Success on Citalopram😁

OH MY YES!...isn't that ever the truth, Mary!! (;

I'm on week 3 feeling ok but not great but reading that ur on week 8 and doing good hopefully I'll be the same.

It's great isn't it. I felt just the same.i thought I was doomed to be always like that 😁😁 

You will Louise. People said that to me and I was still in the dark hole and couldn't imagine being better 

this is why I am posting encouragement and positivity 

Thanks for posting makes me feel like I will get there some days better than others.

I can't wait to feel like this. I'm really up and down at the moment and uncertain about things.

Thank you for posting this. I so need the hope. I've been dealing with illness for 6 months an anxiety an depression set in. The anxiety brain fog had taken over my life as well as depression an some very dark intrusive thoughts. I had the prescription for cit for 4 months but was scared to take it. One day i cut up a bunch of them into quarters they are 10 mg tablets. I have taken a quarter every day for 3 weeks it may have taken me down a notch here an there. Last night i took 5 mg an woke up today shaking nauseated an feel like in a tunnel no energy. I know im dragging the process along bu taking low doses. My dr okd that to introduce it in my system but wants me move up to 10 mg. Im taking a kittle xanax here an there to help take edge off. I just so want to feel like me again. I took paxil many years ago it was horrendous start up but did work but i felt nothing really so i quit taking it. My dr said cit was milder to go on than paxil. So tired of feeling this anxiety come over me an paralyze me. Praying i got courage to stick with another 5 mg today. My plan is to go up in quarters altho ive thought of jus taking it 10 mg an jus get thro it faster. Not sure but feel mess right now. Sorry so long. .

Your gp must be yr guide in this but 20mg is the initial therapeutic starting dose. So you May not be helping yourself here. Each time you raise the dose even by 5 mg you may get more side effects ...which isn't helpful for you when your anxious and frightened

I was a mess too at first

Now I am great.

I went on 20 mg from beginning

Hi Gillian and others

It's great to hear such positivity. I'm over 4 months in and yes I feel good too and do have the odd off day but that's ok I'm moving forward. I'm on 15mg and di want to go to just 10 but just seen that 29 is the thereputic dose so maybe stay where I am for now

Life is good once you get through the tunnel to the other side

Whilst 20 mg is the therapeutic starting dose , if your coping and improving on 15 mg that's AOK

Stay there

I will stay on this for life now ....I have learnt my lesson 😉🤓 but aim

To achieve that at a lower dose eventually wether it be 5/10mg I don't know

But I swear I am chemically deficient and need it

Hi Nicola just wondering how your feeling now I'm on week 6 and nit 2 bad.x

Hi

Thanks for asking. I'm a bit better in that I'm less depressed. I still get anxious and the worst part is the constant worrying about my situation and the future. I don't know if pills can stop worrying. I've started therapy and the worries have been constant since the session on Tuesday.

That's good to hear.x

I jus got bumped up to 15 for week then 20 is goal for awhile. Im.absolutley struggling bad right now with feeling like in a trance anxious no motivation brain fog. On 3rd day of increase. Depression here today to feeling like this is my life but i know logically thats not true.took some xanax take edge off. My legs feel like blocks like im jus stuck.

I have great empathy for you Tami

its not easy is it when you feel so awful worse than you were before probably and you just want to chuck in the towel 

been there...

yes 20 mg is the therapeutic dose and you need to get to that .....and stay on that for several weeks whilst your body and brain adjust 

I see I replied to you further back 

Get on the 20 mg, and see how you are after 4/6 weeks on that dose when I hope you should start feeling better then continue to feel so....I have no Idea why GPs even use  less than 20mh

It just prolongs the side effects and delays that light at the end of the tunnel coming on

Stick with it. Try meditation tapes and mindfulness along the way

Distraction. The gym getting out and about in the fresh air ....

you will ill get there, it just takes time...

Hi Tami, I know how you feel. I am nearly 4 weeks in and feel like hell. Mornings are the worst for me as far as anxiety the rest of the day I have to drag myself thru. No energy or motivation. We just have to stay as strong as possible and push on. We will get better there are many success stories here to confirm that. This is not your life just an adjustment to the meds. Message me anytime for support!

Yes there are Shane and I am one of them at week14

Stay strong. Keep going

Thanks so much for your kind words. Every bit of encouragement helps during these tough days.

Shane

I find every day I feel a little stronger

it keeps on improving

Keep at it , deep breaths head up and carry on 🤗

Good to read your positive story. I'm on cit 20 for 6 weeks now. Developed anxiety after xmas due to family issues. Then in the middle of it all i unfortunately lost my mum 4 weeks ago and I'm struggling. I do feel I'm not as bad as before but mornings are the worst. When I wake up I feel sick and nauseous and just dont want to face the day. It does improve as the day goes on but I just so badly want my old self back...never had anxiety issues before and finding it so hard. Negativity is killing me.......

Keep going

The light will slowly come back

I went back on them in jan too

Heavy caring issues with both my parents who died2 months apartthe yearbefore so I can empathise with you

You have had a lot to deal with that's compounding your recovery psychologically as well

Stick with it

Yes I would get up each morning and feel just the same but it worked for me 2013 so I knew I could come thru it although often felt like you that I wouldn't

Just like you may

I am medical person so in a way that helped as I understand but in those dark hours it still gave me the wobbles!

Keep going and come back and tell me yr fab

Have you read the article I posted about how Cit works? It's on this feed

hello did things get better for you? i feel like this its awful and i feel like ill never get bettter x