Hi all - thought about name changing but to hell with it! :)
Hope some of you can help ....
Have read quite a lot on here about people taking Citrapram (sp?) but am just wondering if any of you have experience of taking Cipralex?
I was prescribed Citrapram by my GP but they really really didn't agree with me so I came off them (on my own stupidly without consulting GP). This was in May time approx. Things progressively got worse and worse until it got to the point where I simply didn't want to wake up anymore.
My GP (a different one than before, though same surgery)prescribed me 10mg of Cipralex back in September.
It really didn't seem to be making any difference to the way I felt at all. I went back to GP at start of Dec and she upped the dose to 20 mg per day.
I took 20mg a day for about 2 weeks and honestly felt if I was going mental. I was so forgetful, so tired, and was just dead inside - like a walking zombie. I felt this was becoming noticeable to others (at work etc - my depression is something I normally try to hide from others and have a position at work with quite a bit of responsibility - 20mg just seemed to turn me into someone whose brain cells had disappeared and I seemed 'vacant') .
I honestly felt as if I was on the verge of a breakdown so I reduced the dose back down to 10mg about a fortnight ago. I now feel OK-ish.
10mg seems to have little effect on me - 20mg seemed to turn me into the living dead.
Anyone else on here in cipralex and, if so, what are your experiences? What dose do you take?
TIA :)
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Cipralex - any experiences?
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FaffTastic · 28/12/2010 02:15
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