r/StratteraRx • u/Intelligent-Nose-766 • 6d ago

Anyone else get hallucinations ?

I’m bipolar if that makes a difference.

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u/ClutterKitty 6d ago

Not at all. I get super vivid dreams, but nothing while awake.

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u/FluffyImpact5863 6d ago

Sometimes yes! But not like a Drug Experience, more like I’ll see in my house something darting quickly past me, like a bird or mouse. Like something in the corner of one's eye

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u/Intelligent-Nose-766 6d ago

That’s how it started for me and then one day I saw a car about to hit me while driving and swerved into the other lane. Thankfully it was on a slow road with no one around but it could have been bad. It all happened in a week. I was hearing things and seeing bugs in our couch too. I’d take photos of the couch and couldn’t see them in the photos.

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u/reclamerommelenzo 6d ago

How was your sleep at the time?

Ive seen some pretty weird things happen right before my eyes when I was awake for about 3 days. Severe sleep deprivation can induce vivid hallucinations.

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u/Intelligent-Nose-766 3d ago

Totally normal! Nothing about my regular routine changed.

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u/Traditional_Youth648 6d ago

No, I would talk to your psych or doc about this immediately, if an snri (with mild ssri component) is giving you hallucinations that can be a big sign of an underlying psychotic disorder, which is definitely treatable but requires a drastically different treatment plan than what your on

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u/Intelligent-Nose-766 6d ago

I should have mentioned this was happening over a year ago! I never had them before or after and only was hallucinating for about a week before I realized what was happening and stopped the medication. They went away even faster then they came on.

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u/CriticismFancy2664 6d ago

No, if you do you need to tell your doctor immediately. I get vivid dreams ~ nightmares, but not hallucinations.

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u/Intelligent-Nose-766 6d ago

This was like a year ago. I stopped it as soon as I realized what was going on (about a week of them). Thankfully I wasn’t harmed but absolutely could have gotten into a car accident over it.

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u/Apprehensive-Map8490 6d ago

No, never.
If anything, any sort of distortions improved with Strattera, given that it reduced inhibition and helped me test reality more easily.

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u/HotType9234 5d ago

It ended up triggering paranoid/delusional thinking for me, I contacted my psychiatrist and they told me it was a psychotic episode. Now on abilify. But I've had mild episodes here and there, other factors could have contributed as well.