Citalopram-10mg having a real effect. Do I need to go up to 20mg?

[BigBirthdayGloom]

My gp prescribed 20mg citalopram last Monday and said to take 10mg for a week then go up to 20mg. I've had anxiety and depression stmptons probably for years but its been loads worse and I've not functioned well for the last few months.
Honestly, I am amazed and delighted. My fuse was so short you hardly needed to light it for me to explode, I overanalysed everything with a particular focus in my older dd and I was weepy and unfocused and just living for the parts of the day when I could just lie down in a darkened room or watch telly.
I have become calm, able to take looking after the dc in my stride and feel calm and happy for the first time in years. I am still daunted by my house but I have been able to do little bits and it is in a state because we've had builders in (I think probs with them was what finally made me properly ill).
I am perhaps still a bit depressed-or maybe I'm just naturally lacking in get up and go, but I am wondering if I actually need the full 20 mg or whether I should stick to the 10mg. I'll ask gp about it on Monday, but I'm just wondering about it over the weekend and wondered if anyone had any thoughts or experience to share.

I would say my symptoms are very mild but I'm on 20mg and love the stuff. It turns me from a short tempered shouty witch to a far more chilled person.

Oh-yes-I was the shouty witch too until last Monday! I fear I may be horizontal and singing "I'm a little pixie" on 20mg . Although I do know that's not really how it works, I have felt very sleepy in the last week and if I were much sleepier, it might not matter that I wasn't shouting as I wouldn't be very productive at all! But the side effects get less after the first two weeks, I've heard so maybe I'll wake up a bit. Plus I've been kept awake a fair bit by my poorly toddler which must be part of the sleepiness.

I"m on 30mg but 20mg also keeps me sane.

If I stop taking it I become the worst tempered person in the whole world.

Forgot to say, if 10mg does it for you i'm sure your Dr will be happy for you to stay on that dose, but definitely check with her at the next appointment.

So-spoke to gp and she would like me to go up to 20mg. Apparently, 10mg is the dose that they recommend as starting dose for anxiety, but depression needs 20mg to start getting to it. Luckily (!) I have both so it's 20mg tonight. I do trust it and if it kicks the depression into touch like it has the anxiety I'm all for it. Hope I don't get the nausea a d tiredness back with a vengeance. But even they are worth it I think.