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Started Cilatopram...symptoms aagh!

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Catrin · 17/08/2012 09:55

About to take day 2 of Cilatopram. Feel vile. Will today's make me feel even worse? I feel completely wiped out and I have to take dd out for the day and am concerned the symptoms will be even more sever today. Help!

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YommyMommy · 17/08/2012 10:10

Hey, I have no experience of AD's...are you taking them for anxiety??

Are they making you feel ill or more anxious?

Could you cancel ur day out until you are feeling better? N just b kind to yourself today with movies and goodies :) x x

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Catrin · 17/08/2012 10:19

Thank you for your reply.
Anxiety and (apparently) OCD. Not feeling terribly anxious, just shaky, exhausted, light headed. Have to go out, planned for ages with friend who is not local, so travelling to meet us and on way already.

Film tonight good plan, probably all I can manage! Thank you.

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YommyMommy · 17/08/2012 11:57

Well I hope ur day goes well!!

I too have anxiety and have decided recently that I need AD's, been fighting to get better long enough now and just want to feel like my old self! I have an appointment for docs at end of month so hopefully will get something then!

X x

cocolepew · 17/08/2012 12:07

my symptons only lasted a couple of days, hope you feel better .

sarah876 · 17/08/2012 12:30

I just come back from the doctors and have taken my first 10 mg of Cilatopram. I am very anxious about taking them as all other attempts of taking antidepressants have failed after a couple of days. I'm in a sad state , i known that I need help as I've been low for many years and just coping but i've had enough....I want my life to be happy and to have happy thoughts, making plans and seeing the joy in being a parent. We have all been through so much and i owe it them but its just so hard! I hope they work for you and for me, I'm just not looking forward to the first two weeks because I know I get side effects.
I'm right there with you!

yellowraincoat · 17/08/2012 12:31

It definitely took me a little bit to get over the side effects - maybe as long as 2 weeks if I recall correctly. It was worth it though, because they did work.

I felt totally drained of energy, unable to concentrate. Horrible.

YommyMommy · 17/08/2012 12:36

Good luck Sarah,

Please keep posting and let us know how you are!! X x

sarah876 · 17/08/2012 12:39

yeah I will just wish i didnt feel so sad all the time x

YommyMommy · 17/08/2012 12:46

Hopefully once the AD's kick in ur mood will lift?

X x

sarah876 · 17/08/2012 13:04

i'm hoping :-)

NanaNina · 17/08/2012 14:01

It's very eary days Sarah and you can't hope for any benefits by day 2. I hope your GP told you that you could feel worse better you got better and they take 2/3 weeks to kick in - somtimes up to 4 weeks. Stick with them and don't whatever you do stop taking them.

I notice that you say in an earlier post that all other attempts at taking ADs failed in a couple of days. This should tell you that you must stick with them, even with bad side effects, because you quite often feel those, before the benefit. Quite often the side effects wear off after a few weeks. Also you are on a low dose as GPs mostly start you off on a low dose and raise it if necessary later on.

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Catrin · 17/08/2012 18:38

Many thanks for the replies.
Sarah - I know exactly what you mean on all counts, although this is my first go at the Ads. Have to say, after having felt rubbish yesterday and then this morning, the side effects were much less noticeable today. I did try and eat more before taking it today; I don't know if that helped. The nausea was much more manageable and I don't feel as thick headed and dopey.

Hope you have success this time round, worth keeping on with them, as if you feel like me pre them, then surely we can't feel as bad in a while with them??

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CanoeSlalom · 17/08/2012 19:57

Wikipedia says "Citalopram is also a mild antihistamine, which may be responsible for some of its sedating properties." Not sure if your body gets used to this or whether it's considered to be part of the helpful action of the drug?

DancesWithWoolsEnPointe · 17/08/2012 20:12

My sister takes hers before bed, rather than in the morning, as they wipe her out.

cocolepew · 17/08/2012 21:44

I took my in the evening too, it made me too tired if I took it in the mornings.

sarah876 · 20/08/2012 17:44

Hi its been day 4 now and to be honest I was expecting the worst, but its been ok , a bit achy and tired but nothing i havent felt before, what i was concerned about before when I had tried them was my excitability , i just got hyper and i didnt like it ( im one of those laid back kind of people). My emotions have been stable ( maybe its because ive decided to sort myself out ?) and for two days I havent been thinking about all those horrible imaginary situations that you dream up in your head and torture yourself all day long with!.
Im looking forward to just being stable , on the same level for more then one day, hate the downs and lows.
Ive been taking mine at lunch time, feel a bit tired but nothing i cant handle, think if i took them at night i would dream up some weird sh*t, lol
How are you getting on Catrin?

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Catrin · 21/08/2012 22:37

Well, end of day 5 and symptoms have mostly settled down. Taking mine at lunchtime too. Am very yawny all afternoon and feel like I could sleep, but irritatingly am not sleeping terribly well at night. I know some people have said upthread they take theirs at night, so maybe I'll try that. The nausea has mostly gone, although no appetite at all (not such a bad thing!).
Interestingly, I have no road rage! Very unlike me...
I'm glad you're sticking with them Sarah - hopefully the hard bit is done now and it will get more normal from now

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sarah876 · 27/08/2012 12:53

Hi Catrin, I'm on them just over a week now and I think theyre working! Havent had any obsessive thoughts for a few days now and havent been teary at all, got to go back to the docs wednesday to get some more but for the time being im sticking with 10 mg. Glad they are working for you too Catrin , I'm seeing how I fair when the dreaded monthly turns up x

2dolly2 · 28/08/2012 10:12

Hello ... I am new to mumsnet.. but thought it would be good to chat to people going through the same things as me. I am also on Citrapram, and have been on them for a year and a half... i was such a mess when i first started taking them, that to be honest i cant remember any side effects!! but that said i certainly felt like i could face the world a little bit more. I have recently tried to come off them and have failed...(i am now back on them) .... i feel a little bit like I have failed myself as thought i should have been ready to come off them, but i obviously wasn't.... i cried all the time, and was so short tempered and my children got the brunt of it, which then in turn made me feel like a terrible mum. Being a mum is certainly one of the hardest jobs in the world and i have to say i never expected it to feel like this. Its really good to hear that other people have the same feelings!! To an onlooker i have 2 very good natured and loving children, so why do i find it so hard ! ?

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