11 weeks Today

thanks for that, having one of those days, i need reassurance x

I know exactly how you feel x I'm 5 weeks into sertraline after swapping from citalopram and feel horrific so know that feeling of needing some reassurance too x

blips are really normal too x when you feel like you are going backwards just remember it's a blip and stay the course because it will pass

doctors are too quick to increase the dose when it happens

it will settle and the setbacks will become less and less and happen less often then one day......they wont come back x citalopram works if given enough time x

how long did it take for you? or didnt it work & that is why you changed meds?

citalopram worked amazing for me for 5 years and then pooped out and over a few months I could feel myself getting worse until it got too much so they introduced mirtazipine too to see if that would help.

it made me 10x worse so stopped the mirt and increased my citalopram to 40mg. 40mg was too high for my body so after 12 weeks and no improvement we switched to sertraline. x

good luck, i know many women on it, im going through perimenopause & am on a facebook group & the majority of women that take it have success, i tried it before citalopram, but had to come off at 5 weeks, as it made my symptoms much worse, we are all so different x

how long did you settle on citalopram, first time you took it. ?

first time I took citalopram it worked pretty quickly x kicked in at about 6 weeks.

the second time it way longer about 12 before I started to feel improvements x so it can take a very long time but it will work so dont panick if you can, easier said than done though I know x

thank you its good to know it can work for some people so that's good x

is that true, its like starting again. strange because after the initial dose change, i felt better. starting to get worried now, as been not so good for about a week or more now. xxx

Hey I have been feeling the same been on citalopram 40mgs for 3 weeks last week was on holiday and felt great and proper happy soon as I came home an had all normal duties I felt crap my anxiety went threw the roof again and my depression was bad aswell slightly loosing hope I know it takes time but how can i get happy for a whole week then feel s**t again is this normal do u think need some reassurance!!

Thanks Rob, been better today apart from a couple of strange anxiety spikes, accompanied by that horrible whoosh feeling in the stomach

it sounds like what I get is it like an adrenaline surge or rush? x they are horrible but completely harmless if it is x just the meds reaching its peak in your blood x

that feeling will come and go less and less and then eventually will

disappear x

its the worst feeling, and even worse if accompanied by a random scary thought, i get awful intrusive thoughts along with high anxiety. the worst symptom. x

omg I know exactly how you feel! it comes with a horrible thought and it is just pure dread isn't it.

it makes me burst into tears automatically because of how horrible it feels x it's really not very nice at all x

my brain has been very unkind today, ive had a bad day, as soon as the anxiety is bad, the thoughts rear their head & even though i know it is anxiety, its the one symptom that can still scare me, have you read - overcoming intrusive thoughts, by martin seif, its a good read for understanding, but when anxious, our brains go into anxious thinking & rationale thought leaves, at least mine does. ive had this on off, since teenage years,, after childbirth & now in perimenopause, seems hormonal shifts set it off, have been fine for weeks, but anxious day & bham they are back x

ive been told by a cbt therapist, its an ocd thing & takes longer for ssris to work, think it took about 3-4 months last time on 20, then 40, so will see what the next few weeks bring x

one thing it proves though, is how much better ive been without realising it x