TIREDNESS - COMMENTS PLEASE

Its ok, first of all dont worry please. I am on almost week 7 off these tablets and i am still tired, but when i have a nap in the afternoon when i awake i my anxiety strikes back with force just the same as i wake in the morning. These tablets will take time to work, i was upped to 40mg after 2 weeks which i think may have been a premature move. The best thing i can offer for advice is that it will get better, but you have to try and beat the beast yourself with courage and determination, i only thought this was after having a huge crying-panic-attack style thing last sunday.

I stood up and said enough!

I am now getting straight up getting on with things, you need to keep your mind active. You can only think of one thing at a time my CBT therapist says, and its true you can only think of one thing at a time, make that one thing something you enjoy. Just try it, if you fail, try again and so on.

For your crying issue its just a case of if you need to do it! just dont do what i was doing and enducing tears through listening to sad music. Crying is a release it will happen when it needs to. I am not sure where you live but the best thing i can suggest is to find a place you can just \"be\". For me its walking down a canal or across fields. Last week i was walking and crying constantly because i was in such a bad place but i did it. Fill your time with anything else apart from lying around, if you do that you will just keep thinking.

If you want to see my journey just look since my first post, recommend you do it will show you a perfect diary of my last 7 weeks. I hope this helps. See your time in this state as a kind of limbo where you just have to pass the time. I said to my parents the other day that i feel transparent and not full, but i am slowly getting there now i think and being filled back in again.

Another thing to do is post on here for support, my mobile WAP bill is huge due to me checking this forum constantly.

Hope this helps.

Hi citalaman

. . . and thank you so much for replying to my posting.

I have done as you suggested and read your past postings - my goodness, you have had a tough old run of it havent you?

However it does give me an insight and I feel that in time I will get better. I am trying to tell myself that the effects I am feeling are just the drug getting into my system and that has to be a good thing!

I have spells where I feel low and tearful then later the same day I feel pretty ok! Its very strange isnt it?

Half the day I could sleep for England and another I feel quite a lot better. It is good to know that the good will overtake the bad bit in time.

Many thanks for your advice.

Take care. I wish strength and good health to you

x x

PS maybe we should have a whip round for your phone bill ha ha

Hi inner strength

I too have been taking these for 7 weeks and am feeling allot better in myself but am still feeling tired sometimes but sometimes it is like a calmness rather than tiredness. I now feel I have a bit of \"get up and go\" and am starting to do things I used to do before this illness which before I had not realised I had stopped doing them.

Be patient and I am sure you will soon feel allot better soon and feel almost your \"normal\" self xx :lol:

Thank you Andrea

It is good to know that these symptoms ease and that you are feeling better than you have for a while!

I have had a better day today so am feeling more positive about the effect this medication can have!

I am sure with patience on my part I will soon be back where I want to be.

Thank you so much for responding. I wish you continued success and good health xx

Hi Innerstrength

Keep calm and be positive......things I should take heed of. I am ok at the moment in places I feel ok but tomorrow I will be out of my comfort zone and feel very anxious I have to travel with my boss & meet people I always speak to at work to on the phone but I am now going to meet them!!!! all anxious people know how hard this is . Will be thinking tomorrow if I feel uncomfortable about inner strength XXXXX

Hi Andrea

I am sure you will be fine tomorrow. Try to treat the new people as friends - if you feel uncomfortable or intimidated remember they are onlly people in the same situation as you. It is normal to feel a bit anxious or nervous in situations where you feel ill at ease but you will overcome that if you think to yourself - we are all the same.

Set yourself no goals, just little steps. Take the day a step at a time. The first part is the journey with your boss - once you have got to where you are meeting the people take the next step which is greeting the new people. I find if you set yourself small targets rather than treating the day as a whole big experience, its much easier to tackle.

I hope you have a really good day. Stay calm and relaxed and take it an hour at a time.

x x

hi innerstrength and everyone else

I have read your posts and can empathise. I am in the process of increasing my tablets from 10 to 20mg but I am doing it gradually as I have to work and my job is quite stressful. I have to say I don't feel good, banging headaches, want to cry and quite depressed. I felt much better and happier on the 10mg, but the doctor reckons I should still be on 20mg. How are you feeling now? I hope you are starting to feel better.

I have to say, this site is amazing, everyone is so lovely and supportive

best wishes

Mariex

Hi inner strength

I think we should post new experience as i do not feel this has been read properly by other suffers and I should join properly I know!!!! it is just time, i leave the house at 7 and back at 6,I do not work tue or weekends.

I feel really proud of my self meeting all these people today and I thought they do not know me as I am,they know me as a capable employee......do not know if you have you have not being doing stuff u used to do before ? are you feeling a bit better today ? you MIGHT go down a bit before you feel better.......Hope the sun is shining where u r :lol: :lol: ,

Hi again

I have now been on my increased dose (from 10mg to 20mg) for 10 days and today is the best day I have had in a long time - months in fact! I feel great. I am eating a bit better now and have more energy and get up and go.

When I was on citalopram before (7 yrs ago) I started off on 20mg and it took longer to get them into my system - but I was much worse then and I had stopped doing a lot of things - I didnt go out, didnt want to socialise and felt very withdrawn, miserable and flat.

However this time I recognised the symptoms a bit faster and \"headed them off\" before they got too severe. I started off with 5mg to ease them into my system, then 10 mg. I had no side effects with 5mg of course but had over 2 weeks of bad effects with 10mg. However, once I increased to 20mg the side effects had worn off in a week and I started to feel so much better and not so sleepy.

I feel the awful effects I had (and I had almost all of them on the list!) are worth it because I am now starting to feel more like myself again.

I hope everyone else sticks with it and soon feels much better.

Take care xx

your all very correct in your experiences probably would not be posting this now if it wasnt for this\"wonder drug\"have you ever drunk to excess on 20mg or more or once on it or omiited to take it for more than a couple of days yes ? 2 days after you feel like your on speed but then comes the downside like being in the bottom of a very deep hole and being able to see the sunlight above but never actually reaching it i have been on it for five years manage to keep down £25000 year job but im still not conviced are you uys

Good Morning Everyone

Hope all went well yesterday.

Sleep is best its better than been wide awake in the middle of the night.

Someone has set an alarm and it keeps going off :evil:

I don't sleep well at the best of times so i am really :x

It is beeping for about 5 secs and then stops and about 10 mins later it does it again. Its downstairs somewhere.

Lizzy