I think my citalopram has stopped working

[citalopram]

I have been taking 20mg of citalopram for about a year now and I've been doing very well on it. A couple of weeks ago I started feeling unwell and I think it's stopped working. I did put the change down to pmt but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm very upset and panicking because I've felt so well on it and I have really got my life back. What am I going to do now? They can't prescribe any higher a dose than 20mg because anything higher can cause a problem with the heart so my 20mg is it. I will have to change to a different drug if it has stopped working.

Has anybody ever experienced this and what happened? I was so happy to be free from depression for the last year. I'm terrified that that was that and it's all over and I'm destined to be depressed forever. I have been having cbt which has also helped but I need these antidepressants. I feel so flat, irritable, bad tempered, listless and despondent

I have to go to bed now and I'm at work tomorrow so if anybody answers I'm not ignoring you. Will see thread tomorrow afternoon

Hi Citalopram, a similar thing happened to me last week. I had been taking fluoxitine 20mgs since sept last year. I noticed when I went to pick up a recent script the pharamcist gave me a different type- still fluoxitine but not prozac! he gave me the generic brand not the trade name that i must have gotten used to!It was about seven to ten days in I noticed I was feeling like i had before starting prozac- low mood, irritability, waking up in the night.. anyway to cut a long story short i did get a new script and went to usual chemist this time and although i didnt get the prozac- lily make I got ones i def had before and now day three into taking them am feeling a lot better! Im not sure if its pychosmatic as every one tells e that all fluoxitine is the same- all i know is i dont want that brand again as for me at least it did not! work.. Could something similar have happened with you?

Is there something wrong with your heart? Asking because you say 'the' heart.

If nothing is wrong with you, the safe dose has been reduced from 60mg to 40mg, not to 20!

Oh, God, yes I have been given a different type (generic). I did notice a few brain shocks just after I'd started on it but didn't think anything of it. I have noticed that some months I'm better than others and did wonder if the brands had something to do with it.

The best ones I have had come in a small red box. I might ask at the pharmacy tomorrow as I don't feel well at all. I've started waking up at night as well.

I don't have a problem with my heart I just heard that they can't prescribe higher doses of citalopram any more because of the risk.

I'm going to the pharmacy tomorrow and if necessary the gp for another script. I feel like absolute shite.

Hi brand can affect me too and Ive been using long term, 30 mg and doc hasn't mentioned a risk re heart at all. Have you tried counselling alongside it? I suffered symptoms again after 4 years and then took counselling course - best thing I ever did. Changed my life. Get to docs and double check everything ok. Hope you feel better soon

This is interesting. I was on cit for 3 years and was doing really well. About a year/18m into it I started to feel less well. I stuck it out for another 18m and then stopped. Was doing Ok but not a year down the line I'm back on it. Wondering now if it was a brand change that made the initial difference.

Hope you get it sorted OP.