@santosha I had a very hard time falling asleep so I took melatonin. I knew the potential risks with my meds, but I was so exhausted. I took your advice and stopped taking melatonin, and the nightmares stopped. Thanks, as always, for your valuable insights.

One interesting thing I heard today from my neurologist was that your seizures can flare from a wide variety of normal events, but they can boost your meds temporarily just until things stablize again. In other words, a temporary adjustment. Previously, my neurologists would look at any flare as being long-term and would increase my dosages or add a new med. So a short-term flare suddenly had a long-term response.