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I took 90mgs of citalopram last night, with lots of eving primrose oils.. downed with a bottle of wine. Partner was annoed with me, I had had enoug.......feeling okay, but everything feels abit blurry numb, though calm. :oops: :cry:
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First off! You bloody stupid woman! How could you do that to your children? They haven't hurt you - he has!!!!!
Now the telling off is over - get to your local A&E and get checked out! You go and get checked out for you kids sake - they need you!
Do you want my home numbver so you can ring me?
Melbi xxx
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Fatal dose not known. Patients have survived ingestion of up to 2 g citalopram. The effects will be potentiated by alcohol taken at the same time. Potential interaction with tricyclic antidepressants and MAOIs.
Symptoms
Nausea, vomiting, sweating, tachycardia, drowsiness, coma, dystonia, convulsions, hyperventilation and hyperpyrexia have been reported. Cardiac features that have been observed include nodal rhythm, prolonged QT intervals and wide QRS complexes. Prolonged bradycardia with severe hypotension and syncope has also been reported.
Rarely, features of the \"serotonin syndrome\" may occur in severe poisoning. This includes alteration of mental status, neuromuscular hyperactivity and autonomic instability. There may be hyperpyrexia and elevation of serum creatine kinase. Rhabdomyolysis is rare.
Management
Management should be symptomatic and supportive and include the maintenance of a clear airway and monitoring of cardiac and vital signs until stable. Consider oral activated charcoal in adults and children who have ingested more than 5 mg/kg body weight within 1 hour. Observe for a minimum of 4 hours due to long half life of citalopram.
Control convulsions with intravenous diazepam if they are frequent or prolonged. An ECG should be taken.
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Citalopram hydrobromide has a wide margin of safety in overdose. Cases of overdoses involved the ingestion of citalopram either alone or in combination with other drugs and/or alcohol. In clinical trials, with overdoses of citalopram ranging from 180 mg to 2000 mg, all patients recovered. One patient, ingesting over 1500 mg citalopram, had reversible ECG abnormalities, the most important of which was prolongation of QTc.
Of the cases reported postmarketing, six were fatal. The doses of citalopram in these patients ranged from 840 mg to 1960 mg. All but one of these patients had concomitant drugs and/or alcohol. Serum levels of citalopram in patients who ingested 2000 mg, 4000 mg and 5200 mg of the drug were 2900 ng/mL, 3800 ng/mL and 10,040 ng/mL citalopram, respectively. All these patients recovered. Three fatal cases of serotonin syndrome have been reported in patients who took overdoses of moclobemide (Manerix) and citalopram. The plasma concentrations of moclobemide were between 16 and 90 mg/L (therapeutic range: 1 to 3 mg/L) and those of citalopram between 0.3 and 1.7 mg (therapeutic concentration: 0.3 mg/L). This indicates that a relatively low dose of citalopram, given with an overdose of moclobemide represents a serious risk for the patient.
Symptoms most often accompanying citalopram overdose included dizziness, sweating, nausea, vomiting, tremor, and somnolence. In more rare cases, observed symptoms included confusion, loss of consciousness, convulsions, coma, sinus tachycardia, cyanosis, hyperventilation and rhabdomyolysis.
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How did last night go, was it okay?
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kimoli
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melbi..good for you girl.glad you got it sorted last night..(dirty stop out :twisted: )..just jealous!! good on u.kim.xx
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How are you feeling now?
Melbi xxx
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How are feeling today? Any yukky side effects from the 90 mg you took?
Hope you are feeling better.
Love
Melbi xxx
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Oddly, strange, but I feel better than ever.........though this house /flat is still a dump/a mess........and grrrrrrrrrr! Its getting to me, but apart from that I am good, becca is running about pretending shes snow White....and I am thinking .....wow! You are so special.........a complete raskel though, but still little, cheeky and hilarious..............the older one is busy pretending to be grown up, .....Get this melbi, she even tried to make her bed this morning......Pfff! made me chuckle, cause what a mess!!! But I loved it.
So I am good.
how are you? Have your barin zaps stopped yet?
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Nah - the minute I try and walk around or do something other than lie fairly still - the brain goes off on one, they are making me feel really sickly now.
Still, it is still far better (for me anyway) to suffer these than to be how I was while on the citalopram. At least I am feeling better in myself - stronger, more positive and more importantly of sane mind - which I most certainly didn't feel while taking them.
Stupid doctor for giving me them in the first place - I am not impressed with her ability to sit there and write out such a prescription and give no thought of the consequences or affect they might have had on me - they did have on me and now having to go through all this to get myself back to how I was the day I went to see her about my insomnia. No - I won't ever be making another appointment with her and I will be voicing my disgruntled opinions of her when I see another doctor.
Yes - I am feeling very bitter at the moment towards the medical profession - in future I will be the one that tells them what I need and what will help - not them scribbling on a piece of paper and showing me the door so they can scribble another prescription for the next person.
Idiots!
Keep your chin up Katy and enjoy your well being :D
Melbi xxx
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Melbi xxx
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If you feel that good after taking 90mg than maybe I should take a handful. It might help to pick me up.
Feeling fed up today and can't get out of bed.
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I dont know kids are now pretending to be me, and I am pretending to be them. Easy peasy......trash the house, eat lots os sweets......then mummy can I have a cuddle? Pretend to be Snow White, watch some///really awful tv programmes, go to park, and then tea, bath and bed at 8 or maybe 9 depending on how lucky I am. get a story , a song, and sleep.
What was that you said about side effects?
Making my breakfast, and started to panic about CHRISTMAS!!! Huh, I know that years are flashing me by, but WAIT ....can I have summer first?
Inside, i feel much happier!
Asking children questions, \"Are you pair having fun?\"
Okay must go, need to clean those raskels, they need a bath!!!
Hope you are okay melbi, are you ?
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Just go with the flow - resign yourself to the fact you need to stay in bed today and do it! End of!
Katy aka Snow White - perhaps you need to speak with your doctor and ask if he/she will increase your dose?
I'm fine as long as I don't move around too much :shock:
They aren't anywhere near as bad as last night and are bearable - more a damn pain in the backside than unbearable! An inconvenience!
They will pass and that is what I keep telling myself and until then I will (because I can) take things very easy.
Melbi xxx