Scarlett77
03-05-07, 01:15
Hi,
I started citalopram 20mg a week and a bit ago for social anxiety disorder and agarophobia. i just felt a bit dizzy and headachy at first, which is fine - i'd expected to have to deal with some side effects. Also i'd taken it before a few years back and had that kind of thing - no big deal.
However, for the last few days i've felt increasingly paranoid (much, much more so than i usually do), on edge, tetchy, and argumentative (and i'm usually pretty placid). My heart is near constantly racing, my teeth are killing because i keep clenching them together (god knows why, definitely don't normally do it), and i've lost my appetite and i usually love my food. i know that last one isn't so much of a problem, in fact could be a positive thing(!), but the others are getting a bit too much. i'm considering stopping the citalopram, but i've a feeling i'm just being silly and maybe all this will pass soon enough? i'm just feeling much worse than i did before, with no positives, not yet anyway. Anyone else had anything like this?
Apologies if this has been talkied about before - I did do a quick search to see if anyone else had written something similar but couldn't find anything. Sorry it's a little long too, and maybe i'm overreacting, but any help would be much appreciated. Thanks,
Scarlett
I started citalopram 20mg a week and a bit ago for social anxiety disorder and agarophobia. i just felt a bit dizzy and headachy at first, which is fine - i'd expected to have to deal with some side effects. Also i'd taken it before a few years back and had that kind of thing - no big deal.
However, for the last few days i've felt increasingly paranoid (much, much more so than i usually do), on edge, tetchy, and argumentative (and i'm usually pretty placid). My heart is near constantly racing, my teeth are killing because i keep clenching them together (god knows why, definitely don't normally do it), and i've lost my appetite and i usually love my food. i know that last one isn't so much of a problem, in fact could be a positive thing(!), but the others are getting a bit too much. i'm considering stopping the citalopram, but i've a feeling i'm just being silly and maybe all this will pass soon enough? i'm just feeling much worse than i did before, with no positives, not yet anyway. Anyone else had anything like this?
Apologies if this has been talkied about before - I did do a quick search to see if anyone else had written something similar but couldn't find anything. Sorry it's a little long too, and maybe i'm overreacting, but any help would be much appreciated. Thanks,
Scarlett