citralopam user
03-01-10, 22:31
I was prescribed Citralopam after visiting my doctor and complaining of feeling very flat of mood, poor memory, fatigue, noticeable loss of drive generally and loss of libido (VERY out of character). I have always been prone to mood swings, but this was of a longer duration than I was used to, and had begun to concern me. I'm mid forties and otherwise in good health.
He conducted a range of tests to eliminate other explanations, including my own supposition - the male menopause. When I saw him to review the test results several weeks later, I was much better, but still sleeping very irregularly and this concerned him. I suspect that he remained alive to the symptoms that I had presented with when I first saw him.
He gave me 20mg, and I have just completed three months with a further two to go on 20mg, and a month on 10mg. I'm told that the positive effects often instate themselves as the status quo. I hope so, because this has possibly been the most stable period I can recall, and I have seen no downside to it, apart from occasionally feeling a bit nauseous if I dont have a decent meal after taking the tablet, and extra fatigue if I drink. I went through a spell of ferocious yawning mid afternoon, which has diminished, but nothing that I couldnt cope with very easily.
I wont pretend that I had no apprehensions about taking 'happy pills', and have told my wife but nobody else. I am marginally less sensitive of mood, but essentially I think very much the same person as before, just slightly less fine tuned.
I have felt overwhelmingly content, not in some artificial high fashion, but just untroubled by the down days I would encounter with some frequency, and by all accounts I am far easier to live with.
I'm less moved by emotional occasions. There's not the lump in my throat that sometimes appeared when touched by sentiment; the sentiment is still there, just not so extreme, in a way that was sometimes awkward.
I used to write and sense that this outlet has been dulled somewhat (it had been for a year anyway) but noticed the first stirrings of this re-surfacing last night - after a bottle of wine - which was always a good catalyst for seeing the world with a different mindset.
I have recounted this because although my symptoms are far less burdensome than those of some who have written on here, I hope that others whose symptoms are similar to my own find this informative if pondering on whether to take this medication.
I'm now wondering how I will be without it; not whether I'll cope - I was never remotely suicidal/struck by anxiety - and dont suppose that this will alter. I am simply enjoying this equilibrium, and would miss it, if it were to be lost to me again.
Any feedback on how others have found the post Cit period and whether it had the long term effect of stabilising their moods would be insightful.
Thanks.
He conducted a range of tests to eliminate other explanations, including my own supposition - the male menopause. When I saw him to review the test results several weeks later, I was much better, but still sleeping very irregularly and this concerned him. I suspect that he remained alive to the symptoms that I had presented with when I first saw him.
He gave me 20mg, and I have just completed three months with a further two to go on 20mg, and a month on 10mg. I'm told that the positive effects often instate themselves as the status quo. I hope so, because this has possibly been the most stable period I can recall, and I have seen no downside to it, apart from occasionally feeling a bit nauseous if I dont have a decent meal after taking the tablet, and extra fatigue if I drink. I went through a spell of ferocious yawning mid afternoon, which has diminished, but nothing that I couldnt cope with very easily.
I wont pretend that I had no apprehensions about taking 'happy pills', and have told my wife but nobody else. I am marginally less sensitive of mood, but essentially I think very much the same person as before, just slightly less fine tuned.
I have felt overwhelmingly content, not in some artificial high fashion, but just untroubled by the down days I would encounter with some frequency, and by all accounts I am far easier to live with.
I'm less moved by emotional occasions. There's not the lump in my throat that sometimes appeared when touched by sentiment; the sentiment is still there, just not so extreme, in a way that was sometimes awkward.
I used to write and sense that this outlet has been dulled somewhat (it had been for a year anyway) but noticed the first stirrings of this re-surfacing last night - after a bottle of wine - which was always a good catalyst for seeing the world with a different mindset.
I have recounted this because although my symptoms are far less burdensome than those of some who have written on here, I hope that others whose symptoms are similar to my own find this informative if pondering on whether to take this medication.
I'm now wondering how I will be without it; not whether I'll cope - I was never remotely suicidal/struck by anxiety - and dont suppose that this will alter. I am simply enjoying this equilibrium, and would miss it, if it were to be lost to me again.
Any feedback on how others have found the post Cit period and whether it had the long term effect of stabilising their moods would be insightful.
Thanks.