Hi all
I am a newbie so please be gentle with me.
I have been on and off of 10mg of citalopram for the past 3 years or so.
It was working fine, but just before xmas 2012 I experianced really bad anxiety each morning until lunchtime - after lunch I'd feel fine all the way through until next morning...when I'd feel anxious again until lunchtime...every day.
My doctors 'upped' my dose to 20mg. I had the usual horrible side affects which never settled down at all (I gave it 8 weeks, and after 8 weeks thought enough is enough and went back down to 10mg again.
Down to 10mg and the side affects were all fine again...but - guess what - the morning anxery is back with avengence.
I swapped taking my pill from mornings to night time - but this has not done anything at all for the morning anxiety.
I just find it strange that the anxiety 'stitches off' at lunchtime (as long as I havent spent the morning stressing about my morning anxiety)....its annoying.
Does this mean my 10mg isnt enough, or does it mean that I have pooped (but why am I ok in the afternoons and evenings)? or it is a morning 'chemical' thing, such as cortisol or low blood sugar?
Oh - and if I take a Mirtazipine (doctors gave me when I was having sideys on the 20mg), I am generally fine for a few days!!
Help?...any ideas?