Citalopram. Anyone else fed up with the strange vivid dreams?

[Sparklingbrook]

My Gp warned me about this, but I have had a whole week of them this week. Most of them have been revisiting my childhood home and being with now deceased relatives.
It all seems so real.

[Lynne1Cat]

I've been on 20mg of Citalopram for years. Sometimes I lower the dose to 10mg. It makes no difference - I've had strange dreams for all those years. Some are odd, some funny, some sad. I don't bother as I usually forget the dreams a day or 2 later

[didyouseetheflaresinthesky]

They went away after about a month forme but them the hallucinations started and they just got worse so I gave up. Took 6 weeks after coming off it for them to stop.

[HarryD89]

Oh wow, that's pretty insane. Okay, I'll do just that. Thank you.

[SpyderCanopus]

I kept going for about four months and it never ended. I started cutting the tiny things in half for a week then fourths and finally quit. It was rough coming off them.

During my time on this drug I got in two bar fights because my ego was so big. Broke nose, six stitches in leg, busted open eye. There were even some blackouts.

Get off it before it’s too late.

[HarryD89]

Hey, I've recently started on it. Very vivid dreams every single night and yeah, painful erections in the morning.
It's really bizarre and frustrating. I literally just woke up from a dream where I lept through time to 1939 England and it was a nightmare, I couldn't get anybody to believe me I was travelling cross country with a soldier and then i lept forward in time a few years and we were fighting Nazis in France. They were extremely violent. I dunno if I have the patience for this, did any of your dreams eventually stop?

[SpyderCanopus]

I have taken it in the morning for over two weeks now, but my dreams are making life hard. Exhausted from them. Last night my children were drowning and I couldn’t move fast enough in the water to save them while they were under. I have found playing podcasts while I sleep helps, but as soon as they’re over I wake up. It will feel like I’ve been asleep all night, but it’s only as long as the podcast stops. So I put on auto play YouTube Joe Rogan since they’re hours long.

This is in addition to having an erection every time I wake up, which admittedly is starting to get painful.
(Weird combo to have with dreams about your dying children)

I’m about to give up on this, since you guys are all saying it never goes away.

[strugglingstepdad]

My mother is on citalopram.

She's had some seriously weird dreams which she takes great pride in telling me about!

[Leah87xx]

I have been on these for afew months, I recently forgot to pick up prescription so I was with out for afew days! The dreams have been horrendous waking me up every hr hoping once I start taking them again they will stop! I'm a rite grouchy nark wen tired

[meno12]

Been taking citalopram for quite a while - the dreams are horrendous and I wake feeling as if I'd been punched in the ribs (only way I can describe it). Going to talk to doctor as it never gets better - maybe there could be an alternative. Nobody warned me this could happen but, having read these messages, that may be my problem.

[Yqueque]

I feel like I made some kind of breakthrough, I have PTSD and it's been a while since I knew I was dreaming when I was dreaming. I used to be able to signal myself in a dream so I'd know I was dreaming then intentionally in the dream go flying around.

[Yqueque]

I was without pills for several days and had very unsettling dreams.

[Yqueque]

I was without pills for several days and had very unsettling dreams.

[fortifiedwithtea]

I've been on Citalopram for years. My dreams are very vivid and I do remember them. I think I remember my dreams because I can't sleep properly.

I like my weird dreams. I can usually work out what event the previous day triggered them. They are really bizarre and I enjoy bewildering/boring my family with the detail but then mine aren't disturbing.

Sorry for anyone going through distressing dreams.

[Sparklingbrook]

It was all very odd isn't it Annah. I have been off the Citalopram since Christmas last year now, and the dreams are no more.

My GP did warn me, so it wasn't a total shock.

[Annah153]

Iv just started taking them, had about 5 days worth so far.
Iv always had quite vivid dreams but I noticed a change almost immediately, Im glad it's not just me, my doctor never mentioned anything about them to me though so I was quite worried.
It feels like all my worries are being suppressed and coming out in my dreams, I often wake up in hot sweat short of breath, it's fairly distressing x

[Saltire]

I take mine in the morning

[Sparklingbrook]

I swapped from taking them at night because GP said definitely don't because of sleep disruption.

[UtterlyButterly]

I take them in the morning also, has anyone else got any experience of taking them at night?

I too am always boiling hot. I sweat a lot more than I used to.

I don't mind the dreams I just find them odd. I am glad to see it is the meds though!

[Sparklingbrook]

Oh zoo that's . I haven't had any truly awful ones yet.

[liveinazoo]

i take citalopram.have done on and off 4yrs.horrid dreams of my dc be hit by lorries carreering onto the pavement.seeing dead relatives.allsorts.dont sleep through anymore either ,waking 2 or more times a night.
if wasnt for fact im a nightmare without them i wouldve given up ages ago

[Sparklingbrook]

The good news is that the being boiling hot first thing in the morning seems to have gone though. I used to get up, have a shower, and by the time I was dressed my face was sweating.

[HotDAMNlifeisgood]

You know, I would quite like to revisit my time with Grandpa

[HotDAMNlifeisgood]

(the drawback of taking them in the morning for me was that I was exhausted and groggy all day, so I switched to taking them before bed, had vivid dreams every night, and then a day where I could be bright and functional. YMMV, of course.)