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Citalopram at 9 weeks

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Macnjmc
Macnjmc

I am on week 9 of Cit. I was thinking and hoping that this would be the week things started looking up but honestly I feel pretty bad. Not as bad as when I started but not anywhere near as good as I am hoping to be.

I am 42 and never had problems with anxiety so much that I would need a psychiatrist and meds but I ran into a family problem and it turned my world and my families world upside down. I spent 5 days in a mental hospital (crazy! never had to do anything like that) and now am on Cit. They gave me other meds but I stuck with Cit only.

The last few weeks I have had HORRIBLE intrusive thoughts that I have never had in my life before! They scare me so much and I almost feel that it is BECAUSE OF Cit that I am having these thoughts...How can that be??? These thoughts cause me to isolate and I don't want to be away from my family! I also have these horrific debilitating migraines about once a week that i have never had before. I'm also dead tired all the time. I use to be happy go lucky and would wake up early excited to start the day but now I can easily sleep in till 11 and be tired the rest of the day. At times I feel really dead to everything, just flat and not really caring about anything. Anyone else have this experience?

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  • Saltire
    Saltire Macnjmc

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    Dear Macn

    I was standing, where you are standing today (about 8 months ago) and like you, was given Citalopram.

    Things took a turn for the worse when I started the meds and did NOT get better

    Many lovely folk on this forum suggested that CITALOPRAM would indeed make things worse for a while and then things would start to get better and that indeed is the case for MANY folk on here but NOT everyone

    Thinking that i had to round the corner i stayed on the meds whilst my heart said they were not for me and for 5 months I tortured myself every day and got worse as time moved on. It was not until I stopped the bloody things that I started to get better within 3 or 4 days. I have IBS and these meds did my gut in BIG TIME and I am STILL recovering from that upheaval

    I don't wish to alarm you and you never know maybe next week would be great for you if you stayed on them but it is YOUR decision my friend....IMO don't go beyond 12 weeks. Some folk have waited many,many months for it to work and some folk like me it would never work for.

    An hour after taking my meds I would feel like someone just slipped me a line of amphetamine...the agitation and worry and thoughts were off the charts. God, I hate citalopram it ****** me up big time and I stuck with it in the belief the cavalry was coming

    IMO let your doctor decide after 3 months if it's still no worky have a go at something else. I tried Mirtazapine for a while ( a few weeks)after the CITalopram and it was great but messed with my COPD,so currently on zero

    I know where you at right now and God love you it's bloody hard. have a wee think and talk again to your doctor.

    So, Citalopram is a wonder drug to some but it is cleary not for everyone so don't do as I did and take for 5 months thinking it will help in the end

    All the best and hope it comes out for you

    John

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