Coming off citalipram success stories?!

[Amelia1909]

Has anyone got a success story about coming off citalipram???

Have been taking 20mg for 8 years and in Jan cut to 10mg , then 5mg and stopped completely about a week ago.

I know I am suffering the withdrawal effects but I really want to try and see how I feel completely off it. Did anyone else do this and how long did the side effects last? Each day I feel more exhausted and almost hung over.
Thanks in advance for any advice xx

Citalopram even!

I had to come off it due to side effects and they persisted for about 6 weeks after I stopped.

Wow really?? Did you feel totally exhausted??

Utterly shattered. I was falling asleep on the bus on my way in to work. I was taking a paracetamol plus and a can of Coke every morning for the caffeine hit! That didn't last that long though, the weird dreams and hallucinations lasted the whole 6 weeks. Had strange dreams on paroxetine too. Ironically the one I'm on now, Amitriptyline, is the one I get on better with out of them all and it's the one my GP initially refused to prescribe due to the side effects.

I came off it at the same time as I went on a sporting activity holiday, with 6 hours fairly intense exercise each day. I think the exercise really helped with symptoms.

I found all my emotions became much bigger for a while, (good ones included) and I had some of those brain zap things, but not too bad at all, really.

NB the first time I tried to come off didn't go so well and this was the second attempt.

Thanks for your comments at least what I'm feeling seems to be 'normal' then! Did you feel really hot all the time ?! Temp hot not as in oh la laaaaaa!

No but I did have cold sweats so probably normal too.