Re: Help please...cipralex to citalopram to cipralex again
Most of the writeups I've seen for both citalopram and escitalopram talk about them having atleast a 2 week period for taking or losing affect. So if you took the citalopram for 8 days you probably got into the worst part of the differences between both drugs. You got 8 days of sideeffects into citalopram and so I reckon you've got as long to flush it completely out of the your system. But thats only a guess.
They talk about these having a half life of about 36 hours for the active part of the medication. So the blood level halves every 36 hours. Some medicine writeups admit that these sorts of drugs can effect the brain for a different period than the apparent blood/body levels. eg. I've just started buspirone and the writeups explicitly state that the active chemical process and its half life appears to be very different from the apparent biological levels. Its very different from the SSRIs you mentioned BUT does show that anything is possible.
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Kevin, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK
Probably GAD & Phobias. Anxiety and renewed Depression medicated (Venlafaxine). Trying to improve.