Start of week 4 on citalopram

[maggiemuff]

Hi, can anyone help with this. Feb 2017 I started fluoxetine, this was the first time I had taken an AD. It worked great, I was on 60mg, but around September that year it just seemed to stop working. I was moved to sertaline and ended up on a 150mg dose. I had really bad night sweats and diarrhoea however I would have stayed on them if I had of thought they were working.

The doctor has now changed to to citalopram. I weaned off the sertaline and took 10mg of citalopram for 2 weeks, then I took a week at 20mg. I am now starting my 2nd week at 20mg. At a few points last week I thought they were working but the past few days I'm not so sure.

I am so disappointed, I never wanted to take anti depressants but when I agreed to try the fluoxetine and it worked it was great. It was like I should have done it years ago, but it just seemed to stop working after 7 months.

Is there any chance the citralopram might still start working at this stage or should I change again to try and find something that worked like fluoxetine did?

Sorry this is long winded. I just want to find something that works again, it was such a relief when I started the fluoxetine.

Hi, don't know if it's a huge help, but it took about 3 weeks for me to notice any difference when I started to take citalopram. I started on 20mg.
Hope you're feeling better soon.

Give it another couple of weeks -and then return to your GP if no improvement -you can up the dose of your AD. But normally I would say at least 4 weeks.

Thanks. Hopefully I will some changes this week. I hate the thoughts of having to swap to a new one for the forth time and then the wait to see if it helps.