Hi all. Hoping for some advice and support. I was taking citalopram for 12 weeks until a week ago when GP changed my prescription. I had been struggling to get a decent night's sleep and was having really vivid dreams - they weren't particularly distressing but I was finding that I was confusing what I'd done in real life with what I'd dreamt. Anyway, GP told me to start mirtazapine 15mg next day and stop the citalopram straight away. Since then I have been feeling absolutely horrendous; dizzy, spaced out, breathless and really, really irritable. I feel so angry with everyone and everything and I'm frightened that I'm only just managing to keep a hold on it. I feel so bad because today I was so stressed out in the supermarket that I told my eight year old ds that I'd break his arm if he pushed his brother again but the worst thing was that I really felt that I wanted to do it.
DH says that I should go back to gp but I obviously can't do that till tuesday cos its bank holiday. I'm reluctant to because I don't want him to tell me to go back on the citalopram as I feel that I've already suffered a week's worth of withdrawal and dont want to go through it again. I'm also unsure how to tell which are effects from stopping the citalopram and which are from the mirtazapine.
I'm so sorry this is such a long post but I feel at the end of my tether. Can anyone reassure me that I can get through this without actually killing someone!? I just feel so awful.
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effects of citalopram withdrawal
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moodyblue · 29/08/2009 19:41
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