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I'm really putting the weight on i've been on citalopram about a year 6 months on 20mg and now 6 months at 10mg and my weight has gone from 9 and a half stone up to 12 and a half. I'm trying to cut down on food exercise but in all this all i can manage is to loose 1lb if any. I'm trying not to let it get to me, but just not used to this weight. Have gone up from a size 10/12 to a 16. I'm getting married next year and would love to be back to my normal weight, but have reservations about reducing my tablets its like a catch 22 situation. I feel depressed now about my weight which was never a problem.
Has anyone else experienced this? please let me know if you have and what you did about it....
Thank you in anticipation.
Hayley
:oops: Hi Polly 13, yes I wouls say I have definately gained some weight, even though I still cant eat very well, I would say nearly a stone, Ive been on 20mgs, then up to 20mgs for 10 months. I dont like going over 8stone so it really upsets me, but his is only a small part of the issues I have.
I have found that walking helps me. Hope you can find some relief somehow, it must be so difficult, one thing after another, yip!!!! Take care Polly 13,Katy
I also have gained weight, especially around my tummy, the citalopram work..but the weight gain is making me miserable..
I am now trying to come off them,,but am experiencing dizzy spells, and feeling sick.
I tried to come off slowly, one every other day then less and less.
I am determined to come off..after 3 yrs..
Does anyone experience these dizzy spells, also I am starting to feel the anxiety coming back,.
I was on Citalopram for about 18 months. I put on around a stone and it just wouldn't shift. When I asked my gp about it she said it was unlikely to be the cit, but she did arrange for me to have a thyroid function test and that came back normal.
Eventually I decided to come off it, and here I am, almost a year later and I've lost about 15lbs without really changing my diet or lifestyle. To my way of thinking the cit slowed everything down, even my metabolism :lol:
Rozzy, you are right about coming off them really really slowly. I went down from 20mg a day to 10mg, then 10mg every other day for a couple of weeks, then every third day for a couple of weeks and so on. Eventually it got to a week between doses and it didn't seem worth taking it.
If you are feeling dizzy and anxious, you're coming off too quick. Try taking one tablet one day, then 1/2 a tablet the next, then one whole one the next and so on before you go to one tablet every other day. It does take a long time, but you have been on them a while and it will take your brain some time to get used to being without them.
I'm no dr, just talking from my experience. Hope this helps.