Hey all,

I have been diagnosed SAI for approx 8 years, on 25mg HC and Fludro and I'm in the UK.

I have been having something happen a lot more frequently recently - waking up shaking quite badly. Along with weakness, slightly slurring, a bit 'fog brained', hot and other lovely things we tend to experience. The shaking/trembling is the worst symptom.

It happened again this morning. I have taken an extra 10mg, made sure to eat and had a coffee so it's starting to settle. I do have a few of the stressors going on - upset stomach for a few days, it's hot in my flat and ac unit got turned off, terrible sleep for the past few days and something that is causing huge anxiety. I don't always have all of the same things going on for it to happen but there is one thing recently that always happens.

Very vivid, very stressful dreams.

For at least the last year I always/nearly always have one before one of these mornings. I have them other times and I don't have this issue when I wake up. Has anyone else experienced this? Like I said - it's become much more frequent but I've had vivid dreams since being diagnosed with PTSD nearly twenty years ago. How many have these horrible waken ups and how often? What kinds of things do you do to settle it? Guess I'm hoping to know I'm not alone in this and looking for any tips/suggestions etc.

Thanks for reading. Hope it makes sense, brain is still slow!