Anyone NOT had any side effects on Citalopram?

Hi all,

Feeling a little better, general anxiety seems to have improved loads but health anxiety is still there, even though I know there's nothing wrong with me. Not having panic attacks but wasn't really getting them much anyway. Definitely sleeping and eating better. I'm just hoping things will get even better soon so I'm more like the old me.

Xx

Hi Anne,

I have an ear spray for ear infection, just paracetomal for throat. Slowly and cautiously I think the citalopram is kicking in and the side effect are easing ( but not fully gone ). Glad you were here to give me the kick in the pants I needed.

I'm making the most of being a little better

xx

I newly got prescribed celexa 10 mg, I'm so nervous to take them after reading side effects...I' worry way to much! Any advice ?

Hi Manda,

Just take them dont waste precious time suffering, I wasted 2 months suffering because like u I read the side effects and was too scared to take them, then I got to the point if I dont do something I cant go on, you just come on here for support as we are all in the same boat as you just all at different stages and we will help you thru this, so many supportive people here. Its the first step to getting better, and it is tough for the first few weeks while your body adjusts but you will be fine one day wake up feeling normal again. Be strong x

Hey Jimbo

Hopefully the infection will clear up soon then, and brilliant it looks like you are on the mend, you will now just improve daily, every day and every cit is another step in getting back to your old self, well done for persevering as we all know its tough. But worth it to feel well again.

Joanne,

Good to hear your getting there too, dont worry in time the health anxiety's should lessen too, isn't it weird how our minds make us think allsorts when we are like this. stay strong you are getting there xx

Cara,

Hang on in there, stay positive you will get there, when you read thru previous posts you will see how many folk have improved, you deserve to be well again so be kind to yourself xx

Have a better day everyone, be strong

Anne

Thanks I'll need it I've suffered years with anxiety always thinking it would get better but it's finally at the point that it's just getting worse but I'm trying to decide when I should start taking them since this week I'm going to be crazy busy

Hello again.

Sorry I missed a couple of days. I was not sure what to say. Felt isolated and didn't know what to say.

Thank you Amy and Anne for your kind words of support earlier. First people who seem to genuinely care.

Had a better day yesterday. The first day where I didn't feel like I had been in a bad accident. I even had something to eat. I have got up this morning after a whole 5 hours of sleep.

This morning, I am worried that my doctor will sign me back to work when I see him on Thursday, because of the improvement. If he does, I think I'd crumble when I get to work.

Still getting the hot rushes when I think of things. Feel like I've been kicked in the guts, but just a bit numb with it.

Everyone on here. I am going through this with you. I will have a read later, but please give me time to get back, as I need to go over things again and again before putting it in words.

Thanks again.

Davy x

Morning all, hope ur all ok. Im in serious need of some words of wisdom.

woken up this morning so angry and fed up,keep crying again and thinking im going to be like this forever. I can just about function and get the kids off to school and nursery but thats it! Im so ready to throw in the citalopram towel now as i feel no better to when i started. I have had 2 weeks at 10mg,2 weeks at 15mg and now 2 weeks at 20mg, the last 6 weeks have been absoloute hell, sunday i had a fairly positive day but today again i feel like climbing back into bed but i know i cant. I feel like im all out of fight and just got to accept this is the way im going to be forever1 i use to be so fun and outgoing but now i barely leave the house and dont want to talk to anyway. My partner says he thinks its a good thing that im angry but i honestly dont know how im going to get through the days/weeks/months/years until i get better,if i get better that is. i would give ANYTHING just to be me again. I have the gp on thurs and so close to telling her that these arent working for me but dont want to be back to square one with side effects etc again as the sickness is starting to subside. Any words of wisdom would be very much appreciated. Thank u in advance xxxx

Hi Cara - try your best to keep on them. I know it's a nightmare dealing with the side effects and children. I have a 2 year old boy, and a 9 week old boy. Going through the side effects and trying to provide for my family was to be honest AWFUL. I'd literally do what I had to do (at a minimum) and then break down as soon as the kids were in bed.

I also starting thinking things like my husband would leave me because I was such a damn mess. I started 10mg of Citalopram on Jan 2nd, 20134. I had awful side effects. Then on the 21st I increased to 20mg and again the side effect reappeared and were just as bad. On Jan 29th I woke up feeling more like myself. And each day since then I've gotten better. It is such a hard drug to start, but the benefits will be worth it if. Talk to your GP - they'll know best. But I'd try hard to stick with it. You've been through the worst, each day will get slightly better and then it will click.

Keep us updated ok. We are all here to help...this forum is one of the main reasons I didn't quit.

XX

Thanks amy for ur reply.

I can relate to that as wonder why my partner would stay with me when all I manage to do is get kids sorted,the housework has gone to pot and cant remember the last time he came home to a meal cooked already without having to help me !

At least 2 of my little ones r at school/nursery and my mum has been helping with my baby boy (18 months) having said all this this morn I have been home with my mum this morn and had a good old clean which has made me feel better! Last wk i literally done the minimum with the kids and staying in bed but this week im forcing myself to but I just want to want to do things if that makes sense, i want to enjoy life which I know wont just happen over night!!

Thank u so much amy xxx

Hi everyone,

I have been on cit 4 weeks today. I started on 10mg and then went up to 15mg 1.5 weeks ago. I've been having some good days. Monday was the best so far and yesterday was quite good. Today I feel OK, but just incredibly nervous, like I've got major butterflies in my tummy. I think I'm anxious and being anxious which is making it worse! I do feel like I'm getting better - is this normal and has anyone else felt like this?

Thanks xxx

Hi everyone how r we all doing today? Middle of the week which is good for me as I hate mon and tues!!

Inthewoods

I can relate to that as feeling slightly better day by day but im constantly living in fear that i will go back to how I was which is the worst fear of them all! I guess its natural as when u start to get out of 'the black hole' u dont quite believe it! Im hoping in a few weeks time it will all feel like a bad dream

Glad ur feeling better tho xxx

Thanks Cara, I think you're spot on - it's the fear of feeling worse again that's scarier than anything else!

I'm hoping it all becomes a bad dream too - I think once we start having good days it really is the start of our recovery, because if we can have one good day it means we can have more! XX

Hello everyone,

I think I am in my second day of feeling, not too bad. Difficulty late yesterday with family.

Went to see my daughter and granddaughter with my wife; but got really anxious and felt angry because they had friends round and I thought, "Why did we bother after being asked to visit". I bit my tongue, but felt so disappointed. When we got home I felt sick and dejected.

Picked up later when we watched an old sitcom on TV.

This morning, after 4 hours sleep, just felt like I'd been in a minor accident.

Dreading to see the doctor tomorrow. Hope he doesn't send me back to work, because there is no way I am ready. If he does, it means facing all the people at work. I couldn't bare to see anybody, given my feelings with my own family in a situation that I should be well used to by now.

Anyway, rant over.

Hope you are all improving.

All the best...Davy.

I think ur right im now on my 4th okish day altho I kind of dont want to admit it incase i take a step back! I too have the dr im morn and hoping she sees a difference in me as so want to be on the road to recovery! Im spending a lot of time with my mum and dad at mom and at xmas time I couldnt even come round for an hr and now im hear all day pretty much but the children love it! I look forward to each week passing at mom as thats a step closer! Ive had 6 weeks of hell so theres got to be some let up soon!! Xxx

inthewoods this is totally normal for your journey, I was exactly the same, hang in there it will improve, please practice deep belly breathing when this happens this will calm you, breath deep into ur belly on a count of 5 then slowly exhale through your purses lips for a count 8 longer out than in, and think of golden sun breathing in and dark clouds breathing out, stay strong it takes us all time and different amounts of time.

Cara,

it will feel like a light has come on and you will feel normal again, and I think the fear of it all coming back is with us all, but we need to think positively and cross that bridge if it comes, hopefully it wont so lets not waste time thinking about it.

Hello Davy,

hope ur ok, I doubt ur doctor will sign u back to work until u are ready, hopefully things are improving for you but remember it does take time. be positive and stay strong, keep in touch, we are all here for you.

Hey Chris hope things are good with you

Anne