Well, today is day two.
Yesterday I decided that I needed to at least give the Cit (as it seems to be commonly referred to) a try.
So I took 20mg yesterday lunchtime.
An hour later I felt sick... my stomach knotted and I thought uh oh. I hate being sick. I also had this horrible medicinal taste in my mouth (similar to the taste you get when you've just been hit with a general anaesthetic). And my mouth felt like cotton wool. And I felt wierd.
I had some herbal tea & honey and felt slightly less queazy.
As the hours wore on I became increasingly dopey.
Spent the whole evening on the sofa and watched Channel 4 right through until midnight.
Went to bed and lay there until 3am before finally dropping off to sleep.
Woke at around 8am this morning feeling kind of hazy but not too bad.
Decided that my body took too much of a hit yesterday, so today I took half a tablet (10mg) at 11am instead of a whole tablet at 1pm like I did yesterday. (I figured that I'd start off gently like others have done here and took it slightly earlier in the day in the hope that I get to sleep better tonight.) I'll tell the doc what I've done tomorrow.
Overall, the experience wasn't as bad as I feared but still pretty scary. I did start to panic a bit when I first started to feel sick but felt a bit easier again when it passed and the sedative effect started to kick in.
I'll see how today goes with 10mg and will post back later.
Have a good day everyone.