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Citralopram Starting out (day 3)
Hi everyone,
Just starting out on 10mg of citralopram and wondering if there are anyone out there are doing the same or have any words of advice or tips to keep me going strong!!
I'm not sleeping good during the night but then shattered during the day. Woke up on after taking it the first night vomiting but haven't since just retching for 5-10 minutes. Waking up at daft o'clock. Day 1 and 2 couldn't eat however I have really forced myself today to eat and have drank lucazade to keep me going.
My head feels a bit fuzzy and I feel a bit odd but not too odd.
Has anyone had any success on only taking 10mg or have they had to up their dose to feel any real benefits?
Any advice or comments welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Kendra x
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hi kendra the first couple of weeks taking citalopram can be tough, what you are having are the initial side effects, the good news is that they go, and your sleep will become better, and your stomach will settle down, they can also cause an increase in anxiety.
don't worry, carry on taking them, you will soon feel better, 10mg is the usuall starting dose, and 20mg the lowest theraputic dose.
you will begin to feel the benefits soon, so hang on in there xxx
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hi
I started on 10mg which I took for 2 weeks and after about four days of feeling awful I did start to see a slight improvement. Did one week at 15 mg and have now been on 5 weeks at 20 mg not many more side effects apart from heightened anxiety but that could be down to my mind working overtime and a few anxious thing going on in my life. My son and daughter in law had twins yesterday afternoon a boy and a girl so I might settle a bit now.Here's hoping anyway.
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Hi Pinkdove, Bet your sick of me?? Lol. The SE are manageable at the moment not nice but manageable. I just want to wake up normal back to my old self desperately. Thank you for your reply. (Again) x x
Hi stamags, Congratulations on the birth of twins!!! Lovely news. Thank you for replying. Hope tomorrow is the last day of feeling so pants!!
I'm trying not to think about it too much. The anxiety is there got that horrible lump in my throat again. Hate that!!
Take care
Kendra x
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Hi Kendra I took cit and they were great but they did take a while to kick in. I am so sorry I just stopped them.
I have had to come home from Ivans as I have been bad today and yesterday it could be the sert starting to make my mind overactive and my fears seem big I have upped my dose from 50 to 100 as I know 50 is a low dose. I am so fed up with my irrational thoughts it is spoiling my life.
How are you today?
Cathy xx
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I am on 40mg of citralopram, dont worry all the side effects i.e not sleeping etc soon go and you will notice a big improvement !!! stick with it :)
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cathycrumble
Hi Kendra I took cit and they were great but they did take a while to kick in. I am so sorry I just stopped them.
I have had to come home from Ivans as I have been bad today and yesterday it could be the sert starting to make my mind overactive and my fears seem big I have upped my dose from 50 to 100 as I know 50 is a low dose. I am so fed up with my irrational thoughts it is spoiling my life.
How are you today?
Cathy xx
Hi Cathy, not so bad today just feel exhausted. Sorry I haven't emailled you but didn't want to bother you while you were away with Ivan.
Aww Cathy hun i'm so sorry your not feeling good and that you have had to come away early. Sending big hugs :hugs::hugs::hugs:
We have just got to be brave don't we but its so hard!! I wish we were normal again!! Are you worrying about your BP??
x x x
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Shellbell80
I am on 40mg of citralopram, dont worry all the side effects i.e not sleeping etc soon go and you will notice a big improvement !!! stick with it :)
Thats good don't know how much more tired I can feel really!! Plus I love my sleep!!!! Thank you for the reply!!
x x x
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I know it is a stupid fear but I just cant get the thought of me going to have it done as I get so so nervous and I dont know why as it is ok when I go I just cant understand my fear. If I could just relax and think rationally my nerves are shattered.
And I am so tired also but cant sleep properly wake so early and my thoughts are on going.
I am sure the cit will work well for you.
feel bad that I left Ivan but just couldnt relax was shaking. and sick no apitite.
He understands
Cathy xx
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Hi Cathy - when we are anxious our bodies become sensitized - everything is out of proportion, irrational, that is my problem at the moment - keep waking up - I have never had this - but hopefully when the meds settle everything will get better. Laura
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Kendra = hope you'll feel better soon with the Cit x:hugs:
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I totally know how you are feeling Cathy and it is not nice at all. I am sure that the sert. will work for you we both just need to give it time and try together to get through these awful SE's and terrible feelings that we have. Keep remembering that your BP is fine that you are fine its just the anxiety taking over.
Don't feel bad about leaving Ivan like you said he understands.
I have been trying my hardest today to eat little bit regularly. So far it has been working. I don't want to eat and if I do it takes me ages to do it. The best things that I have been able to eat have been fruit, Porridge, yogurt and tomato soup.
Have a go at eating some of these every couple of hours. Even if you take a few bites or mouth fulls its better than nothing!!
Kendra x x
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Thanks Laura, hope your doing ok?? x
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At the minute I have that horrible nervous lump in my throat!! I hate that too wish it would do one!!! x
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ye I will try to eat those I have got porrage and son and ex just gone to get chinese so may have a nibble I cant belive how I have changed from in the week I was feeling quite calm and in control.
You are so right laura how our nerves become sensitised and everything is scary to us. I know this but it is so hard to tell mysellf it is just my nerves making things out of proportion. I had a bout of bad nerves years ago and i got out of it without meds just by reading claire weeks book. but this time I just cant rise above it.
I know Kendra I have got to believe my BP is fine because it is. my CBT therepist thinks I may have health anxiety. but I will see how I go. I hope she can help me gain confidence. I feel for my poor children well they are grown up but they are worried about me and I dont know what to do. They want their old lively mum back who is always up for a laugh. :mad:
Feels like I got a big brick in my stomach. I know what you mean about the lump in the throat its awfull.
Cathy xx
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hi
Kendra i feel for you as the reaching i had when first starting was horrible but thankfully it only lasted a few days so hopefully yours will too and my appetite came back in the 3rd week just lived on toast and bananas and them mini ginger bread men !!!
hope you also feel better soon cathy :hugs:
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Thanks Angel. Are you taking cit? How long have you been on your medication.
Cathy xx
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hi cathy
yes im on cit ..week five at 10mg at the moment i asked to increase last week but the dr suggested i take a beta blocker along side it rather than increase but i haven't tried it yet,was also tapering of amitryptline been on it a few years and i stopped 3 days ago x
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I think the 20mg is better for anxiety but I am sure the gp has reasons to keep you on the 10mg as long as it is helping you .
Cathy xx
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that's what i thought... i had been getting the shakes so he said it might help but i haven't had them for a few days now ..so didn't bother taking the beta blockers,going for a blood test on the 12th to see if everything else is ok but he wasn't keen on upping so i will see what he says in a few weeks after ive had my bloods done.
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Good idea just take it slowly going up a dose.
Cathy xx
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yes im in no rush but would like to feel better sooner rather than later but as long as im coping for the minute im trying to limit what im taking to see what works best for me.
have had anxiety for 4 years and chopped and changed meds a few years back which made me worse... so a few months of seeing how i go doesn't seem long x
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yes deffo think that is what's happend to me since sep 2010 I have swapped meds and has set me back just trrying to get one to help me. I did take cit and it took 3 months but I was great so I stayed on it for another 3 months then because i felt great I stupidly stopped it what a mistake that was went right back to square one.
So on sertraline now and suffering a bit the last few days I have been on it just over a week.
Cathy xx
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Day 4.
Morning everyone,
How are you all today??
Woke up this morning at 5.30am bit of a lie in!!!! Tried to go back to bed and just tossed and turned. The Anxiety has hit me more today. Just lay in bed thinking to myself this is going to happen before I get better ride through it. Went back to bed at 6.30 to just lie there. Mind chatter loads of thoughts going through my head racing really fast. It was really bad this morning. Thoughts about nothing!!!
Going to try hard to eat again today, think it helps when I do. Wish I could shake this odd feeling off though. It lingers over me like a cloud!!
My hubbys out all day at the football, my mams popping over later so its just me and our Wills today! Hope I cope ok?? Why am I even thinking that way?? Wouldn't normally bother me!!
Arrrrgh I am sick of this now!!
Kendra x
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Hi Kendra, im day 10 on cit (20mg) and slept through the night for first time last night, i too was waking at around 5.30 each day. so it will get better. my appetite is a lot better too, so wishing you the same xxxxxx
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Morning Kendra - I know - everything gets out of proportion - things that don't normally bother us do now! Just day 2 of Sert (have halved the dose to 50mg) as very anxious yesterday on 100mg - feel a bit spaced out but managed to have some toast and peanut butter!!! hate the stuff normally.
I hope you have a better day - it does take time and we want to feel well now! Keep in touch Laura x:hugs:
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Thanks guys, my anxiety is bad today, I know I have to go through this to come out the end but its just so hard isint it?
Need to distract myself I think. Was going to go for a walk with the little fella but its started snowing now!!
Wish i'd started on the meds sooner rather than trying to do it myself!!
Thats for all the support!! x x
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Kendra it is the meds that is doing this to you as I am in the same boat and I am going to stick with them as I cant be the only person they wont work for they have got to work for me I just hope I dont have to wait 10 weeks like some one said. I have just had a piece of toast and two paracitalmols as got a sickly headach also and a few missed heartbeats.
I am sure we will all get through this.
It is very sunny here in liverpool. but I am just going to stay in.
Laura hope you ok I felt find on sert the first few days calm infact. But I know all these type on anti ds do have side effects and they effect all of us in defferent ways I just dont want to be a coward I got to stick with it.
Cathy xx
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Hi Cathy,
I have every intension of sticking with it, and I too dont want to have to wait 10 weeks or so to feel better.
Ive had some porridge and just been nibbling on bits of fruit here and there.
Just feel so tired, and cant concentrate very well on things. I think I really need to stop moping about as well. Its doing me no good what so ever.
Just wish someone had some answers for me!!
Kendra x x
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Shellbell80
I am on 40mg of citralopram, dont worry all the side effects i.e not sleeping etc soon go and you will notice a big improvement !!! stick with it :)
hi , how long have u been on citalopram ? and when did u notice a difference in yourself please ?ive been on citalopram for 8 weeks now (40mg for 2) xx
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Hi ladies - sorry Kendra you are still having a rough time - it will pass - we will all get there in the end - x
Kathy - yes I do feel very tired today - lying on sofa - it's pouring of rain - just got a fillm on - feel better with the 50mg for time being - less anxious at the moment anyway - when will it all end - you think - don't you - want to be my old self again - like you all do! Speak to you soon Laura x
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Would just do anything to feel normal again. My mams been here with me all day as was really nervous about being on my own with our Wills incase I felt too bad to look after him!!
I am just not like that at all usually. She must be getting sick of me now!!! Honest wish I would wake up in the morning and just be me!!!
x x x x
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No one know until they been through it. I am mad I had to leave Ivan early through this b******g anxiiety but I know it is the SE kicking in been having waves of sickly panic starting in my middle and working its way through my body makes me shake.
I hate going the shops and seeing people laughing and looking so relaxed and chilled and I say to myself that used to be me not a care in the world. It just anoyes me so much.
We just got to accept the SE and work through them.
Cathy xx
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Yeah your right Cathy, My mam just said to me earlier how have you been feeling today then? I said like a nervous wreck. She said I didn't think you were that bad today!!! Just goes to show how good I am at acting and just carrying on with things!! Thats when I can like.......
I just keep thinking when I was on Prozac the fourth day I didn't even leave my bed so it cant be all that bad.
Please please please let these meds work for us all this time!! x x
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yes prozac was the pits alright. OMG it was awful. I just wish I had stayed on the cit this time last year I had been on them since I became ill in the sep and I felt great this time last year and because i felt brill I came off them in the april. God am I sorry. So you will be fine.
And at the begining I had terrible retching of a morning but it didnt last long.
Cathy xx
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Prozac was terrible!! Funny it worked for me 12 years ago but wow this time ill!!
I feel a bit odd as well, cant concerntrate properly and my head feels heavy!! Kind of just handling it at the moment cos I am hoping it will go away!!
Just trying to force an egg salad down me neck. No wonder I have the runs on a morning all I do is eat fruit veg and salad!! Lol
Not going back to work either tomorrow going back to the docs. Just can not face it just yet!!
Are you feeling any better as the night goes on??
x x
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Day 5
Morning everyone!! Hope you are well??
God I'm shattered been awake most of the night again. Woke up retching again. Took my tablet last night and just panicked and panicked about it!! Why it was my 5th tablet??? Feel totally anxious this morning more then usual. I just want to be able to sleep and not feel sick on a morning.
How many more days of this do I have to take?? Am I just being a whimp?? Another day of forcing myself to eat it is then!!! I just want to be normal!!!
Kendra x
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Morning Kendra, I was same as you for 6 days then it got easier, i am now day 11 and its the first day ive felt like doing something so hopefully getting there. it does take time but it will be worth it. my appetite has now come back too. not long now your nearly there :-) xx
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Aww thats made me feel so much better thank you. You have made me cry. I feel so rough. Sat here forcing porridge down me to keep me going been on with it 20 minutes!!!! I hope I am like you please please let me be like you.
I'm at the doctors ay 1pm to have a chat etc and get a sick note for work.
Wish I could curl up in a ball until I feel better.....
Its great you feel like doing something today. Fab news. Well done you!!
So pleased for you!! x x
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Kendra I always took my cit in the morning with breaky if I could manage it. I am like you at the min feeling sick in the mornings and as the day goes on not too bad. But I just dont want to do anything but I have been like this since I came off the cit bloody annoyed I came off them.
You will just have to force the food down you like me. I look a mess. feel like i did when I started prozac but not as bad.
I am dreaming I am normal again which is great then I wake up and I am in a living nightmare. no wander I find it hard to get up.
The cit will be great for you once they start working.
keep me posted.
Cathy xx
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Hi Cathy - sorry you are feeling crap again - I have felt a bit squeasy but still managing to eat a bit. Not so tearful today but still on 50mg - see how it goes - take care Laura x
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It is a living nightmare. I hate this and wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I am sooo tired and fed up of not living my life like I should.
Its the complete pits........
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:yesyes:Ladies we are in this together so we will give each other motivation. And we WILL get through this.
Just got to get passed the withdrawals.
Keep smiling :D
Cathy xx
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Day 6
Morning all,
Good thinking Cathy!!! How are you all this morning?
I had a better nights sleep last night but woke at 4.45 in a bit of a panic nothing really bad. Still retching but was sick. Still feeling quite anxious.
Going to try and keep busy today and not think about symptons. Dont know how I am going to stop thinking about it but I am going to try. Think I make myself worse chewing over them all the time.
Got to reapply for my job and the application form needs to be in Friday so really must get that sorted out. And get my ass into gear!!!
Kendra x
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