Wanting to get off of citalopram how to do it correctly?
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I have read some of these comments about stopping the citalopram and now I'm scared but I really want to stop taking it. I find it hard to stay awake and function I dont care about nothing. It's so hard to go to work I wanna sleep all the time and never want to do anything. I hate it!!! I just had my thyroid taking out out in November thought that would help but it didn't I'm still the same and my levels with the synthroid meds are perfect so it's not that. I work on a handicapp school bus as a aide , so if anyone can please guide me on how to gradually stop this medicine so that I don't get to many side effects. I am taking this for anxiety I didn't have any depression but it seems like I do now cause I feel like sh*t all the time!!! Please help thank you for listening to me rant !
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i was on them for 4 years ..i found the high dose gave me insomnia and profuse sweating
now that I have stopped these have gone..we are all different
the withdrawal. Symptoms came in waves ..mostly feeling of anxiety..but I was able to ride it out
please ask if you need any more info
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Woke up today, just very slow and my head still feels very heavy, but I am going to force myself to shower and dress and leave the house as I need to go to the post office. :S I have decided to try to force myself into action as much as possible to try to fight this. It doesn't help that I am recovering from tonsilitis (this stopped giving me bad symptoms from New Years Day) so it is hard to know exactly what is withdrawal and what is just ne getting over the tonsilitis - one of my reasons for stopping now! I figured if I felt sh*t already then I might as well feel a bit more sh*t!
I can feel my anxiety coming back but I got that when I reduced to 10mg and although it was scary I managed to deal and get it to a normal level for me, so hoping to do the same here. If I get no other withdrawal symptoms then I can cope... fingers crossed. Good luck to everyone else in the same boat!