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09-29-2011 05:35 PM #1Bird Brain Achievements:
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Antidepressants having permanent REM-supressing effects?
A few years back, I had a very good chance of getting accidental SP episodes when I'd simply lie down and relax - on my side, stomach, you name it. A few weeks into this, I ended up going on prozac for a few months, just for "mood issues" which was totally unrelated to the SP. Well, the frequency of my SP episodes declined sharply a few days into it. I knew this had to do with the fact that many antidepressants can prohibit REM, or suppress it.
I've been off the medication for over two years, but I haven't had one accidental SP session since I started taking it. I'm not sure if it could've affected my intentional inductions, because I started purposefully entering SP (WILDing) after I went off it. But I'm pretty sure it has. If I hadn't taken it, could I possibly be more capable of entering SP on command? I've had a decent number of WILDs but I have a feeling that with the amount I relax, and keep my awareness, there should be more.
So that bring me to my main question - for anyone who has experience or knowledge in the matter, is there a possibility that the medication has permanently affected my REM?We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
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09-29-2011 05:43 PM #3Bird Brain Achievements:
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Interesting. I've never really experienced anything like a rebound effect, but maybe it's because I came off it slowly, over the course of two weeks.
We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
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10-01-2011 12:29 AM #4Member
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I wouldn't rule it out. We discover more side effects of antidepressants all the time. They really muck things up, but I guess that is the point.
It might just be that you are getting older. I don't get spontaneous sleep paralysis the way I used to, either.
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getting older?, she's only 17 !
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10-02-2011 01:39 AM #6Member
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17 is older than 16
Good point, though. You should be peaking right now, Puffin!
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10-02-2011 05:39 AM #7
I wouldn't worry about it, Puffin. My brother has been on antidepressants for almost two decades and he's still excellent at both DILD and WILD (he's a natural, the jerk!). The medication he takes is an SSRI, which probably the most common type of antidepressant.
As to your absence of SP -- this is actually very normal as you age. Young people tend to get SP a lot more than adults. So it's not unusual for you to stop having SP frequently as you get into your late teens and twenties. When I was a teen, I had SP all the time. Now it almost never happens on its own.
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