night walker...

[Madison (kiara jamie)]

so i just recently passed my 5 months mark on hrt and just recently in the past week have realized some strange things happening to myself

for one i think i have been sleepwalking or partial sleep walking, the other night i woke up with my pillow case completely removed and stuffed in a ball under my pillow, and then last night i started(i have a speaker for my computer mounted to the wall next to my head in my bed) untangling the wire for my mouse around my speaker in a dream and then woke up to doing it also in real life

secondly the other day i was lying in bed and when i reached across my face i felt a stabbing pain in my left eye, it hurt so bad i couldn't open my eye for about a minute, and when i did i found that the veins were irritated, and for the past couple days it hasn't gone away but it causes me to feel like my eye has a slight amount of pressure on it enough to cause eye strain, im thinking that possibly i had a blood clot form on my eye and that is something that i believe i should be worried about due to my hrt medications

another irritating thing is that i find lately that i have a problem with lactose intolerance and eating pork, whenever i eat them now i get the most sulphuric gas i have ever smelt, and it seems like its never ending,

basicly i was wondering if anyone has had similar reactions like these on their hrt medications, and just to clarify i am taking bio identical estrace and cyproterone acetate

[Felix]

I'm obviously not on the same kind of hrt as you are, but I am an active sleeper. I talk in my sleep and occasionally partially act out my dreams.

Not too long ago I dreamed the BBC was broadcasting clips of the screams of individuals suffering in subterranean hellscapes (lol I though they were so crass to do so), and I went to change the station, and the next station was playing the same thing...I woke up falling out of my bed, clutching the clock radio, which was blaring static.

I frequently wake myself up talking or laughing or whatever, basically kinda blurring the lines between my sleeping and waking worlds.

I started hrt a few weeks ago, and I've definitely seen an increase in my odd sleep behavior, but then it's also a stressful time of year for me.

I don't know where I'm going with this, or how it relates to your situation, but I have weird sleep stuff and it often flares up when I'm experiencing physical changes (i.e. it increases when I have surgery or change my eating habits, etc).

[Madison (kiara jamie)]

thats hilarious, i can't say ive fallen out of my bed or clutched the clock radio lol but then again there is still time lol

[stldrmgrl]

secondly the other day i was lying in bed and when i reached across my face i felt a stabbing pain in my left eye, it hurt so bad i couldn't open my eye for about a minute, and when i did i found that the veins were irritated, and for the past couple days it hasn't gone away but it causes me to feel like my eye has a slight amount of pressure on it enough to cause eye strain, im thinking that possibly i had a blood clot form on my eye and that is something that i believe i should be worried about due to my hrt medications

Definitely could be a blood clot.  I'd most certainly get that checked out as soon as you can.

As per your other happenings, I cannot totally relate.  I've been on HRT for five months as well, and the biggest sleep-related change I find myself experiencing is insomnia.  When I actually do sleep, however, I have noticed my dreams are consistently violent in nature, whereas they seldom used to be.  Though whether any of this is related to HRT or not, I cannot say.

[kelly_aus]

I've had some insomnia.. And some plain weird dreams, but nothing quite like you describe..

[Madison (kiara jamie)]

a wierd dream i do remember was that i had my new bandage dress on and was buying my salted carmel mocha at starbucks and i could tell the guy behind me was checking out my bum, and i supposedly felt creeped out by him(im still lesbian biased), and when i woke up i was feeling confrontational to and imaginary person, i felt like now that i was in control of my body i would almost get in his face and tell him im not into creepy boys, but you know crazy bitch was what that was lol, thank god i didn't do that irl