Coming off citalopram. :(

Hi Ach weil - I haven't looked for your new post but just wanted to share my thoughts while they were still in my head and the screen was open! I had a similar thing but it was in pre-cit days and the only thing I could connect it to was the menopause. Now I'm not suggesting you're going through that and obviously I don't know how old you are but there is a hormonal condition which produces these symptoms. From what you say it's very similar to what I found myself going through - certainly not unpleasant but totally inconducive with real life!!

It eventually died down of its own accord which made it seem even more certain that it was all hormone related but it wasn't connected to Citalopram or any other anti depressant so it will be interesting to see the replies you get.

I'm coming off Cit at the moment and very much look forward to the return of my libido - I've missed it

I am very happy to have found this forum. I am hoping to hear from others, to make me feel better. I have been on Citalopram 20mg for about 3 and a half years. I am starting to feel that I am having some negative side effects as far as with my cognitive functions. My memory is TERRIBE, I make ridiculous mistakes at work that I never did before, and I keep loosing everyday words from my vocabulary, and end of staring into space thinking about what to say. This is starting to effect me at work. Has anyone else had any experience with this? I intend to bring this up at my annual physical next month. I will appreciate any help I can get!

Thanks Marg...that's food for thought.

I am perimenopausal, mid 40s.

I suppose the cit may have been dulling it down and, now that I'm off them, the symptoms are apparent.

I'm seeing my GP today to have a chat.

Thanks again for your input...makes sense!

Diane, this is about coming off Citalopram. I think there are other threads about side-effects when on them that might be of more help. Yes, great to know of others with same symptoms.

Hello everyone.

I am currently trying to get off citalopram. I went from

20mg to 10mg and I feel fine. Hopefully will be off them soon!

I am actually writing this post to find out if any of you are interesting in talking about your anxiety/depression?

I'm a third year media studies student and currently making a documentary about anxiety for my final dissertation project (my anxiety got in the way of my university studies and I was advised to make something that meant something to me for my final project) I was just wondering if anyone would actually like to talk about their experience? I think it would just be a positive thing to bring awareness and hopefully help anyone that is going through the same thing.

It could be an interview over the internet and I can get an actor to read it out.

Hope some of you would like to help!

What exactly would you want to know/ what would we have to say, etc. I don't mind helping. If you want you can PM me. I suffered more from depression, though, following trauma.

Another update on coming off Cit:

Now down to 10mg (from 20 in Oct). Dropped dose last Sat and as usual felt fine for 5 or 6 days then extremely tired and slightly down/anxious for last couple of days. Woke up last night feeling decidedly "odd". Cant really explain it but horrible metal taste, strange clicking in head (not brain zaps) and not feeling right at all. Was ok this morning except for feeling a bit down and churning some bad past events around in head. Hope it doesnt last!

Hi Bday!

If it helps any, I'm felling the same. Totally cheesed off but that is nothing to do with the lack of pills and to do with my boring life.

I have terrible fatigue, just now and went to bed and slept for an hour and a half, this afternoon. Was in bed so early last night too. My muzzy head isn't so bad, so that is one thing.

I won't go back on the pills as the only thing that will help me is for my life to change for the better.

S

Hi everyone

Hope i can join the club lol,

Well have been taking citalopram on and off for 10yrs after my daughter passed away

Have now decided to come off them due to not getting the same brand every month from the chemist and am fed up going to different chemists each month to get same brand!!!! (pharmacist thinks it is the fillers in the tablets which dont agree with me)

Wen i take a different brand its like wen i first started them, i feel awful for approx 10 to 14 days, light headed, woozy, very tired etc, then wen it gets into my system am fine unless i take a different brand the next month. Am sick of feeling out of control for 2 weeks of every month so now is the time to stop.

Have just reduced from 20 to 10mg, early days yet so here's hoping for a not so bumpy ride.

thanks for reading

Juliex

I don't think doctors realise how much we put up with on these tablets - I sometimes wonder if the negative effects far outweigh the positive ones

That's a strange one, Julie and can't understand that but I'm not a pharmacist

Been feeling very down but know that is nothing to do with no pills but my life. If I'd still been taking them, I know I would be feeling worse.

hi ms mac

I found it strange as well, am ok with 3 brands of the tablets and i feel like a new woman if i take the ones made by Bristol labs, the pharmacist stated that because citalopram is the generic version of ciprimil, that wen the patent was finished and other companies started making these tables in cheaper versions ie citalopram, that although the medicine is the same, they add fillers and coatings which are different from the original tablet ( think it is somthing like 90% medicine and 10% fillers/coatings) and its some these fillers/coatings in the tablet that dont agree with me. I thought i was going mad at first as for 2 weeks of the month i felt awful.

My doctor wont prescribe ciprimil due to the costs involved, so its time to stop.

Am in a good place at the moment, i have a wonderful supportive husband whom i married 5yrs ago and life seems good, so, i personally think that i am taking the tablets cause am so used to taking them it has become a habbit, well that and the dreaded withdrawal symptoms i dont want to get lol

I was on them so long because I was frightened to stop. They were my crutch but never again. Unfortunately, I have no-one to really support me and that is the main reason for my depression.

Shocking to think what they do to save a few pence - all at our expense, of course. Human Guinea pigs!

Hi Julie, welcome to forum! Glad to hear you are feeling better now and hoping to come off these.

Hi Ms Mac, sorry you are feeling not so good still, I hope you can manage to stay off the meds this time. I feel very dizzy and tired today too. I am going to stick with 10mg for a couple of months now to try and stabilize a bit and see how things go before dropping again. Am very wary of stopping completely still as I still dont know whether it was life events that triggered my depression or just a matter of low seratonin levels. Will find out over the summer no doubt!

best wishes to you both and everyone else on here x

Thank you Bday. Definitely life events, with me but this weather certainly adds to the gloom. Today, was cold but bright so feel a good bit better. Thankfully, dizziness has eased. Take it slowly, I would say and the withdrawal effects WILL subside.

Take care and all good wishes to everyone on this journey.