Hi All! This is my first post on Reddit! So I'm about 3 months into Sertraline for anxiety and OCD. I feel it has helped a lot already with both of those. However, I'm having a really weird experience during the day where I'll just randomly starting recalling a dream. I don't even know if I've actually had that dream or if it just feels that way. I can't QUITE recall details of it afterward, and the episodes last maybe 15 seconds? It's more intense than just memories. However, I'm still fully conscious during the whole thing. An important note is that I'm also a little over a year postpartum, and for probably the last 7 months or so, I was waking up on average twice a night, so I'm definitely in at least a mild sleep deficit. We've improved in the last couple weeks, but I'm still catching up. I'd been inclined to blame the Sertraline for these episodes, but I also experienced them pre-meds, right after I found out I was pregnant. Something about telling people made me feel almost more stressed than I'd ever been, and on our way to make the first announcement is when I had the first 'episode'. It happened again a handful of times, but eventually stopped after a few weeks. A couple weeks ago when the sleep deprivation was bad is when they started happening again, and it has now been happening several times a week. I have no other alarming symptoms, however, I end up reddit threads of people who have seizures and I am spiraling into thinking I have maybe some sort of partial/focal seizure. I know I need a neurologist to confirm this, which I am looking into.
Sorry for the long post, but does anyone else on Sertraline/Zoloft experience something like this? I did find a post or two from several years ago that seems to describe something similar, but I don't know, just looking for more reassurance that maybe whatever this is is more benign than I'm hoping. Thank you in advance!