When i came off citalopram i felt....

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Bored! I stopped taking it 5 days ago and i have just felt uncontrollably bored. Please share your coming off experiences.

Almost pre menstrual, shaky, flu like symptoms and unwell. Only lasted about a week though.

When you say bored...do you mean "flat"?

I'm not sure. I just feel really fed up with my life, and feel like everything is annoying me and boring me. I know i didnt feel like this before i stopped tajing them, so i am asuming its a side effect?

hmm, do you think that you are perhaps not ready? have you weaned them?

Just saying that becuase you are experiencing emotional perhaps phsychological effects rather than physical....

Maybe go back to your GP and discuss this..

Erm i didnt wean, just stopped abruptly. I was only on 10mg though, so am not entirely sure how to wean from that. I did really want to stop. They were having undesireable physical effects when i was taking them.

Im feeling really bloated now, did anyone else feel this?

You should never just stop taking anti-depressants abruptly. You could try half a tablet a day or one every other day. You really should have discussed with your GP - it can make your symptoms worse.

I've been coming off 20mg for the last few weeks. I'm down to 5mg now, feel a bit PMTy but not too bad.

I did go from 20mg to 10 but felt really dizzy so went back to coming off 5mg at a time.

I'm on 10mg doctor told me one every other day for 2 weeks, then one every three days etc. I'm on my second week of one every two days and so far I've had no withdrawal.

I was very very silly and decided to abruptly stop taking my 40mg citalopram tablets once... I have never known vertigo like it, every time moved my eyes - I couldn't look left and right to cross a road! And I kept getting weird fizzy numbness in my head, like a concussion. I felt very poorly and very for being so silly. The withdrawal symptoms took a few weeks to go away and then I was alright, but it's not something I would recommend to anyone!

Rough! was really flu like for almost 2 weeks. Totally back to normal (physically) after that tho

I have been trying to reduce from 40mg to 30mg and I feel shit, really really down. Pissed off with everyone and everything! See your doc and wean off them slowly as even 10mg is hard to come off.