Does your medication give you nightmares?

I've been taking Prozac for over 6 months and it's helped with the worst of my original symptoms. But now I find it gives me horrendous nightmares. To the point I wait up every hour and have to check things with a torch to make sure it's all OK. Like the door's locked, it's 2015, I'm not a little girl anymore. All the nightmares relate to my abuser and they're getting worse. Is this the meds or that I'm talking about it for the first time in my life with a T or what? I can't function at work at this rate and I'm scared to sleep.

Any advice much appreciated, thank you.

I think it the combination of both. Working with the therapist and the medication. Talk with the therapist about changing the medication, it might help.

Ahhhh Lunesta! What wonderful hallucinations it gives!!! But it also gave me night terrors so I couldn't take it anymore. Bye bye colors no one in this world has seen without it... bye bye green luminescent butterflies

I get nightmares from Inderal when I take it three times a day. Once or twice a day and I'm a lot better, although I still get nightmares. But I have a fraction of what I used to. I also get night terrors maybe once a month.

I too believe it might be a combination of both.

However, I'm very glad you wrote this post, because now I don't feel so peculiar anymore. I have terrible nightmares which, from my pdoc's point of view, are caused by the SSRI's (I have tried several and am now on paroxetine). I thought I was the only one with this side effect, but now I see I'm not.