors from PTSD. I've tried tons of atypicals for it, but nothing worked. My doctor then had me try this, and once I got to the full dose, my night terrors have almost completely gone away, and I don't have all the side effects I had on the more standard treatments."

• Fea...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• September 5, 2020

"I was suffering from night terrors since 2017. And with my PTSD, it was the same night terror over and over. When I take the prazosin medicine as prescribed, I do not have nightmares, nor do I have night terrors, but when I begin to slack off or stop taking them altogether, the dreams come back even worse. So I give this drug two thumbs up."

• Fis...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• March 19, 2017

"I started taking Prazosin in 2012 when I was diagnosed with PTSD and Conversion Disorder. When I first started taking Prazosin, it helped me a lot, but like another poster stated, it did bring things out that had been pushed deep into my mind that I had been suppressing for years and didn't know it. I'm glad I take it and will continue taking it. I started 1 to 2 caps at bedtime. Then I was just upped to 3/1 mg. Only side effect I can think of is diarrhea from time to time. I hope this helps others and may God bless you on your journey to finding what works for you."

• Shi...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• May 19, 2019

"I have recurring nightmares due to PTSD, to the point of crippling daily trauma, and was prescribed prazosin. The nightmares continued but in a new light, not as recurring. I found an ability to control them and break free of them almost immediately after starting prazosin. When I miss a dose, the nightmares return in force, but it has been a LIFE CHANGER for my PTSD nightmares."

• WW1...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• February 18, 2020

"My night terrors aren't every night, but often they're multiple layers of night terrors in one night. I started taking this last week. The first few nights, I didn't notice anything, as I don't have night terrors every night. Last night, while on one mg of prazosin, I had multiple layers of night terrors throughout the night and am going on one hour of sleep today. I don't have another appointment until early March. Maybe I need a higher dose?"

• Sou...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• August 28, 2016

"It's been 6 months now and still works miracles for my PTSD night terrors! The combination I've found that works for me: read the Bible or listen to it from an app as you fall asleep, take 2 mg of Prazosin, and a combination of antidepressant (Prozac/fluoxetine) works best for me, along with an anti-anxiety med treatment for the day. My next step will be therapy when I'm ready to talk. Until then, this combination helps tremendously. Even with the other meds, I would wake up soaking wet and fighting for my life in my night terrors. Prazosin somehow helps tremendously and was my missing link."

• Kar...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• February 26, 2019

"I suffered from night terrors for more than 20 years. Nothing the psych docs gave me worked. The situation changed, and I had to change doctors, which is usually scary, right? It was the best thing ever, the new psych doc put me on prazosin 1 mg, and it worked. I had some breakthrough nightmares, increased the dose to 2 mg, and everything is great. No night terrors and no side effects."

• Don...
• March 13, 2020

"I have been on prazosin for a year now. It does not stop the nightmares, but I will say that it does put me physically in a dream so I can control myself and my movements rather than just watching things happen to me."

• C-N...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• December 10, 2015

"Started prazosin last December for PTSD and nightmares/night terrors. Tried doses 1-6 mg (as high as the psych would go). My nightmares started to slowly increase, and now, I suffer from chronic nightmares. Also started an increase in PTSD-related flashbacks and hallucinations (auditory and visual). Told the psych, and she had me stop it entirely, and I cannot shake the nightmares. I feel like I wasted so much money on a POS med that dumped all the adverse effects on my system. 0/10, would NOT recommend!"

• Car...
• May 15, 2016

"My partner was given these tablets for nightmares, chronic PTSD. He was already taking blood pressure tablets after enduring a heart attack 5 years ago. On the fourth day, he collapsed in the garden, could not speak, stand. He was a terrible grey color, and his lips turned blue. The paramedics took him to A&E. They discovered his blood pressure was dangerously low, he had a panic attack, and his heart beat slowed right down. He should not have been given this medication while on other blood pressure tablets, so be warned."

• amj...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 10, 2019

"I have been taking this medication, prazosin, for less than a month, have worked up to 5 mg over the weeks. I have never had worse or more vivid nightmares ever, and now it seems that I feel I'm still awake when they are happening, and I cannot wake up and stop them. My partner has told me that she has never seen me in so much distress since taking this medication. Even last night, I felt as though I was experiencing hallucinations and sounds of static in my head. I thought I was awake but unable to communicate my need for help, my partner said I was clearly sleeping and in distress. I awoke feeling like I was having a heart attack. I'm not sure what to do now."