Coming off citalopram. :(

Hi escapee. No I was not angry before. I just seem to snap very easily now and everything bugs me

This angry feeling will pass

I was on Citalopram from 2008 until 2011. I requested to come off Citalopram as I identified a direct link between taking them followed by heavy sweating and anxiety which made me miss work and lose a job. I am now on Lofrepramine instead. I find that along with finally being the age to qualify for treatment of hypertension has resolved this.

Ive been taking citralopram for about 6 months now and it actually caused me to lose about 10 pounds. I decided I didn't want to take it anymore so I went from a 20 mg tablet once a day to 10 mg once a day and did that for a month, now I'm at 5 mg once a day and feel pretty good. I did try stopping cold turkey once before and I got extremely dizzy, so I decided to taper off. I can say this medication got me out of a very dark mental spiral I was in, and being someone who's never suffered from anxiety in the past it was a very uncomfortable confusing experience, I glad I decided to give medication a try, even though I wish it hadn't been necessary.

Hi, I'm new on here, and have been having a struggle with coming off citalopram too. I've been on it 4yrs Starting at 40, then up to 60! Over the yrs I've come down to 20 and tried several times to wean off with no luck they did the job as at the time I had lots going on In my life, but now I just wanna get off them.

I went to gp last week and asked to go down to 10 for a while, instead of trying to come off at 20. Like you Guys say the gp's make it sound easy to just reduce dose and stop but in reality I've def not found it that easy. I'm hoping I can cope with the 10 even if its a year, and then reduce slowly to get off them completely. It's been a week, and I've had headache last 3 days, and feel irritable. It's not fair on my family when I start snapping at them, but I really wanna try. It's helping knowing I'm not alone, maybe we can all get there in the long term.

I didn't realise I would have problems coming off Citalopram. Been on 20mg daily for 18 months. I tried cutting down to 20mg then 10mg etc and then went to 10mg every day, but it all went wrong, I could feel the agitation coming back, the tearfulness etc. My Dr was great and told me not to beat myself up and I wasn't ready.

I went back to 20mg and after 4 months under my dr's guidance went to 20 then 10 etc etc. All was going brilliantly.

About a week of stopping them all together I have suffered from dizziness and nausea. It feels like when I have turned around, my eye's and brain take another 3 seconds to turn to the position. It's weird!

Today was the worse, I got the old feelings back, burst into tears, dizziness, nausea and the old "I'm not good enough" feelings and a little hint of bad negative feelings.

I have decided to go back to 1x 10mg a day and stay like that for quite a few months and after reading some of these posts, I will take longer in cutting back as I think I just went too fast. WIll pop back to my Dr this week.

Good luck all of you coming off it.

I couldn't deal with the drop from 20 to 10 - had headaches, aching, irritable and tearful. I'm determined not to give up so I've cut tablets in half and for last 2 days have taken 15. I'm feeling better than I did so I'm gonna stick wiv this for a while. Wish I'd been told how hard they are to get off

I have just gone onto cit, 4 days ago, I'm feeling sick and lethargic and anxious, which isn't helping me with the reasons I've been put on it. Does this go away after the first 1-2 weeks as suggested in the info leaflet? More worrying is all these comments about coming off? I don't want to be on this forever, should I ask my doc for something else? I'm even more anxious now! I'm only on 10mg to be reviewed in a few weeks. Any advice is greatly welcomed!

Hey sarah324 don't worry those feelings do pass, although I am having a little trouble coming off, they still are nothing to the state I was in before them. Some people are calling them devil pills but they did what they were meant to and put me back together again and I would still go on them even though I know it will be difficult coming off of them.

Gonna take things slower in coming off them that's all

Hi guys, after a bad wobble I'm off work at the moment and I've been put on sertraline 50mg. Just wanted a bit of advice about sertraline. Have any of you guys been on it? I'm liking it better than citalopram so far for the effects on my mood but its really effecting my libido.. It's not nice :-/ any info would be really appreciated thanks x

Hi corrine7, thank you x

I've been taking cit for 11 years and I've finally decided to come off of it. I have also had weight gain from taking the mere plus a complete lack of sexual drive. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Hopefully it will help with my journey.

Hi Sara, I am also trying to come off it, how are you doing it? I am taking 20mg one day and then 10mg the next. So far no ill effects, but I have tried to drop my dose before and it hasn't gone well. My main problem with the tablets is that I have put on so much weight, although I have joined a gym and have been eating well the weight just doesnt shift. The depression tablets are actually making me feel depressed ha ha. Anyway, let me know how you get on will you? Maybe we could support each other through this awful journey?

Hi to small fry and all, my message to you is why put yourself through the ringer when taking antidepressants work for you !!!!! I've had fibromyalgia for 16 yrs and gave into taking certlpam a few years ago

I wish I'd started taking them earlier !!!! I was so low before and even though my life is so different now I am better for taking them

I've come to terms with having to take them for life , would it be so bad if you were on them ? What ever we can do to have a better quality of life can't be wrong .

Having to deal with depression is differcult to say the least and you seem to be very hard on yourself ?

I wish you all the very best and I hope I've helped a little ?

Hi I've been on 15mg for about a month now, and have seen symptoms ease right off. I'm thinking I might now try to reduce to 10mg and see how I get on. I'm also interested to see if it affects my weight as several peoe mention it.