I just wanted to feed back to you all how wonderful I am feeling week12 on citalopram 20 mg
This is my second time on this drug since 2013. With hindsight I should never really have come off it but stayed at a very low dose .
I spent hours..again ...researching the internet in the early stages. This time it took 6 weeks until I started to feel better. It had taken only 2 the first time
Yes I had all the side effects and felt much much worse whilst my brain waited to rewire itself in those initial weeks
It may not be the drug for everyone but it's worked wonders for me
So I just wanted to comfort and give empathy to those of you out there who are still on their journey
Thanks for your success story in the same and yes I felt my best after 3 months and are now 4 months down the line and feel back to normal and still in 15mg
I'm so pleased to hear that you're feeling so much better gillian . It took me from August to January to feel good again and finally got back to work. Still can't believe what a nightmare it's all been !
Hi Anna, briefly with no past history I was hit with a sudden wall of anxiety last summer , cutting a very long story short I started 10mg citalopram which was increased to 20mg 3 wks later. I had terrible side effects both on 10mg and then increasing to 20mg. Increased anxiety made me think I was going out of my mind. Combined with nausea and insomnia made life pretty miserable. I just felt exhausted and lost about two and half stone .
Gradually from going through every awful day to having better spells towards evening, life started improving. I felt a notice improvement towards Christmas and a definite improvement mid January. Strangely enough the sudden improvement followed a blip in which I was advised to go up to 30mg. I didn't, I prayed it was a blip.and it was. Valium and the support from this forum got me through such a terrible time! ..
I'm back at work fully now and coping in a very busy stressful environment, hang on in there Anna. Are you having some good days or parts of a day? If so then it's obviously starting to work . It's so hard
Thanks so much for getting back to me. It gives me hope that it took a while for you to recover. I have had good days but not recently (last 2 weeks have been tough) but yes, I usually feel better in the evenings and a couple of weekends ago I thought I was ok again.
Glad to hear you're back at work and you've put this ordeal behind you. Hopefully this is just a blip I'm having before an improvement.
Hi gillian, glad to hear it...I could have written this myself! I was on citalopram 20mg in 2013 for two years and had to go back on it last summer.... The side effects this time weren't as bad although it took six weeks for me to feel better, I feel good most of the time now and hope I can stay on the drug this time as it makes my life so much easier. I'm glad your having a positive outcome too.
I was off for 5 months in total- a long time! It's a strange one really because I love my job añd although it's very demanding both physically and mentally I never believed it was the cause of my anxiety. However, I had been pretty well over Christmas and then had a horrible blip 1st week in january and had an appt with my GP who signed me off another month and told me to increase the dose to 30mg.
This was a turning point because no way was I increasing the dose I just couldn't face it and also I didn't want to be off work for another month! I gathered that I would have to face work at some point and just phoned work and told them I was going back. Once I'd made my mind up I've never looked back. Never had any more anxiety, just got on with it although the phased return helped massively. Work were brilliant and I've never looked back although I'm exhausted when I get in.
I just don't like the thought of returning and not being 100%. I know that being off work now is not helping my recovery and that I will feel better once in there.
Zoe , I was exactly the same. I just wanted to be 100% but knew I would just have to bite the bullet and go back. That's what I did and been back 8 weeks now, I just dreaded the return of that horrible feeling. I think it'll take a long time until it's a distant memory but I am starting to distance myself from it now so hopefully as time goes on in won't think about it at all. Only time I notice I'm not as good is when I've not slept well.
Ha ha...It's fantastic to feel better isn't it. Life will always have its ups and downs but it's easier to cope isn't it. I was actually ok on the very low reduction dose I got down to in 2013. It was 6 weeks later I felt that I was slipping
this time when I do reduce ,if the gp says that, I may aim for lowest dose I can maintain on. Even if it's 5 mg. I should never have come off it
I am the same started to feel better at week 6 and now on week 8 feeling amazing. I didn't think it was possible for me to ever feel normal again it's a wonderful feeling
It's good to hear a positive story. I was on citalopram for years and was mainly fine, so I reduced them due to hunger issues. About a month ago I crashed badly, I have been back on them for a few weeks (just over 2 weeks at 20mg). I felt better last week, back at work, almost normal. Feel worse again this week, depressed and feel like part of my personality is missing
