Hi folks.
Been coming of citalopram for a few weeks now after being on it for 3months, this is with a view to moving onto dosulipin, but i was going to consider trying a few weeks without any ADs as my CBT starts at the beginning of january.
I was on 20MGs of cit for about 2 / 2.5 months and have lowered my dose slowly over the past 3 or 4 weeks, going down by 5MGs at a time and im currently on 5MGs and have been for 6 days.
Havent had any real side effects to speak of, by this i mean i didnt feel any worse than i did on 20MGs and everything seemed to be going fairly smoothly. This was up untill boxing day evening where i got really anxious but not about anything in particular, just had a knot in my stomach, i took 2MGs of valium and then forced myself to go out and see some friends, this got rid of the anxiety but everything didnt feel real from there on out.
(Everything didnt feel real on 20MGs either but not this unreal)
Since then i have woken up every morning with high anxiety levels and its been a real struggle to get outta bed and get on with the day, coupled with this everything doesnt feel real at all, am getting anxious that im going to start hallucinating and lose a grip, keep telling myself that im not but it doesnt seem to help a lot, damn anxiety.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone else had had this coming off of cit?? Wanna figure out if this is just normal as im coming off of the cit or whether this is caused by underlying anxiety that isnt going to go away once my body adjusts to the lack of cit.
I know im thinking about this far too much and just need to go with it but damn its hard lol.
/Pete