Anyone NOT had any side effects on Citalopram?

indeed Matilda - no Masterchef is a good thing! It's Wiil i am's teeth that bother me (typical eh?) I'm convinced he's on something stronger than all of us are too! Good stuff doing a roast, I used to love that as a kid. I could do with going back to those days .... I've just made a Thai red curry (not desperately traditional I know but what the family wants .... the family gets)

It makes me feel like I'm losing it too Spence but from my studies I do remember that people who are genuinely "losing it" don't actually realise so none of us are going insane and it is a very common side effect of all SSRI's Dreadful to try and deal with though.

Mike - hope things are going well today and good news you enjoyed your night out!

The guitar making used to be great. It's an artistic thing and kept me calm and interested. Now sadly I couldn't care less about it. Well, thats not strictly true. For some reason thinking of doing it seems to make me feel stressed. Even having to sit and deal with the house bills today did the same thing - made me jumpy and shaky. I am however having small periods of feeling fine which I'm clinging onto. I just get this damned "nervous" feeling all the time.

I found this post from a while ago, in fact when I opened my browser for some reason it opened on this page with this post in the middle. Maybe it's fate for us?! :

Haven't been here for a while but it means things are moving in the right direction for me. started Cit. end of October 20mg, moved to 30 after about 3 weeks as didn't see any improvement. It started working after about 8 weeks, in the meantime horrible side effects, no sleep, no appetite, lost about 2 stones in a month, dry mouth, stomach ache, diarrhoea, increased anxiety and so on. I feel wonderful now, went back to work full time, go to CBT every week and enjoy my life. For those who don't believe in Cit. please, give it a chance, it might take a bit longer but it will work in the end. By the way, I decreased from 30 to 20 and it's the right dose for me.

take care all,

Rick

OMG! That sounds awful Rick. Do you know if it disappears after the 8 week mark ? I start week 5 tomorrow but will find out in the morning if I need to increase from 10 to 20 mg & I can't help worrying about the day I never saw, lol

Loulyn x

To be honest I have followed these posts for some time and while I realise they are important if you are going through some emotional stuff with anxiety etc. I also cannot stress enough that if you dwell too much and start to over analyse every feeling or emotion you are actually feeding this anxiety and keeping it going. Now that might not go down too well with some people but in my experience (and I've had plenty) this is true. My advice is to try and not give the anxiety an audience just say I'm too busy for this today I don't have time go away and quickly move on to some other train of thought. Now this might sound easy but it takes a bit of practice and practice makes perfect. Trust me there is life after anxiety. Good luck everybody.

That's just the kind of attitude you need to learn to adopt loulyn to move forward. I have been there wore the tee shirt etc. so I do know what I am talking about. I would never try and put anybody down and dismiss their felings because they are very real but as I've said don't give them houseroom.

Hi loulyn. I agree that this is the problem with forums, they are a good support but hearing people (me included) talking about symptoms and side effects can be scary if you are not aware of them. It doesn't mean you will get them too although I can't talk about this as whenever someone says they've got something I'll think ive got it too.

I'm 5 weeks in today, can't believe I've probably got at least another 3 weeks before I start to feel better.

I have managed to concentrate on a magazine for about an hour today! X

Big mag would love to hear some more words of wisdom from you please 😊

Matilda76 I'm not that wise just trying to help and draw from my own life experiences. I know how difficult it can be and how irrational anxiety makes you.

Thanks girls, I appreciate that 😊

Matilda I am exactly a week behind you so hopefully we'll both feel good very soon. I've decided to adopt the approach that when I have a dodgy moment that it IS only a moment & will soon pass. I know & appreciate that some of us will be having a rubbish time at the mo but let's try & post happy positive stuff too & you never know, it could make us all feel goooood 😉 👍

Hi all,

It's been a few days since my last post so I thought I would give you an update of how my stag went. Well I got myself so worked up I was sick with stress and was giving diazapram from doctor to chill me out if it got out of hand.

Well I couldn't have been more wrong and waisted so much of my time worring. I had the most amazing stag with great family and friends. All of whom understands what I was going through and made me feel I great. I was up at 6am yesterday morning till lunch time today in celebrations at it was amazing.

I am so happy with myself that I got through it and I didn't use the diazapram at all and I even had a few beers which I'm feeling today but you know what it was worth every minute of it.

I now have a new perspective on my anxiety and I am not going to let it take over me. I'm starting gym tomo and going to get myself back to normal. Cit is working and start group Counceling on weds day which I am looking forward to so it's all upwards from here.

Might have a few glitches along the way but nothing getting in my way now I am going to kill this anxiety. So stay positive people and take each day as it comes. Appreciate very little step closer you get to normality as it is only around the corner.

Be strong

Paul

Excuse the typos as I'm writing from my phone

just dont watch Masterchef... thats the answer lol

on the other hand, it does help to share experience. knowing a symptom is a side effect can be very reassuring. Mutual support is also more than useful for many people so I wouldn't agree totally.

Positive thinking is of course vital and also very helpful. It can be a lonely thing going through the initial effects so sharing on this forum plus management of train of thought together is a great way to manage a difficult time.

I hope we all have a nice evening... into another week closer tomorrow :-)

take care,

Rick

fantastic Paul, thats excellent that you had a good time! Great to hear you're feeling good and positive. Now you've got one hell of a lot to look forward to!

Paul very well done on the stag and not having to take the diazepam! That's brilliant news and a great change if attitude that we can all learn something from.

I agree we should all try and be a bit more reassuring on here. Anxiety is a very lonely thing and hard for people who have never suffered it to understand. I think however we are all strong to have realised that we have a problem and we are doing something about it. Even if we do have to cope with watching Wallace and Torodde along the way Rick! Surely that should be reason enough to go and make them guitars so you don't have to watch that 😊