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jasperjames
jasperjames

Usually comes on after first meal.    (Not exclusively)

Or in the afternoon. Rarely at night.

Dizzy , loss of balance.

Pressure under or in ears.

Loss of hearing

Vison problems                           

Stiff neck.  Back of head 

Weak

Tired.                 

Loss of concentration                         

Feel mentally impaired.

Cant focus at all.

This will last hours.     

Not panic attacks

                                            

Side syptoms.

Issue with light in vision.

Eyes become very tired.

See lines in vision.   

Sometimes look at floor and see waves            

Can get better but then returns. Tried a food diary nothing conclusive.

I cant hide this from work much longer and it could effect my career.

any help would be much appreciated. 

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  • steeko
    steeko jasperjames

    Posted

    Holy crap, I have the exact same thing james! With the vision waves I just put it down to my eye sight getting progressively worse and lack of sleep! There must be a link with vision and cit. I went to my doctor and he didn't seem concerned about my eye sight. I just said the same thing as you. I also get black/white stars during the night along side wavey floor and unfocus my eyes, I couldn't help or couldn't regain focus in my eyes.

    I also was unable to read anything! I just could'nt focus my eyes at night time to even read my phone! I also had vertigo like symptomes. As in loss of balance near windows, dizzy randomly throughout the day, I always just put it down to not eating as the pills made me lose my appitie. 

    The loss of balance and vertigo went away after 2 weeks until I went to my doctors and told him some lasting side effects and told me to come of them and do it now but slowly lower your dose. I was only in my 4th week.

    I didn't mention my vertigo as it hadn't happened in a week or 2. But I went to see jimmy car last friday and Its a sort of stage at the bottom and all the seats are looking down at him, as soon as I sat down and looked down, I felt like I needed to get out I was panicing and really felt like I was in danager and I needed to crawl out of there and got dizzy while sitting down!!. Luckily I had my prescription for propranolol, so I went to the toilet took it and felt less panicy in like 20mins.. but still really weird and dizzy.... 

    Have you expereinced ringing in your ears? I would highly advice you to stop if you have had any sign of ringing in your ears. ( I wish I did!!) At the start I was getting ringing in my ear but only for a second or two. Now its 24/7. Hopefully and I am told it will go away but sometimes in people it doesn't!

    I hope you are ok, and I hope this all goes away and you get benefits from cit!

    I would go to your doctor and stress the need to see him/her urgently. Just because one pill IE Cit doesn't work there's plenty more out there, ones that will agree more with you than others! After all these things are made to improve your quaility of life not make it worse (even though most do take some time to get used to)

    Let me know how you get on! If you do ask your doctor about your vision please share it on here I would love to know what was going on.

    Thank you!

  • cheryl52711
    cheryl52711 jasperjames

    Posted

    Hey 

    I've had majority of the symptoms you listed but I also get tingling or squeezing sensation in my head along with pins an needles in the face it's very fighting. 

    In regards to your eyes I've had very tired sore an pressure behind them so I started putting eye drops on 3 times a day an there not as bad as they where...

    How long have you been taking Cit an what mg?

    I'm currently on 10mg an heading towards week 5 on Monday.. The doc wanted to increase but I am very anti tablets.. so gonna stick it out for another couple of weeks 

    I'm sure theses  side effects will disappear in time.. I'm on wk 4 an slowly I do notice a difference but l have good days an bad days.. 

    Things will get worse before they better... so try stick it out 

    I would suggest going back to your gp 

    Cheryl 

  • jasperjames
    jasperjames

    Posted

    I'm dreadfully sorry but im not on any medication I must have posted this in the wrong section. 

  • redmarigolds
    redmarigolds jasperjames

    Posted

    it sounds like you are suffering anxiety make an appointment to see doctor and take it from there hope you feel better soon x

     

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