Hi, Hope You're Having A Good Day, I Have Been On Citalopram For 4 And Half Months, The First 2 Months on 20 Mg And The Rest On 40 Mg, For Anxiety, And Felt A Bit Good on 20 Mg, Just To Be Specific There Was An Evening Where I Felt Great Only For A Couple Of Hours, The Next Few Days After That I Felt Really Awful, So I Upped My Dose To 40 Mg, And I Have Been On It For 11 Weeks, The Thing Is I'm Still Feeling Awful, I Have A Couple Of Questions
1 - Should I Give This Dose A Bit More Time To See If It Works ? Or Get Back To 20 Mg ?
2 - Is " Derealization " A Symptom From Having Anxiety ?, And If It is, Will It End With Citalopram ?
3 - Any Good Feedback About Citalopram In Terms Of Social Anxiety ?
Any Answer Will Be Appreciated, Thank You ☺️
If you had been on a different medication before you were put on Citalopram how was that drug
You have been on this medication for four and a half months, if you feel a review on your medications may be a good idea, talk to your GP.
With regard your Derealiation, this was part of your condition, when you go for your Review, again discuss this with your GP
Regards your Citalopram I have been on 2mg now for near, around ten years and I am quite calm, I do not argue of loose my temper although I need to take Opiate type medications on top of Amytryptalene 75mg. I do get headaches every now and again. If my medications are working that is all I can ask for.
if you feel not very happy with the medication you are taking, talk with your GP and discuss a different way forward
BOB
Hi
I am in a kind of similar situation as you.
I have been on cit for nearly 5 months.
10 for a week
20 for a week
30 for 6 weeks
40 for 4 weeks
30 for 4 weeks
20 for 5 weeks
I felt good for first 7 weeks on it but 5 weeks into 30 crashed so after a week went to 40. I did notice some improvements but the side effects at 40 were intolerable so dropped to 30 still felt pretty bad so figured I d drop back to 20.
Since being on 20 I have not felt ok much. The odd day have been ok but generally I have been very depressed and anxious. I have moved my dose around a lot so that will not have helped but shocked at how bad I feel.
I am due to see my psychiatrist tomorrow and feelso confused. Should I stick it out on 20 for at least 8 weeks....so 3 more weeks or come off or switch meds.
I don t have any answers for you but given the amount of time you have been on it without moving your dose around really I would see your doctor. I would expect to see some improvements by now for you.
Do you feel worse than when you started it ?
X
thank you for replying
there was this one occasion where i felt great, on 20 mg, really really great, hadn't felt like that for years, very minimal anxiety, and the next day it's gone so ,is this a good sign that it will work ? , this my first ssri btw, the reason i'm asking these questions
is because i've learned so much from this forum, and your knowledge in terms of this illness is much more than my gp, i'm even thinking going to a diffrent doc, thanks .
I don t have much trust in the doctors either.
This is the first SSRI I have been on too but I am on another AD called mirtazapine as well. Not sure if that helps either.
It is so hard to know what to do it feels like anything is a risk. Stay on it or change. I have a 10 month old baby so can t be this I'll. How long is too long ?
Anyone got any answers for us ?
Sarah 2437
I take mirtazapine 45mg and citalopram 20mg. I've just had my mirtazapine increased from 30mg to the 45mg 6 weeks ago. I have another appointment to see my gp on the 5th January 2017. And if this combination is not working when I go to see her she is going to take me off of the citalopram and put me on venaflexene.Lots of people have great results from this combination. I am quite willing to make this change if I need to.
Hi Caroline
How long have you been on cit and mirt ? Is it helping at all ?
I think the psychiatrist will suggest swapping the cit with venoflaxin tomorrow.
Hi Sarah
I've been on AD that work on dopamine etc for 15 yrs. At one time I was on 90mg of douslepine
The doctor only added 10mg of citalopram 2yrs ago, then increased it buy another 10mg last year.
I think i need to come off of the citalopram and increase my dose of the dopamine enhancer.
So are you just on cit and mirt ?
Yes just on the mirtazapine and citalopram.
Looiks like we could be doing a similar swap soon.
Yes it does.
I usually stick with any changes for months, ,when they appear to not be working. But I refuse to do that anymore. I want to be well .
Me too.
It has been nearly 5 months on this combo. See psychiatrist today.
Any news on the appt? I too am struggling and I've been on for almost 4 months I think. I'm on Celexa and buspar, prior to the medicine I started feeling goofy headed like a spacey can't focus type deal also had pressure in my head for a while then the meds did take the pressure away but hasn't touched fogginess for more than a cpl hours a day on a good day, my wife just told me today my pupils were different sizes so I immediately started panicking, I've read on another site others have suffered this on both the meds I'm on. I'm just so ready to not have these symptoms and to move on with my life without the fear of life threatening illness completely taking over my life and the symptoms
Hi cody
I saw the psychiatrist and it was agreed things were nt working out on cit.
I was advised to drop to 10mg for 5 days then switch to venoflaxine. This is my 4th day on 10mg and since I dropped I have felt a lot better. I know this will probably not last as I have a bit of withdrawal coming uo but it has confirmed the side effects were too much for me.
I m very nervous about starting a new med and am considering staying on 10mg and seeing what happens....at least for a couple of weeks.
Overall I have felt a lot worse on cit even though I moved my dose around over the 5 months I have been a lot worse than before cit.
Hopefully withdrawal isn't to bad for you I see my physciatrist Friday, yesterday my one pupil was larger than the other which obviously I panicked lol I've been to scared to look today to see if it's back to normal but I've also read cit can cause this so I'm hoping for that as I'm having a really hard time accepting its anxiety in the first place because the only real symptom that I had was foggy kinda headed with almost like a pressure in my head which either in turn caused anxiety or the anxiety caused the symptoms if the dr has put you on another med maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing to start it on time you never know maybe that med is the answer and the longer you put it off the longer you might be avoiding feeling good you never know I'm just so ready to be back to my normal self it's driving me mad lol
Pressure and foggy head is one of my symptoms too.
Just worried if I start the new med on tues I will be I'll over xmas.....not that I feel well now.....just don t want to be worse.
A different size pupil cannot be anxiety.
Yea they say it can happen from buspar or cit my head pressure and foggy deal has been pretty constant so I'm getting used to it now I'm just hoping the new dr confirms it's anxiety and gives me med that takes it away lol
Hi Sarah 24378
I'm glad to hear that you feel a bit better now that you have made a cut on your citalopram.
The psychiatrist has given you venoflexene to take in place of the citalopram then. Let me know how you get on if and when you make the change.
I will be seeing my doctor on the 5th of January and she said if the combination of my citalopram and mirtazapine were not working, she was going to take me off of the citalopram and add venoflexene to the mirtazapine and try that.
I must admit I will be very nervous about any change to my medication. But I don't think that the citalopram is doing me any good, so am willing to try something else.
I am very nervous about the change. May give it a bit longer on 10mg of cit. Even go to 5mg.