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.

My mother is on citalopram.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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