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I am taking Gleevec 400 and a few other meds. No matter what time I go to bed I can't sleep through the night and I dream too much.

[PhilB]

It could be the drugs (I've yet to find anything that isn't a possible Gleevec side effect), but the prime suspect has to be the stress.  If so, it WILL get better, you WILL get through this and you WILL get to the stage where this disease is an annoyance rather than an obsession.

I ended up getting sleeping pills prescribed early on as I just couldn't switch off and sleep.  I still get one prescription a year for them and take half a tablet now and again, but believe me things will get better.

[CML2012]

Sometimes you just need to wind down before going to bed. You may want to consider a muscle relaxer instead of a sleeping pill.

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If I recall correctly it started when I started the Gleevec.  I may have to get something because I need my rest so I can work.  I have anxiety meds but they don't really make me sleepy or the Gleevec is dominating.  I went back to the gym this week and don't have to wear a mask any more so my life already starting to feel more like before CML.

[mariebow]

  I have had this trouble ever since I started taking tasigna, and I have heard others in past posts that they also suffer from insomnia while on their leukemia meds, and some say they take sleep aids like benadryl,generic benadryl, tylenol pm etc, but lately I have been hearing on the news that those sleep aids have been proven to cause early dementia, and I was taking the generic benadryl to help me sleep, and I sleep better with those aids, but I have since changed to an herbal sleep aid, because I know this my brother had gotten dependant on those generic beadryl that they have at the dollar  stores, and he told me that he had to have those to sleep, well he was diagnosed with colon cancer stage four, but he had gotten very bad dementia, and could not even make up his bed or work a remote control to his tv, and he went down so quick, so I do believe in those sleep aids causes early dementia, just my opinion and he was only 61 years old.

[Dom]

I was having night sweats and very vivid confused dreams before starting gleevec. I believe it stopped within a month. I always thought it was a side effect of cml, not the drugs. My advice is, stay off the sleep aids. I take a cup of chamomile tea at night with the TV off.

Now, after a year on Gleevec, I suddenly had two nights in a row with the sweats / dreams. I'm due for another visit with my oncologist soon -- I'll have to bring it up.

[Busa]

I take my Gleevec at @6pm and sleep like a baby, almost too much 8-10 hours a night, if that helps.

[Billie Murawski]

Hi MDJ,

 I haven't been able to sleep for a couple years, I'll be so tired when I go to bed then I get brain clutter that I can't shut off if I do doze off I have the weirdest dreams. If I could get a good nights sleep I probably wouldn't be so tired during the day. I have rls and it drives me nuts, magnesium works great for muscle cramps but it doesn't keep the rls away. I figure if I could start sleepwalking I'd get some good rest and exercise too.

[gerry]

Maybe try some meditation. I keep thinking it is something I should learn to do.

[hannibellemo]

Let me know how that works for you, Billie! I often thought that my racing heart during an anxiety attack should count as aerobics! 

[Billie Murawski]

Let me know how that works for you, Billie! I often thought that my racing heart during an anxiety attack should count as aerobics! 

I always think the same too,it has to burn calories.  We can write a book called anxiety aerobics!