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Ok so wk 7 now 20mg i take it at 5pm and am super chilled all night still need melatonin to drop off to sleep and wake several times crazy nitemares. In am anxiety starts i dont want to get up or go to work all intrusive thoughts start etc, i have to return to work tomoz and im so worried as im so detatched and struggling with depersonalition all day, then again in evening it improves,any advice pls?? x
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dubry7605074 emma03822
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Absolutely do not increase dosage x 7 weeks is way too soon still x settle on 20mg x if you increase now, your ill effects will only be magnified times ten x more is not becessarily better with these meds
katecogs emma03822
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Agree - don't increase this early, in fact you might not need to increase at all. 20mg is a dose lots recover on. All perfectly normal to feel better/chilled in the evenings and dreadful in the mornings. The good feeling will increase more over time. Bad mornings were the last thing to go for me.
Keep going.
Guest emma03822
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i've only taken melatonin occasionally and given me awful nightmares could be that causing them. Not good to take it all the time probably?
emma03822
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i really struggle to fall asleep if i dont which is my anxiety, i wake several times in the night still and take it again. Dreams have only been a few nights so hopefully will stop now x
Guest emma03822
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I know it's horrible took zopiclone because insomnia for years coming off that caused all my problems. Just my experience with melatonin is that gave me awful dreams made me very zonked out next days. Even taking stuff like that you can become reliant on it, I drink chamomile tea, and did find a self hypnosis cd helped for a while. Hope they soon improve and you feel better soon.
Grunthos emma03822
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It's too early to increase the dose yet. Regarding nightmares, one of the listed side-effects of Citalopram is "vivid dreams". I also had nightmares when I was taking Citalopram and, unfortunately, these persisted until I came off Citalopram. Some side-effects gradually disappear. With me, yawning took about 3-4 months to disappear but the vivid dreams didn't go. For info I was on Citalopram for just under 2 years and took it for depression.
june13407 Grunthos
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Out of interest how long did it take to help I am 17 weeks in 12 of those on 30mg but have anxiety too. I am having good and bad days
Hejohn emma03822
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I had nightmares and very vivid dreams....these did ease after a few months. Have been on 20mg since July. It takes perseverance but well worth it once you feel better.
Grunthos emma03822
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Hi emma,
I've been on and off Citalopram since 2007 so I can't really answer your question. My final bout on Cit lasted nearly two years when I went from 20mg/day to 40mg but after 18 months I decided that the root causes of my depression had diminished so I gradually weaned myself off over a period of five months.
I've never suffered from anxiety or panic attacks, just a feeling of not being able to cope with things, so I'm not sure if this is relevant to you.
I'm not even sure if Cit ever worked for me because I never got rid of the side-effects. I just got to the stage where I felt I could cope without it, and now I can cope without it.
Grunthos
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Sorry emma, that reply was meant for june13407.
june13407 Grunthos
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OK thank you