I am currently on 40mg of Citalopram. Have been on that for a while, it does help with the anxiety some and the racing obsessive worrying thoughts.
But I've been having a few issues with the side effects such as a lot of jaw clenching, which leads to headaches, yawning a lot, emotional numbing to a certain extent and sexual issues and I've not really noticed a dramatic change in my mood other than not worrying quite so much and I have been out a few times on my own.
So I was at my doctors yesterday and she's now told me to have one night without taking the Citalopram and then go onto 15mg of Mirtazapine the following night.
Me being me, I came home from appointment last night and started Googling. Of course you hear mostly bad things online because if it's working and no problems people don't tend to need to post online about it.
But I've been reading all day as well and now I'm kind of nervous to take it. My concerns are, weight gain, I'm already about 7 stone overweight so I really really don't want to put on anymore weight as it's getting me down already and every story I've read online it's been they've put on weight and struggled to get it off or control the appetite.
The other thing is sleeping. Right now I don't usually have trouble sleeping, I do wake up sometimes a few times but always go back to sleep. I've read these can help your sleep, but some say when you come off them they then can't sleep. I don't want to create problems I don't have right now.
And the other thing is withdrawal from them. I've read lots of bad things. And I can't look to staying on them forever as I do want children so don't want to be on ADs when that time comes.
Any advice or anything would be helpful. As I'm once again scared to start a new medication.