re: Strangest side effect you had from a prescribed drug?

Hiccups with any type of steroids, usually lasts about 36-48 hours. I also had hiccups for a day after open heart surgery. Not fun.

The malaria pills we had to take in Afghanistan gave me freaky arse dreams the night I took them. It was a well known phenomenon as we referred to them as crazy pills.

When I was in 8th grade, some pimple pills I got made me need to shite all the time. Whether I needed to or not, I always felt like it. Weird.

Serotonin Syndrome one night after I had just started taking Zoloft for anxiety. I had went to bed, and apparently woke up about an hour later with intense hallucinations and paranoia. I remember the experience and it all felt real in my head at the time, but at the same time almost like a dream. I thought people were breaking into the house and ended up walking back and forth by the windows with my German Shepherd and pistol at my side for at least 4 hours.

Kind of glad it was just me home that night so no one saw just how crazy I must have seemed, but looking back it was extremely dangerous and stressful, and it ultimately made me realize I can handle my shite and don't need the Zoloft anymore.

EDIT: Leading up to the Zoloft, I had just tried Lexapro but had switched after I realized I couldn't hold a piss on it. It was so embarrassing as a 22 year old, but luckily my gf at the time was about to graduate nursing school so she understood haha. So I had zero luck with either SSRI's