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Starting a different time of day

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cindy1957
cindy1957

If I want to switch talking my cit pill from morning to night and I already took one this morning, does anyone have a suggestion on how I can do that? I want to try to avoid the tiredness in the mornings for the first 7 hours by trying it at 9 pm!

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  • cindy1957
    cindy1957

    Posted

    I take 10 mg every morning of the citalopram, 3 weeks on the 10 mg but started 5 mg first 5 weeks of taking it and my doctor upped it to the 10 mg 3 weeks ago.
  • jcwray
    jcwray cindy1957

    Posted

    I doubt that missing by 1/2 day is a big deal either way. The effects build up over weeks not hours
  • stevo1975
    stevo1975 cindy1957

    Posted

    I would check with your doc, if it makes you drowsey could be a good thing but check I would imagine you would take a pill monday monring and not again until Tuesday night if that be the case ? But the doc is best to ask for your specific case.
  • New85
    New85 cindy1957

    Posted

    Hi cindy, I'm concidering doing the same. My doctor specifically said to take in the mornings when I started - but I think this was because I was suffering from insomnia and I had been prescribed sleeping pills at the same time which I'm not supposed to take at the same time. But I'm not taking them anymore and I'm hoping that (now the awful side effects have subsided!) taking citalopram at night will help me sleep instead of the sleeping pills. I will probably check with my doctor before doing it but I'm not expecting it tobe a problem. Let me know if you find out the answer before me! x
    • cindy1957
      cindy1957 New85

      Posted

      Well someone on here said to split the dose in half, take it around 3 pm and the other half at bedtime, so I'll try that. So tired of being tired during the daytime
  • David_21660
    David_21660 cindy1957

    Posted

    Hi Cindy,

    I did mine gradually by splitting the dose fitst day I moved half 6 hours up to about 3pm then took the other at bedtime, I aimed for around 10pm. After that it was 10pm each night.

    Initially I moved mine up, as suggested by an angel here, to avoid multiple and very vivid dreams that were really p***ing me off! Every night, every time I got up in the night I went back to the same dream or started a fresh one! Man it tired me.

    Try this I did feel more alert during the morn and afternoon, but come 9pm I did start to feel urgh! Actually it was a good reminder to take the med.

    Good Luck and keep posting

    Best Regards,

    David

     

    • cindy1957
      cindy1957 David_21660

      Posted

      So like today instead of taking my whole 10 mg at 8 am I could take half of it around 3 or 4 pm and then the other half at bedtime say about 9 pm does that sound good?
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