Hi
I am on 40mg of Citalopram and about a week or so ago, I stopped taking them purely because of the side effects. I do not get many if any Citalopram side effects from the brand by "Bristol Laboratories" but the others give me side effects ranging from sexual to spots all over my body. The pharmacies in my area have suddenly stopped stocking that brand and they know that it is my preferred brand as this one pharmacy deals with and deals with all my other medication but sometimes I have to go to others if they don't have the Bristol labs ones, but the others don't have them anymore.
I put up with the others for about 4 months and now they are mixing two brands together (2x20mg) the side effects were really bad so about 8 days ago I just stopped taking them, all my spots are gone etc now.
I realise I should have just taken them slowly down and I know I need to take them because they actually help so please don't have a go at me for that, I know I should continue taking them but I wanted a few weeks break from the spots and other crap.
So now over the past week or so I have this weird feeling of feeling dizzy but not in the traditional way where you would see the room going in circles and feel unbalanced etc. it kind of feels like a tingling type sensation at the back of my head, kind of between my ears, it's really hard to explain.
I am just wondering if this is because of coming off the Citalolpram? I'm going to go back on it tonight, do I need to start off with 20mg again and after a week or so go back to the 40mgs?
I know it is chemically out of my system now but I prefer the side effects to this weird dizzy type feeling, sorry I can't explain it very well!!