hi
sorry for the late reply, i have not been on much this weekend, its been a bit busy!
firstly i beleive dreams can b interpreted, and they r trying to tell us something, mostly something that bothering us in our subconcious, so yes worry about ur pain could b part of it.
secondly i dont know what meds u r on, but i take tramadol and thats supposed to cus dreaming in itself. i however have not noticed any differences i can pinpoint to the the tramadol tho.
thirdly when i am in a lot of pain, (this has been explained to me by my dr as have been dx as suffering from sleep deprevation) there r different levels of sleep, theres the deep sleep which we all need, this is the one thats supposed to make us wake up feeling refreshed like we have had enough sleep, and amongst others theres the dream state, which in people like us can be induced by bein in pain and not properly sleeping. i sure hope this makes sense.
my dreams too (well the ones i remember) r of someone/something trying to get me and very often i cannot move or function.
now i hope this next bit isnt getting too deep, but i had a while a couple years ago where i was having such bad bad dreams, i was too scared to go to sleep, they were everynite. the only way i could break them was to, frstly try and work out what might b bothering me to make my subconcious do this. secondly i had (its takes a bit of practice) work out a "trigger" word/or action (something very real to u) i could use to break the dream. this in fact worked as i could not work out for the life of me what was bothering me. hence the bad dreams finally stopped. i have done this ever since
take care
heather
