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Missed doses of taking my 40mg of citalopram for 3 days no suffering

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cheryl20077
cheryl20077

hi all missed my citalopram dose 4omg for 3 days now I feel awful doctor said start them again and try not to miss doses but it's been 5 days since I restarted them and still feel awful can't sit still anxiety is unbearable. does my brain need time to adjust to the medication again? thank you will they work again o ly was off them for 3 days 😪

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  • gillian26312
    gillian26312 cheryl20077

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    hi, I hope you are doing ok.

    i have recently went through this. i thought i was all good so decided to half my 40mg tablets. i done this for about a week and a half.

    i started feeling terrible again so went back up to 40mg. that was 5 weeks ago. i am starting to feel better, still bot quite there but its deffo getting better.

    If i was you I would keep taking your 40mg and over the next few weeks you should start feeling back to your old self again. keep yourself busy i found that helps xxx

    • cheryl20077
      cheryl20077 gillian26312

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      thank you for your reply day 7 now of restarting them my anxiety is reducing and I'm finding that I can sit down for a bit. morning are awful still soon as I open my eyes I feel really really sick feeling shaking nerves ect horrible feeling but I think that's just the side effects again as I stopped them and they need to build up again . just goes to show how powerful these drugs are 3 days off and you feel terrible for couple of weeks while they get back to work xxx

    • gillian26312
      gillian26312 cheryl20077

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      Yes i had no idea i would go the way i did its a horrible thing to go through. just keep going you will get there and back to your normal self xx

    • cheryl20077
      cheryl20077 gillian26312

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      thank you for the reply. yeah u really do hope so I do feel bit better in evenings still can't eat though. I will keep goingit's so hard 😫 . my doc wants me to go down to 30mg. as on 40mg I'm getting heart palpitations alot and hopefully that will stop the heart palpitations ? but I'm going to go down 5mg for a few weeks once I feel well enough x glad your starting to feel better xxx

    • gillian26312
      gillian26312 cheryl20077

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      yes it sounds like you need to go down a wee bit. thats it keep going the more time that passes the better in my experience . you can do it xxxx

  • yomi07603
    yomi07603 cheryl20077

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    hi just to ask ive been on ssri for over a month now for a relapse of my anxiety and havent still fully felt better does it take that long to actually start working?

    • cheryl20077
      cheryl20077 yomi07603

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      yes are tou feeling any better I so the tablets are working says give it 6 weeks to feel the full benefit of them but it will get better. I'm going g though a hard time aswell waiting g for them to kick back in it will get better that what I say to myself. xxxxx

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