A little while back, I started taking antidepressants - generic Prozac, to be specific. And when I started it, it honestly helped out a lot with my depression and aggression. However, after some time I noticed that I had a really bothersome side effect from it.
As I've explained before, I only have nightmares. I nearly never have good, simple nice dreams. But over time, I learned to merely forget them as soon as I woke up. When I started taking the generic pills, I started remembering my nightmares.
ALL OF THEM.
I woke up mentally exhausted, and even though the pills mellowed me out, I sometimes woke up sobbing because of the nightmares. They were as vivid as always, and just as violent, but now I couldn't wake myself up from them and I couldn't forget them.
The worst one that I had had a very disturbing ending.
People broke into my house and killed my entire family before my eyes, and I ran away, trying to save myself from the carnage. I ran, ran, and as I'm talking I can remember every portion of this nightmare. At some point, I hopped from vehicle to vehicle, trying to take refuge because they were still chasing me. I tucked myself away in the back of a van, hidden in a freezer, and then begged an elderly couple to hid me in their old car.
Then, late at night while I was hiding in their car, the flashes of headlights from the people who were chasing me shined on me and I couldn't shy away from it. I ran out of the car, and they started chasing me. I made it to a chain link fence and collapsed on it, unable to run anymore.
The main person who'd been chasing me walked calmly over, knelt down beside me, stared and smiled. Feeling mad, I started crying, and then I smiled.
And the dream ended.
This is the one that I woke up crying from. After this happened, I started sharing what was happening with my family, as well as other personal effects the pills were having on me, and we decided that I should change medications.
I started my new antidepressants a few days ago. And its effects are much faster than the other pills, which is already a grand improvement. My appetite is shot to hell though. I'm forcing myself to eat, and to be honest - I want to eat, but it's not good for my health, and I was excessively eating in the first place to cope with my depression. So this is a change that I need to manage, without taking it too far.
What I want to ask is: has anyone taking any kind of medication had this kind of strange side effect, or another really out of the ordinary side effect to a medication? I never knew a medication could do something like this, but if that's the case, maybe there's something out there that'll decrease the amount of nightmares that I have every night.
Thanks for reading, my friends.
