Depression

[kaz7]

Don't mean to bring the mood down this week but, is anybody on here on citalopram?

Yes 30mgs a day , combined with mitrazapine 45mg at night i am well controlled . It took about two weeks or so to get used to the side effects but i am settled with the odd flare up in anxiety

 

[Marklr]

Yes 30mgs a day , combined with mitrazapin 45mg at night i am well controlled . It took about two weeks or so to get used to the side effects but i am settled with the odd flare up in anxiety

I'm only on 20 mg a day...but I'm getting all the "brain zaps". I tried quitting by going down to 10mg and that's when they started. I went back to 20 mg and it's worse now! All the time.

 

[Marklr]

i was and went off it. if you can stick to sertraline.

Saying that i have just had my dose upto 100. was all the way down to 50mg

Did yo get the "brain zaps" when you came off citalopram?

 

[Keith Moncrieff]

Don't mean to bring the mood down this week but, is anybody on here on citalopram?

Citalopram nearly sent me over the edge, horrendous side effects. I’m on 15mg mitrazapin, helps with sleep and appetite

 

[kaz7]

I'm only on 20 mg a day...but I'm getting all the "brain zaps". I tried quitting by going down to 10mg and that's when they started. I went back to 20 mg and it's worse now! All the time.

How long have you been on it ?

 

[mackenzie]

I was on citalopram about 20 years ago. Certainly helped at the time.
Coming off it (after about 3 years) wasn't good though.
Had the odd suicidal thought.

 

[Marklr]

Citalopram nearly sent me over the edge, horrendous side effects. I’m on 15mg mitrazapin, helps with sleep and appetite

I'll ask the doc about them...it's just getting off the citalopram that puts me off.

 

[Marklr]

I was on citalopram about 20 years ago. Certainly helped at the time.
Coming off it (after about 3 years) wasn't good though.
Had the odd suicidal thought.

Yeah..I'd say they helped me initially.

 

[Marklr]

How long have you been on it ?

Since 2004!! I was chronic alcoholic and I believe they helped me recover... but now I'm getting all these effects since trying to come off them.

 

[kaz7]

I have been on antidepressents for about fifteen years , started with something different but it never suited me , never had the anxiety till much later , it paralysed me literally in my bed , the citalopram sorted that but i had to go to the thirty dose , last year i had a day i was paralysed in my bed but that has been the one off, post covid , long covid caused that . I speak to my dr frequently and have agreed i am on them for life , i am fine with that , it is a chronic illness like every other , it is no shame to be on them