Dreams and intimacy
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Hi everyone I've been on citalopram since February, started at 10mg and still felt the same for weeks so my doctor then prescribed 20mg and I've felt great apart from the strange dreams, does anyone get these? Like I have constant dreams about the way I felt before with anxiety and panic but also just really odd things happen and I'm so relieved when I've woke! Also when it comes to sex it's just not the same :-S
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Guest Jbell
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Been on CIT 20mg for 12 months .all good now,no probs with anxiaty.
Sex is prolonged which is great!!!
Dreams are frequent maybe 2_3 every night.they are weird and about something in the past.or what has happened or said the previous day.
Maybe its our minds healing and sorting things out.bit like a computer. Defragmentation!!!???
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I have started to ween myself off now as I feel better and more positive about my future, but taking 20mg of cit for the last year definetly helped me get through a difficult time in my life and the side effects were worth it.
Its worth persevering for a while till you feel stronger, hope this helps and your future will be brighter
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decndor Jbell
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and now fluctuate between 20mg and 10mg. I dont know if you are aware but there are two main types of depresion. First of all there is the depression when you are feeling sad and low all the time, and then there is clinical depression which is an illness that is generally brought on by health problems. I suffer from the later which i experienced after a number of operations which obviously took there toll on my general health. So I need to take them to keep on top of this problem.
To get back to your problem of dreams this a side effect that I suffer from which if you read the litrature that comes with the medication states is one of the side effects. Mine generally focus on on my previous work life which is always negative which leaves me feeling worthless when I wake. And yet in my work life
i was respected for what I did unlike my dreams. Hope this helps in some way
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Dreams oh yeah I have em every night not nightmares just very vivid although starting to wake and notremember them I think the brain is working hard to repair the inbalancement in chemicals and there has to be some wierd side effects of that dreams whatever.... The other night I was dreaming about an ex work colleagues who I havent thought of for years and rats biting my feet so I kicked them away hiting my wife in the ankle needless to say she wasnt happy and she kinda doesnt get it the whole side effect thing from citalopram etc I know i'm pretty special case !!!
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