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Impossible to Stop taking Citalopram?

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mark61320
mark61320

Hello,

I have been taking Citalopram for approximately 9 years. I was initially prescribed the 20mg dose which was increased to 30mg around 4 years ago and then, once again, increased to 40mg 2 years ago.

I have tried several times to cease taking this drug in a variety of ways and have suffered debilitating symptoms each time, whether I have abruptly stopped or took up a steady and gradual decrease over a lengthy period.

To be more precise, in the past I've decreased to 30mg per day for approximately 1 month and found that I develop a lack of patience, a headache, achy/tired eyes in addition to dizziness and bouts of extreme fatigue and tiredness that literally switch off and on. I've had to treat this by reverting back to the 40mg dose as I feel tranquilized. 

I've spoke to my GP several times to discuss lowering the dose. To my surprise, my GP does not seem to be aware of the withdrawal symptoms and has never discussed a withdrawal plan.

I do feel completely out of my depth here. Could it be that I will be stuck taking this drug for the rest of my life or is there a proven and practised way of stopping this drug?

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  • gillian176
    gillian176 mark61320

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    I need it for chemical imbalance too but I never realized that

    I wish I had

    I came off it 3 years ago. From 20 mg to 1.25 mg using a pill cutter

    Took me a year to reduce

    However am on it again and will stay there 

    YourGp isnot as enlightened as we all are on this supportive site!

    Mine was and discussed a plan but I am medical myself which has helped understanding all this 

  • neil87638
    neil87638 mark61320

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    Hi Mark,

    I've been on this evil drug for over 10 years now after being wrongly diagnosed with depression when it was actually adult adhd and autism. Getting off it is an absolute mission and so far I've not made it tried everything imaginable to get off it Dr's are clueless my and have no back up plan and the psychitarists are not much and just systematic trained robots with tick box spread sheets and questionnaires to follow. The only possible viable solution I have found is clinic's the states that specialise in getting people it which is no surprise to me as they knew it was addictive when they saturated market with it not caring about the after effects as profit talks as usual. I hope you succeed mate my Hart goes out to anyone suffering with this stuff as its a living hell to be subjected to.

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