Crazy dreams, anyone else having this?

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Hi again, I've been on 50mg sertraline and 80 mg propranolol for over a month now, for bad social anxiety and depression. I only take the propranolol in the morning before i go to work or if i have to go out somewhere or if i have visitors coming etc, so i only take one of those a day, occasionally 2. The sertraline i also take in the morning. I have started to notice a slight change - on some days at work i feel almost like a normal funtioning human being and i am actually able to talk to people and be around people without having a complete irrational mentdown. Yay! This is not every day, i still have bad days and i still feel very low but if it is a sign of things to come i am feeling rather hopeful. Side effects haven't been too bad, the worst one i would say was the tired feeling and just feeling very out of sorts sometimes, kind of dizzy and fuzzy headed, off balance etc. But now i have started to have really crazy dreams every single night for the past week or so. I am managing to sleep eventually, although it does take me a while to drop off, but it's just the dreams now. Not nightmares as such, just absolutely weird and crazy dreams, every single night now, is anyone else having this problem?

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    hi rachel, yes i had some wonderful dreams when i was on sertraline and slept much better, i'm off it now about 6 weeks, not sleeping as good and no dreams
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    Hi Rachael,

    I've been on sertraline 50mg for two & half months now and I totally know where you're coming from, most nights I have weird dreams & some are so obscure I can't imagine where they come from although, over time I've noticed sometimes the tiniest  small thing that may happen during the day can have a little connection - when you think back on your dreams try hard to remember the previous day & see if there's connection to something however small it may be. As you said these are not nightmares & not really a problem at all, infact I strangely find myself looking forward to the next nights dream to see what drama I'll find myself in! 

    Sweet Dreams Ange x

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      i can related to that, miss my dreams now i'm off the tabs
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    Hi Rachel, my doc tells me I've been on sertraline for over 4 months now, I went to see him.today as I feel like I'm not sleeping properly and some of my dreams are vivid to say the least, not scary but wow, weird. Doc thinks I should start to reduce and get back off the drug, I'm on 50mg, he suggested splitting tabs to 25mg. I'm really not sure, scared that I may begin feeling not so good again. Am thinking I may just put up with the zany dreams.

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