Citalopram: 20mg for 8 weeks then 30mg for 2 weeks - feel much worse!

Hang on in there I think we all want/would like immediate results. Reading some of the queries on this subject it seems some folk have to wait a long time (months not weeks they are saying) for good results.

Think we are all guilty of wanting that 'magic' instant effect. We have to stick with it longer.Am having a similar episode myself, not quite the same. All I can say is hang on in there, probably getting anxious about getting a good result makes us impatient & makes it all seem worse.

I would like the link to the book referred to as well pls'

I have been suffering anxiety for about 6 months now due to overload of stress following the death of 4 people close to me aswell as working lots and long hours at a hospital my anxiety is mainly health anxiety. I tried to treat it naturally and failed miserably have now been on citalopram 20mg for nearly 4 weeks I feel constantly tired still have constant chest and back pain and morning anxiety is awful. I'm due to start cbt this week I know it's early days but can't see an end to this anywhere near. the side effects have been a bit naff wake up every morning from a broken nights sleep still feeling shattered with soaking wet night clothes due to sweating and chest back and jaw pain. please tell me it gets better. in the last 3 months of had heart attacks every cancer u can think of the newest one is mouth cancer due to the fact I started smoking again and the jaw pain. Is there anything I can be doing to get me through this

Hi

I too have always found katiecogs comments very helpful in times of need. Please could you message me the details of the book as well.

Thank you.

Hi everyone - and especially to Katecogs

Thank you for all your very helpful and positive comments on here, you have really helped to give me hope that there is light at the end of this dark tunnel of anxiety. I have been taking 20mg Citalopram for 7 weeks now. I do definitely feel better, calmer, happier and the depression has lifted but I still don't ever feel "normal". I seem to want to eat all the time, I am so abnormally tired in the afternoons (I take meds at bedtime) and I feel "odd and strange" all the time. One thing I don't understand is that I have a strange ongoing muscle tightness in my cheeks, forehead and eyes, like I am constantly squeezing my face tight, it aches. When I wake in the morning my facial muscles now involuntarily twitch, I think because they have been so tight and tense constantly. I am doing everything i can eg. meditating, running, swimming, massage etc. but this awful feeling of a tight skowling feeling is constant, affects my driving and its now a vicious circle because it seems to have become a uncontrollable habit and is increasing my anxiety. I have spoken to my GP and am told this is all part of anxiety and it will take time. Just wondered if anyone else has experienced such an odd and debilitating symptom of anxiety (this started 4 months ago before I started taking the meds). I think I am going mad 😕 Many thanks from anyone out there who may have experienced similar 😃. Good luck to you all xx

does not sound right to me. Did you discuss increasing dosage with your doctor first?

If so or in any case either try to see your doctor or if that not possible try to get a telephone appointment with them to discuss the effects you are feeling now.

Good luck

hey can I also have the link to the book please