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Taking Citalopram second time, really bad side effects?

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lala25752
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Just need some encouragement. I had stopped citalopram for about 6 months after taking it for 2 years for anxiety. Citalopram worked great in those 2 years. However, anxiety came creeping back in after some big life changes. Last time i took 20mg straight away and had horrible side affects for about 2 weeks. I took time of work now as I knew side effects will be horrible initially. I am on 3rd day now and feel super bad, horrible increased anxiety, paranoia, nausea, tiredness. I know it should get better like it did last time. I am just need some hope as it is so hard to understand that it will get better again in a moment of anxiety? Anyone has any positivity to share who go trough the side affects and feel better. As i feel so hopeless. Also thinking if i should take 20mg now as i was taking 10mg for 3 days but last time i took 20mg straight away.

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    any support from others who have gone through the intense side effects for first weeks and then got better gratefully received. i feel anxious that its been 2 weeks and anxiety still really bad. worried that means its not going to work but i know that it can take 4-6 weeks to work so still need to just be patient. Lauren it helped you saying that it took 4-5 weeks to start working. its so hard when you feel so much worse than you did starting them.

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