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Took citlopram for 7 days and had terrible side effects thought my head was goin to explode and i was gunna be taken away by men in white coats,have lost 1/2 stone in 7 days,really thought i was goin mad, couldnt even get out of bed.Spoke to GP who has now changed my med to sertraline ,after citlopram experience really petrified of takin these tablets.Just want this dark cloud to lift...any positive stories would be helpful although i no everyone reacts differently to these meds. :?
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Just to say I found your post strangely reassuring. I took citalopram for around 2 weeks and to be honest thought I was going to die! I ended up shaking, feeling terrified, suffering awful nightmares, feeling sick... you name it. A good friend of mine who had also been on ADs made me talk to my doctor as he was so worried and I came off them and shortly after started on sertraline and they have been absolutely super! :-)
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50mg for a few months, then went up to 75 last May as I was dealing with a lot of stress at work. I've been on them 15 months altogether - longer than I intended but I'm getting married this June so didn't want to come off them during the run-up to the wedding! Hoping to come off them in July. They're doing the trick though. I was very anxious about just about everything before, feeling on the verge of panic over little things, unable to sleep, and really just not enjoying life at all. Something little would happen that would irritate most people but would send me spiralling into moods which were totally disproportionate to the situation. Now I feel like me again. I've taken on extra stuff at work and I'm enjoying my job and life in general, and although I get stressed I tend to get stressed to the same level as everyone raound me rather than how I was before. I'm having counselling as well though, and that has helped too, so depending on your circumstances it's something I'd recommend (I had a lot of concrete stuff I really needed to talk over which has affected me a lot over the years.)
Hope they work for you and the side effects are not too bad - I had awful nausea when I started them but it went away after two weeks or so.
Lots of love