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Success on Citalopram😁

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gillian176
gillian176

I just wanted to feed back to you all how wonderful I am feeling week12 on citalopram 20 mg

This is my second time on this drug since 2013. With hindsight I should never really have come off it but stayed at a very low dose .

I spent hours..again ...researching the internet in the early stages. This time it took 6 weeks until I started to feel better. It had taken only 2 the first time

Yes I had all the side effects and felt much much worse whilst my brain waited to rewire  itself in those initial weeks

It may not be the drug for everyone but it's worked wonders for me 

So I just wanted to comfort and give empathy to those of you out there who are still on their journey

My path is now much straighter

Good luck all 

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  • monica62597
    monica62597 gillian176

    Posted

    Thank you so much Gillian for the reply!I think my last experience with this after a miscarriage and bad reaction to an antibiotic afterwards left me in a severe state that took two years to come out of!I felt so sure I would not survive I had my wedding photographer take a pic of my family with me in it so they could remember me!I was put on Celexa forty mg and never looked back!I was completely me again 100 percent and stayed on that for five years and was doing great,weaned off during my last pregnancy and it slowly all came back while I was training for a half marathon and pouring coconut oil in my coffe.It was like my body crashed and I was doing everything I could to breathe and tried Celexa had a bad reaction stopped it after two days and then went five months w nothing till last November started on low low dose of Prozac 5 mg and worked up to forty!I wasn't helping much at all and my doc switched me straight to Celexa and this time my response was great and that was July and I did well with the switch,felt better all July and all August on the forty and then about nine weeks in started dipping for two straight weeks and my doc said my OCD needed a higher dose so she moved me to 60 mg which I have been on for two weeks!I cannot understand how I did so well those 4 to 6 weeks on the 40 and went backwards badly!I tried to wait it out but after two weeks I needed to do something!My sleep at night is good!I can no longer nap during the day like I used to do .I use to require naps because I have four kids and keep super busy being a mom and I run my own business doing hair,so I make my own hours.Is two weeks on higher dose too soon to tell?Does it start over again!I don't have bodily anxiety stuff anymore!Its all anxious thinking!Like I will never be me again,I will never run again,I won't see my kids grow up,I will always think I am a horrible person,etc.Lots of fears.I just get through my day!I am told I have functional anxiety!I cannot understand why Celexa saved me last time so fast and now I am just hanging in!Hoping by some fluke it gets better!Sorry for the book I just wrote here.

    • gillian176
      gillian176 monica62597

      Posted

      Gosh there's an awful lot going on and gone on in your life

      Well yes I would say two weeks on a higher dose is prob too early to tell if it's effective 

      If you were just starting out say, I would say it's going to take several weeks before you felt better

      But I have no knowledge of such a hi dose 

      Maybe you need to take some time and add in some therapy : reading: group activity to help you 

  • gillian176
    gillian176

    Edited

    Did anyone see Trust me Iā€™m a Doctor bbc2 last Tuesday 9 pm

    Ger it on catch up

    Was very informative on Mental Health and coping strategies

    Do watch it

    Mindfulness came out bestĀ 

    • matt39801
      matt39801 gillian176

      Posted

      Hi GillianĀ 

      Iā€™ll check it out , thanks for the heads up it may help me.

      MattĀ 

  • sybs
    sybs gillian176

    Posted

    Yes I saw that,very interesting.I do try to practice mindfulness.
    • matt39801
      matt39801 sybs

      Posted

      HiĀ 

      For all of you who are suffering morning anxiety as I am keep in mind that the rest of the day will improve........ thatā€™s what I tell myself every horrible morning and it normally does get better xx

  • nucole36482
    nucole36482 gillian176

    Posted

    How are you all doing now?
    • gillian176
      gillian176 nucole36482

      Posted

      I have blips but I look back on how I was doing here and try to add in the therapy self help I need

      I just posted to Fernando 21 because he said some gd retraining brain things a while ago

    • nucole36482
      nucole36482 gillian176

      Posted

      Great to hear, I missed my tablets for 4 months and back on them now for 6 weeks
    • gillian176
      gillian176 nucole36482

      Posted

      Very well

      Aided by self help meditation mindfulness sun motivation and exercise 👍😎

  • billie_jea86360
    billie_jea86360 gillian176

    Posted

    Hi everyone first time posting. Long story short I have had a very rough last 4 years. I started nursing school my kids dad passed away also lost several other loved ones that I havnt even had time to grieve for yet and I have 6 children. Needless to say I have an extremely stressful life. I've made it to last semester of nursing school and was hit with severe dabilitating depression and the first panic attacks and anxiety I have ever felt in my life. I started 25 mg Zoloft four weeks and have gone up to 50 but the side effects are killing me and making the anxiety constant. I was prescribed .5 Ativan twice daily if needed and have only been taking .25 at the most but for 5 days straight I've had to take it don't want to get addicted but the Zoloft has not kicked in and I am in a current breakdown and the Ativan helps yes I have a psychiatrist and therapist taking it day by day but celexa works really great for a few of my close family members so wondering if I should switch and very concerned about the Ativan gives me anxiety to take my anxiety medicine waiting for the Zoloft hoping as meds start to work I will not feel the need to take the Ativan but it literally scares me to death... ahh help... To update I decided to do the celexa switch. Took no zoloft last night and 10 mg of cit at 7 pm didn't feel as foggy when I woke up today but ended up having to take .25 Ativan again... but hopeful I will feel better on the celexa soon and also hoping since I've been on Zoloft for four weeks I won't have the nasty start up effects... still experiencing them from the Zoloft. I just need to get through the next few weeks to finish school. 

    • fernando_21
      fernando_21 billie_jea86360

      Posted

      Hello Billie. Hang in there. I know itā€™s tough. I had similar feelings regarding the Ativan. But you know what it really helped. Celexa took me a very long time to settle in and it wasnā€™t until I got the correct dose of Ativan that I felt better while celexa did is thing. It not worth suffering through if the medicine can help you. Ā I too was afraid of Ativan dependency and taking too much. But the fact is anything less than 2mg per day is not indicated to treat anxiety disorder. I ended up going to 1mg twice per day and got over the fear of what may happen I trusted in what is happening. And that was I felt better. Itā€™s like a diabetic if she doesnā€™t take her insulin sugar will spike. Now that being said you must incorporate physical, spiritual and mental health exercises daily. All 3 facets in combination with the medicine will help you manage and eventually master it. I have GAD Iā€™m runs in my family. It will never completely go away. My first step to recovery was accepting that and just knowing everyone has something we all have our cross to carry. The good news is now I know what mine is so I can focus on learning how to most effective carry it! Thereā€™s an app called Headspace that really helped me. Teaches you how to view your thoughts provides cute cartoon illustrations that make for easy visuals. Have a strong support system around friends family you can talk to. And be consistent with the 3 phases I mentioned everyday. Even if itā€™s just 10minutes. I use what I call an energy ride. I ride my bike in the morning that takes care of the physical part, while I ride I listen a prayer thatā€™s the spiritual and then a motivational podcast thatā€™s the mental. This takes care of all 3 at the same time for 30 minutes. Works wonders for me. Iā€™m in celexa 10mg because I could not tolerate more and now only take the Ativan once at night. Mind you I lost my job 6 months ago and have been struggling to find one. I donā€™t have 6 kids but I do have a 6 year old and wife and my in laws who live with us to take care. My father in law had cancer last year and now has a Trach in his throat and eats through a peg tube in his belly. We are his care givers. My point in sharing all this is stress levels around us can be very high but you can still manage through it internally. Thereā€™s an old African saying that states ā€œif thereā€™s no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harmā€. Ā Keep your chin up view your symptoms as opportunities to train and get stronger instead of a burden. You will get through. Also life is made up of seasons. Nothing last forever although painful seasons seem to I know. But they donā€™t. We all have ups and downs. Enjoy the ups and grow from the downs. God bless.Ā 
  • eddie2512
    eddie2512 gillian176

    Posted

    HI thank youĀ 

    week 7 just starting to feel better (been to hell and back)Ā 

    one day at a time.

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