Hi, I've only been taking citalopram for 2 days. I went to the gp about chronic pain I have been experiencing for the last year and got sent away with an antidepressant. I am depressed, mostly because of how my life has been affected by the pain, but anyway thought I'd try it. I wasn't too happy that it was what the gp prescribed me but she wants me to see her again in 2 weeks to check how I'm getting on with it and she said she'd put in a referral to a rhematologist about the other symptoms.
I've taken it twice now. On the first day my heart started pounding and I felt sick and then I fell asleep shortly after. It was the afternoon. So yesterday I took it before going to bed. I did fall straight asleep but I slept in this morning and didn't wake up until 9.10am! I felt like a zombie when I first woke and I had obviously missed the school run. I rang the school and said ds has a bad headache. He is 5. I'm terrified he's going to say something and I'll get into serious trouble. I'm sure it was because of the medication. I've never been great at getting up but have never missed school or work before. I feel like the worst mother in the world not just for missing school but also for lying. But I couldn't say I had slept in.
I feel incredibly agitated. I can't relax. I am worried to death about the school thing and my heart keeps racing. I also woke up with an awful headache that I assume is connected to the citalopram and painkillers have dulled it a little but it isn't really going away. I keep feeling like I'm going to be sick though I haven't been and I have pains in my stomach. I don't know how much of these feelings of anxiety and panic are from my fear over the school situation or whether they're all affects of the medication. Either way, I just feel so awful. I wasn't happy when the doctor gave me antidepressants when I wanted help for pain, and now I feel like this. I don't know what I wanted from this thread but I needed to speak.