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Hi. I am on day 17. 10 mg for one week, 20mg thereafter. I have been suffering anxiety following an illness for about 2 months now. doctor prescribed citalopram. My anxiety had been worse, wakening up every hour with burning in arms and feet. Also constipated badly. Can I expect these side effects to go away or do so need to considering changing my medicine.
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joseph12100 pat80430
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Hi Pat I've been in the same boat as you I've currently stopped taking cirtalapram after 3 months of use which I don't recommend the symptoms got worse every month is say the last month I started getting nasty headaches tention headaches and shooting pains I got so concerned I thought it was something sinister I googled affects of cirtalapram and there was a lot of people suffer just like I was so I decided to stop which did stop the headaches I found the symptoms got worse not better I am very worse at the moment that's from withdrawels all I can suggest is to speak to your GP and see what he says. The burning in your arms and feet I got that burning feeling in my left side of face it wasn't pleasant check out my profile and you will see a load of nice people giving me advice maybe you can take there's as well hope you get it sorted soon .
lois95799 joseph12100
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Not all folks reacts to Medications like you..I for one had all your side effects ..but they subsided and iam happy the celexa work for me and millions of other folks around the world...so you didn't like your side effects..I also have a friend who took escitolapram and she had horrible side effects..switch to celexa and viola it help her..so you see what's good for some might not be good for others..go figure..
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sue74917 pat80430
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Hi, all I can say is what so many in here will tell you, they are side effects and will ease with time. You have only been on 20 for 10 days so too early yet . If you change meds now you will have to taper off and then start again on another, so back to square one really and you have invested 17 days already on these meds. It will get better with time, when I first went on this medication it only took 4 weeks of hell before I saw a vast improvement but this time it has been over 3 month's. I am a lot better, I can do everything I did before, go out on my own, go to work and even drive but still have the odd few hours when my motivation dips and mild anxiety sets in. Hang on in there, you will get there, if it gets too bad speak to your GP and as for the constipation, if you like prunes a couple of dried stone less should sort you out.
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lois95799 pat80430
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Be really careful with that weaning plan..it doesn't sound right..
sue74917 pat80430
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Hi pat, glad you had a better nights sleep, as Lois said that does not sound right, you have been on the medication for 3 month's and 2 weeks is very quick. I hope you aren't, but you may be setting yourself up for some unwanted withdrawal side effects, if you trust your GP and bear in mind we are not medically trained, then I suppose you can go for it, personally I wouldn't do it that quick
pat80430 lois95799
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What do you think is wrong with the plan? I have been on the medication for 18 days only. 1 weeks at 10 mg, then 9 days at 20mg, then today I started back down at 10mg for 1 week
lois95799 pat80430
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I just think is too fast from experience I've had .. remembered the key here is to not suffer discontinuation symptoms..so the slower the better..I took effexor for one week and had discontinuation symptoms for two months not good..
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Doctor prescribed me with a sleeping tablet 3.5mg zopiclone. Have taken it for two nights without much effect.
I also contacted a mental heath specialist as I wasn’t feeling GP was helping. The specialist recommended I chnage to Zoloft and also to take Quetiapine. Can I switch across to these new drugs immediately.
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Hi Pat
Both these new drugs you have been recommended interact with citalopram so speak to your GP about cross tapering whereby you gradually come off one med and slowly introduce the new med. I don't know if it would be possible but may be worth discussing it with your GP .
From my own experience your citalopram hasn't had time to take effect yet, I would have stuck with 10mg for several more weeks. Going up after a week will heightened anxiety. I had anxiety when I increased from 10mg to 20mg, back on 10mgs.
Just rememver, once you start these head meds it is not easy to come off them.
Good luck whatever you decide!
lois95799 pat80430
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pat80430 lois95799
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Hi Lois
Thanks very much for your interest. Yes I was diagnosed with asthma about 7 weeks ago now. I had a spirometry test done. My symptoms at that time were a mucus cough in my left lung. My peak flow is extremely good for my age (600) and it has been consistent over the 7 weeks since diagnosis. I have no other typical asthma symptoms such as shortness of breath, wheezing or tightness, just a cough. I have been on a 250 seritide inhaler and I was also on montelakust for a short while but it has been discontinued. The inhaler hasn't made any difference to the mucus cough so far. I had a CT scan last week which has come back perfectly normal just today so that is a huge relief.
As I said above my main problem is that I keep wakening every couple of hours with burning pains in the my legs and legs which I was putting down to anxiety. I don't have much of a history of anxiety and not much of depression either. I only noticed today that according to the Mayo clinic one of the common side effects of seritide inhaler is burning in hands, arms, feet or legs. While I am definitely stressed and verging on anxious I am still not sure if the burning is been caused by anxiety or now perhaps a side effect of the inhaler.
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After another very anxious night I’ve decided to go with the recommendation of the mental health specialist and go into the Quetiapine and the Zoloft. Have contacted the GP this morning and he was talking about just a straight switch over at this point. You talked about cross taper. My pharmacist seems to think I can just switch over to new meds as well.
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Hi Pat
Sorry to hear you had another bad night.
I would go with the experts if I were you otherwise you will be making yourself anxious about whether you should have listened to them. I didn't get on with Zoloft, I had blood in urine so had to stop a long time ago. I would be interested to hear how you get along with the new meds though because I am beginning to doubt Citalopram for me. I took a magnesium tablet 100mg last night and that helped me sleep.
The heat isn't helping with anxiety for so many people.
Hope you feel better soon!
Regards