I’m on day 18 of 10 mg cipralex for severe panic disorder and c-ptsd. I have taken this medicine last year during a breakdown after unrelenting panic attacks but after 5 months thought I was feeling so well I didn’t need it anymore...you learn the hard way! I can’t really remember the time scale last year of feeling dire to feeling better but it was definitely a gradual process. I had made myself extremely physically ill also so it was a long road....
I was in pretty bad shape the first week I was on it this time but it was difficult to differentiate between my sky high anxiety levels and possible side effects so I just rode it out the best I could. Day 14 I was feeling good, no panic attacks and my obsessive ‘doom’ thinking seemed to be feeling like it was letting up! Mornings are hard for me I wake up feeling extremely nauseated, shaky, panicky and just generally really ill but it usually improves as the day goes on.
Yesterday day 17 I felt like I was back at square one, extremely anxious, panic attacks that kept me awake all night, high alert to every tiny noise.....just terrible. My stomach was grumbling like hunger pangs yet I had eaten some in the day! I’m losing faith this is going to work....are days as bad as these ‘normal’ as this stage? I was hoping for better results by now.....