Hi to whoever is reading this, my name is Jemma and i'm 41.
I switched over from Citalopram to Duloxetine 10 days ago. This section of the forum is very quiet as i don't think many people are on this AD but I wanted post my journey in here for anyone else staring this med.
There is a great thread further down from 'Mr Red Shirt' and i have read it a lot and really helped me starting this so i wanted to do the same for anyone else starting out.
I hang out in the Venlafaxine forum mostly as there are more people in there taking that and it's a very similar med so i've teamed up with them and they have been a massive support to me.
So i stopped the citalopram and had a night with nothing then i started my first duloxetine at 8:30pm the next evening at 20mg. My doc has started me low as i tend to get bad side effects.
Slept fine the first night and woke about 6:20am with high anxiety and really bad nausea.
Day 2 the nausea continued and i found eating little and often helped with it, also drunk loads of water as felt quite thirsty. Walked to the shop and felt a bit faint but eating when i got home helped. Also very sleepy. My doctor has given me some 2mg diazepam for the switchover.
Day 3 to 8 went very similar to the above, high anxiety, tired during the day, bad nausea, took 1 diazepam most days.
Day 9 Less tired and the nausea started easing, had a fairly calm day with no diazepam. I have been sleeping good but wake up quite early. I have also been making myself go for a walk every day even if it's only round the block.
Day 10 which is today - Woke at 7am with some anxiety but got straight up and made a drink, it then went again, have felt calm since. My get up and go has got up and gone though, could quite happily lay in bed all day and do nothing, which i won't do though. I can't really be bothered to do anything but i'm not anxious about it. I'm hoping this is the duloxetine stating to do something, i have a review in 2 weeks at the doctors and i can see me having to increase to 30mg but i'll see how things go. Having to make myself keep busy today to stop me just doing nothing. Till tomorrow.