Over the years I've been on Prozac, Seroxat and escitalopram, all seemed to work for me at the time. I had been off meds for about 9 months now but having reached an unbearable stage again with my panic & anxiety I decided to go back on.
On Friday I went to the docs and he prescribed me citalopram (I think he was confused becuse I told him escitalopram had worked well for me). I have started on 10mg.
Anyway, so far I am getting lots of side effects. I have not suffered side effects from the other meds I had been on, not sure why this is different...
Side effects so far include:
1. Very dry (and salty taste) in mouth
2. occasaionally feeling like it's hard to breath
3. seeing blobs of colour in the corner of my eyes (have seen a recent thread about this).
4. feeling spaced out
5. feeling a little paranoid, I was walking down the street trying to work out if people were looking at me
6. vivid dreams (when I take the pills near to bed time)
7. occasional hot/cold flushes
8. some shakes (but this could just be the anxiety)
Am hoping (as someone once suggested) that having a lot of side effects means that there is more chance the pills will work for me. Anyway, am hoping that they won't last much longer.
Any words of advice or encouragement would be good.
Thanks,
Dan