Are nightmares a side effect for Celexa

[ChelseaRB]

I have been on Celexa for a little over a month now, before that i was taking lexapro for my depression and anxiety disorder, and although both my anxiety level and my depression have gotten better i have been having vivid nightmares. Which makes my anxiety skyrocket right before bed, i have at least one nightmare per night i often have one wake up from it go back to sleep have anther and so on. I was just wondering if anyone knows if nightmares are side effects of this medication.

[thehatter]

I feel more lazy now than before i went on celexa...is it better to take celexa at night.

[Dean1972]

I have been on celexa right at a year now and I am having the dreams as well. some are good some are bad and they are all vivid. when i first started taking celexa things were great and well it was around march of 2010. the whole spring, summer and fall was good, but as soon as winter hit I got to where i dont want to get up at all and I feel so sleepy and lazy. so I went to puerto rico for 2 weeks and live was good. I was waking up early full of energy blah blah blah, but as soon as I returned to north carolina I fell back to being lazy and feeling very sleepy with vivid dreams. very crazy that your mind and body know your surrounds and the effects that has on you and your life

[ray92]

I've been taking celexa regularly for a year now and every night I have nightmares. graphic nightmares, and I wake up from one then fall asleep and another begins. My doctor tried to tell me that I have a sleep disorder and I should start taking something for it, but I've never ever had trouble sleeping before. I used to like having vivid dreams every night but then it turned into nightmares I feel like recently it's started to drive me nuts. some of them are just so disturbing I wonder how things could have gotten into my mind, I'm so confused, and my doctor acted like she'd never heard of celexa causing nightmares, but I've just looked it up and it seems pretty common.

[Paxiled]

You might try a homeopathic remedy called Calm's Forte before bedtime.  It might help with the restless thoughts.  I got vivid dreams on Paxil, but I kind of liked them, and I get some nightmares on Lexapro, at least those rare nights when I can get into a deep enough sleep for them, but nightmares are just your brain shedding superfluous matter, nothing to worry about.  They also make for good short stories, if you're into that kind of thing.

[claudicakes]

HEy
Ive been taking antidepressants for a while now and yes they do cause abnormal dreams...strange nightmares that make me wake up in a crappy mood, so vivid that are so hard to shake off...errr They come and go though, its usually near the beginning of the medicine...its perfectly normal, so dont get caught up on it, try to think happy thoughts before bed so that ur dreams are not so bad...I usually have nightmares about death and killing or something brutal..its creepy:( but they will fade dont worry!