Citalopram experiences?
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I was on it for a while after I had my first kid. We had to keep upping the dose for me. Unfortunately I had to stop around 4 years of taking it because it was causing my anxiety and blood pressure to go crazy. Overall I had good experiences with it
I had a really good experience with it and was on the lowest dose for around 3 months combined with CBT before weaning off. I hadn’t wanted to be on medication long term so found this helped me just keep things at bay and stop panic attacks etc / calm me while I learnt coping mechanisms and talked things through and put other things in place to reduce stressors. I tried sertraline first and had a very bad experience - one tablet of the lowest dose and I was looney all day / felt actively high and ended up in A&E with a complete memory wipe / not being able to ‘think’ sentences until it wore off after 12 hours…. Very frightening and I’m not sure if me just being super sensitive to SSRIs maybe made Citralopram extra effective for me too (although no bad side effects with that one/it seemed to strike the right balance)
Been on it for 6 years with slight increases after having a baby and suffering from PPD but I have no issues. Keeps me awake at night if I take it too late but nothing crazy
Yes but I stopped using it because I would zone out a lot. When I stopped taking it , it made me really depressed and suicidal.
@Amy oh my gosh I had a similar experience with setraline although not as bad as yours! I was on citalopram for years and weaned off that before becoming pregnant with my third.. in the third trimester I was prescribed setraline as my anxiety was really really bad… one tablet and I felt like I was high, heart palpitations, dizzy, insomnia… too scared to try it again
Keep in mind, everyone is different and different medications work differently for different people. For me, I was on it for a very short time because it made me suicidal. That said, my husband has taken it for years and it works very well for him with the only side effect he experiences being a sexual one.