Citalopram & Alcohol...

[blooming]

Citalopram and alcohol put me in a state I´ve never been before. Dizzy, losing balance and "brain dead", looking and feeling terribly drunk. Can only sleep for a few hours and wake up with the worst hangovers of my life. And then the guilt comes and makes me feel more depressed...
I stopped drinking now and for all - I don´t recomend more than 1 glass of wine or 1 pint of lager. Or better, no alcohol at all, it will probably help you to feel better not drinking and making some heatlhier changes in your life - medication does not do miracles, it just helps you to keep going, but the change has to come from within..
all the best

[Sarah26]

Hi I have been taking citalopram 40mg for 3 months I have been drinking on them I do agree it makes u feel 100% worse the next day, but every thing in moderation and you will be fine.

[kt79]

I did not drink at all for the first 3 weeks of taking this medication and the first time I did drink I felt awful but recently have found that I am fine after drinking (well no worse than usual!) I know you should not drink on them but personnally I like to socialise with my friends and knew that I would not be able to not drink for months on end. I felt that the enjoyment I got out weighed the negatives. I would advice not drink to often though and really monitoring what you drink at first because everybody can react differently. Probably should not say this but I like the effect of drinking on these tablets, not sure if its because my mood is better but im defo having more fun. I would make sure though that the people you are with know that you are taking these tablets and that you feel safe with them and are in a safe enviroment. Hope this helps

[john1]

[quote=donkaz;466412]Hi,ive been on Citalopram for 3 days now...i take 1 Citalopram 20mg in the mornings,and tonight im going to a party with some friends and will end up getting drunk(and when i say drunk i mean about 8 cans of Fosters (Larger) ),i always drink Fosters (Larger),is it safe to drink alcohol while i take these,have any of you tried it or had experience with it?

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I found that citalopram gave me an intolerance to alcohol and I could only drink small amounts compared to the much larger qauntities I could handle before being on the pills. It also made me feel very rough the next day.I have now been off Citalopram for 11 days and had a few drinks last weekend and found I can now tolerate twice as much.But still not quite as much as before I started on Citalopram. I beleive this will improve over the next few weeks.