I have always had occasional nightmares…bad dreams,but these are especially evil and very scary. Usually nightmares font even wake me up and I will talk about them after I get up.
But starting about two years ago, right after I had my right knee replaced, I started having horrendus nightmares. about chopping up bodies and very bloody massacres. I felt it was the anesthesia I had received and after about a year they subsided. Then I decided to get the left knee done. The nightmares returned.
Its been a year now and again the nightmares are receding.
Has anyone else experienced this afte anesthesia
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Hi Jim
I am a trauma therapist. Lots of things we experience can be traumatic, even if we think that we have managed to cope with something okay at the time. Your nightmares may be anaesthetic related, but I also want to suggest the potential that they are trauma related. EMDR therapy is a great way to work with traumatic nightmares. Take a look at www.emdrassociation.org.uk to find out more about it. Hopefully it resolves soon for you.
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